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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.20.25

April 20, 2025 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Happy Easter, bunny.

Great stuff is out on the streets today, whether you are wandering aimlessly through the city or touring with a sense of purpose. Street art continues to evolve, even as it repeats. Can anyone doubt that there is a more relevant artform that can be instantly responsive to current events and take the longer view?

The city’s buzzing with art this spring—start with these must-sees, in addition to hitting the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn and the Bronx and the local park and your neighbor’s tulip bed: At White Columns, Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3 offers a rare look at early graffiti culture through the artist’s archival photographs (whitecolumns.org). Over in Industry City, Brooklyn native Michael “Kaves” McLeer presents Brooklyn Pop – A Brooklyn Dream, an immersive homage to the borough’s style and swagger, complete with full-scale subway replicas and vintage ephemera (brooklynbuzz.com). At the Whitney, Amy Sherald’s American Sublime brings together nearly 50 of her portraits in a commanding solo show that focuses on Black life with quiet power and elegance (whitney.org). Meanwhile, the Guggenheim hosts Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, filling the iconic rotunda with more than 90 works exploring Black identity, masculinity, and emotional depth (guggenheim.org). And at the Brooklyn Museum, Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 celebrates the institution’s bicentennial with a wide-ranging exhibition that reflects its rich, complex legacy and commitment to representation (brooklynmuseum.org).

We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including Citty Kitty, Homesick, JerkFace, Eternal Possessions, Chupa, Android Oi, Staino, Masnah, Jaek El Diablo, Jay Diggz, Washington Walls, BC NBA, Busy, and Pytho.

Android Oi. Detail. For Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Android Oi. Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerkface updated his Micky Mouse for the 5th time. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty singing “Love Cats” by The Cure. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BC NBA. Detail. For Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BC NBA. Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jay Diggz. Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eternal Possessions takes on a public debate over the health and guardianship of talk show host Wendy Williams. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2025. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.14.23

May 14, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome friends! Shout out to Joey, owner of the Village Works bookstore, whose new location opens this weekend on St Marks Place in Manhattan. Friday night the river of people flooded the banks in this pantheon to New York culture, history, and stylish bravado – and special guests Homesick were in the house to welcome the hundreds of excited streetwise Gen Z’ers to flip through and ponder these curious paper things that you cannot scroll through or zoom in with your fingers, but which are strangely satisfying and enriching non-the-less. If anyone wonders if Covid decimated New York, you have to witness the throngs of people walking, running, riding through a beery haze on the weekend at St. Marks, to know that this city is in full effect, bro.

We say ‘bro’ in the hood way, not the privileged apathetic way – although both are intermingling in the LES right about now with Brooks Brothers boys in camel suits huffing up the sidewalk while a muscled spandexed guy with a six-foot set of wings on his back weaves through the street. It’s not that NY is so liberal, it’s that we really don’t care what your look like or who you’re doing it with – let’s have fun and hang out.

The pumping music from the bars in this neighborhood reflects this moment, of course, with two Mexican pop hits blasting out to the streets in many locations – Grupo Frontera x Bad Bunny’s hit “Un x100to” and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Solo.” A fusion of corridos, banda, urban music, trap, and reggaeton? Porque no? The popularity reflects the influence Latino culture has had on the youth this spring while old white men are busy militarizing the southern border and treating regular people like criminals for seeking a better life.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Dan Witz, Adam Fujita, Adam Fu, Winston Tseng, SacSix, Little Ricky, Roachi, Alicho Art, Chupa, Huetek, A Visual Bliss, Riisa Boogie, Ideal, Rezones, WEKUP, KIRSE, SMOR, Italo Causa, Georgia Violet, Jenna Leigh, and Never Satisfied.

Look a new rare Dan Witz in the wild!!!! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Memorial Wall. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jenna Leigh . A visual Bliss. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Calicho Art . Georgia Violet. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riiisa Boogie. Rezones. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KURSE. SMOR. IDEAL. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2023. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.13.22

November 13, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

One of the hardest weeks of our lives. But we’re still here to give you another posting of new shots of street art and graffiti on the streets. Thank you for your support, and thank God for the creative spirit that keeps us inspired, our cities alive, informed, and in-touch with the common person.

The so-called ‘Red Wave’ (red tsunami, red hurricane, etc.) didn’t materialize in the mid-term elections Tuesday despite the drumbeat on corporate media. On the other hand, the Democratic party can’t be too proud of their “squeaker” win – or their incremental moves to the corporate right for four decades. Nothing to sing and dance about.

Meanwhile, a large swath of previously middle-class people continues to slip into poverty every day – working 2, 3 jobs at a time and still not able to make ends meet. It is more obvious than ever in this modern age, there is no party run by the people.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Praxis, SRKSHNK, Lexi Bella, Homesick, Chupa, Ivanorama, Kimyon333, Sinclair the Vandal, Cramcept, SORE, Qzar, Lasak, Uwont, Aidz, Delae, SGVT, and NYC Kush Co. and Sean9Lugo.

Mobb Deep tribute by Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cramcept. Is it just us, or do we see mushrooms everywhere lately? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Praxis with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What a clown. Ivanorama (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UWONT. AIDZ. DELAE. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.20.22

March 20, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

It’s officially Spring here today – the Spring Equinox beginning in the Northern Hemisphere will be at 11:33 am. Outside of the city, away from the glare, people will be able to glimpse Mars, Saturn, and Venus. The geese have been heard honking on the river, kids have been heard screaming on the playground, aerosol cans have been heard spraying under the bridge.

We’re relieved to glimpse fresh creativity on the streets – a sure sign that people are responding to their lives in a productive visual expression. As citizens of the Precariat, the opportunity to offer unfiltered artistic expression often requires a gatekeeper to approve it. When you are a street artist, you regularly circumvent the taste-makers and the influencers, hoping to reach people directly on the street. This week we found a number of unfiltered images and messages on New York walls and felt like these works are just as fresh as crocus popping through the soil, just as relevant as the blooms pushing through branches on trees. Here we have new shots from Jersey City. These are signs of Spring!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Beau Stanton, UR New York, 1010, Chupa, Blaze, Melski, The Cupcake Guy, SAMO, Acro, Sory, Niceo, Mona Caron, Cheez.

1010 in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ACRO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ACRO opens a museum in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CHEEZ / ACRO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Melski in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Beau Stanton in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UR New York in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CHUPA in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mona Caron in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sory in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blaze in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mes / Jamoe Nab in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lady Bugs in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NiCEO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SAMO© in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.12.21

September 12, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Our hearts and minds are heavy and quiet this weekend as we contemplate the two decades and lost lives and liberties since September 11, 2001.

It’s impossible to know what the world would have looked like had those fateful events not taken place twenty years ago, and only a handful would have predicted that it would have been used as a springboard for more wars that cost more lives. As the country pulls out of Afghanistan so badly and obviously, a real examination of the soul is taking place. There is no real purpose served by trying to extricate the pain of loss locally from those sufferred globally as a result of the events of September 11th, except for us New Yorkers to reflect on how our city is forever changed. Thankfully, New Yorkers prove time and again that we are also forever determined to overcome and to come together.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring BAT, Below Key, BK Foxx, Chris RWK, Chupa, De Grupo, Early Riser NYC, Fumero, Futura, Hand Up, Manik, Modomatic, Naito Oru, Pope, Rezo, and Toofly.

Chris RWK in collaboration with Naito Oru. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bat, Manik, Pope, Chupa… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. September 2021. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.17.21

January 17, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Chupa, Elsie the Cowww, Gane, Gemma Gene, Kai, Li-Hill, Mr. Babby, Panic, Peachee Blue, Pork, Skewville, Sydney G. James, and Zexor.

Mr Babby for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Peachee Blue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elsie The Cowww for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gemma Gene for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. East River, NYC. January 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.27.16

March 27, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Happy Easter to the folks who are celebrating this day of Christ’s rise from the dead. The rest of ya’ll can just enjoy the Sunday roast dinner we made for you. Cousin Charlemagne has already eaten both the ears off his chocolate bunny and there are two eggs that have not been found during the hunt. Let’s look for them after we eat. Pass the scalloped potatoes please.

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring A Visual Bliss, Bang Bang Errol, Cash Cash RFC Crew, Chupa, CJ Fly, Dasic Fernandez, Geoffrey Carran, Jay Shells, Jesse A. Edwards, Joseph Acker, KLOPS, Kuma, LMNOPI, Lunge Box, Myth, Papoose, Rocko, Rowena Martinich, Sorick 21, Trifer, Wallplay, Willow, and Zimers.

Our top image: Rocko and Zimer painted this tribute to King Biggie Smalls back in October of 2015 for Spread Art NYC. We just hadn’t been able to flick it. So here it is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And speaking of Biggie Smalls, urban artist and lyric lover Jay Shells left this plaque just across the street recently. His unique campaign of placing original rap lyrics at the geographical spot they refer to has taken him to cities across the country. These new platters have just popped up like spring tulips. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI brings the street a new portrait of “a Haitian girl I met when I was in Port Au Prince in 2010.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Koch Brothers. Portrait by Joseph Acker – Prision ID #15967538. Mural by Willow. The Captured Project in conjuction with The L.I. S.A. Project. People in prison drawing people who should be. More information here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Film Friday: 07.03.15

July 3, 2015 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. NYC Subway from Paul Whitworth
2. Jet Martinez, Painter & Muralist
3. Monochrome: Sofles
4. Mutiny of Colours – Iranian Street Art Documentary
5. HULA paints “Imua”
6. Epic Rap Battle : Ninja Turtles V. Dudes of the Renaissance

BSA Special Feature: NYC Subway from Paul Whitworth

We start this week off with some home made subway train porn with a soundtrack by the Brazilian Girls singing in French. It’s a mesmerizing reverie with some good shots of 5 Ptz.

Jet Martinez, Painter & Muralist

American painter and muralist Jet Martinez from Oakland talking about his show last month in Denver – his influences from Mexican culture, folk arts, and contemporary culture.

Monochrome: Sofles

Great writer of course. That’s why you’ll endure the advertising for the paint company here.

Mutiny of Colours – Iranian Street Art Documentary

Take a look at this interesting project, and over-the-top special effects that are meant to be comedic, if not darkly reinforcing some stereotypes you may have. It’s not easy to make a documentary and this one is about a burgeoning scene in Iran, a country where the penalties for graffiti are draconian.

HULA paints “Imua”

Follow Hawaii born artist Hula on his surfboard as he paints “Imua”.

Epic Rap Battle : Ninja Turtles V. Dudes of the Renaissance

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. 
So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

~Steven Wright

Yo, did you see our piece on Owen Dippie’s new mural yesterday? Somebody sent us this epic rap battle between the masters of Renaissance painting and the cartoon action heroes of your childhood. Cowabunga dudes!

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.15.25
June 15, 2025
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June 12, 2025
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June 10, 2025
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.08.2025
June 8, 2025
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Windows Into Masao Gozu: A Reflection by Ted Riederer on the Art of Urban Memory
June 5, 2025
In the charged aftermath of 1960s protest movements, artists began taking their practices beyond galleries and into the streets, forging …Read More »
Tag Conference 2025: Remembering the Writers Who Wrote the City
June 3, 2025
After a landmark debut in Brooklyn in 2023, the Tag Conference returns to New York City this June with sharpened …Read More »
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.01.2025
June 1, 2025
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Love you to the moon, June! In New York yesterday, gamers marked the …Read More »