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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.26

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.26

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York has endured a week of choking smoke from Canadian wildfires, 98-degree (37°C) heat, and pounding summer thunderstorms. Today, the FIFA World Cup Final arrives, briefly transforming the city once again. Bars in Argentine and Spanish neighborhoods are overflowing with fans, an estimated 50,000 people will gather before giant screens in Central Park, and across the Hudson, 83,000 will pack MetLife Stadium. The match has also turned the region into a temporary diplomatic capital, drawing President Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Spain’s King Felipe VI, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Yet New York has a way of absorbing even the grandest spectacles. While the sporting euphoria fills many spaces, someone in Jackson Heights is comparing the price of canned beans and reaching for the store brand, another is watering tomatoes at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden on the Lower East Side, someone else is doing the week’s laundry at Ludlow Laundromat, while another is stretched out beside a rooftop pool in Williamsburg. As they say on Broadway, come hell or high water, the show must go on.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring CRKSHNK, Debt, Hops Art, IMK, JerkFace, Little Ricky, Makatron, Sara Lynne Leo, SOOBEK, and Worst Timer.

Mike Makatron for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jerkface gives his double Mickey a new look. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Talliah Lemper (photo © Jaime Rojo
ZOOT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A pretty prime spot, now occupied by ZOOTER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
At 39, Lionel Messi is expected to play his final World Cup match today as Argentina faces Spain in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final. It will be his third World Cup final and Trace Harris diefies him, while Degrupo reveals he’s cyborg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Then one day when the raccoon met a pigeon, and they knew that it was much more than a hunch…” Sara Lynne Leo / IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SOOBEK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Little Ricky (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK goes there. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The power of the state, inked on acid wash. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEBT keeps it tight, and on fire. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In memory of RONNIE. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOPS ART refreshes this memorial mural of DNICE AND CHUNK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WORST TIMER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC engulfed in smoke from Canadian wildfires. Summer 2026. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.12.26

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.12.26

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. We are following, with you and the rest of the world, the negotiations between Iran and the Trumpsters. We imagine that you cannot trust anything that comes from a foreign leader who said earlier in the week “a whole civilization will die tonight” in a social media post. Meanwhile, a 2-liter Coke is $4.10 at your local deli – about the same as a gallon of gas nationwide, and all young men 18-26 are going to be automatically registered for the draft. We’re trying to think of a clever joke to insert here, but nothing is coming up.

70s/80s NYC train writer Fab 5 Freddy has been on a book tour tied to a new memoir, “Everybody’s Fly” out this spring, re-centering his role as a connector between uptown graffiti writers, the downtown art world of the 1980s, and his early hip-hop media crossover in the 90s. Meanwhile, nobody is doing trains today, as rooftops and rappelling are the current popular practices in graffiti in Brooklyn and Queens, with names like Notice + Rams (MSK), Qzar, Vods, Timer, Sokem, Sickpay, and Dase circulating again for getting up—names you’ll recognize mixed with newer hands. And of course, the murals are starting to come out in force; private, community-led, and corporately sponsored.

Here are some new shots we caught this week on New York streets, featuring Eternal Possessions, Shev Lunatic, BESRK, IMK, El Avo, STOP, CRKSHNK, DEBT, FCM, Jenna Morello, Damsel, and Charm

Frank Ape (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BESRK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Avo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
STOP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEBT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FCM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jenna Morello (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Damsel (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Damsel. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Damsel (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CHARM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Film Friday: 07.03.15

BSA Film Friday: 07.03.15

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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

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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

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!

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