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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.16.23

April 16, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here’s to New York, which we love more than ever – Especially when yahoos come to our fair city and try to trash us and spread lazy untruths about crime and smear us in a hundred ways. Look, my cousin Harold may pick on his younger sister Jicama because of her braids or her attempt to dance with her dumb friends on TikTok, but if you say an unkind word about her he will smack you right into next week. That’s how we feel about New York.

Oddly inarticulate dumbos like Margerine Blather Green and Mike “Mother” Pence might better stay back in Walmart, or wherever they were born. Do they have schools out there? Or were those burned down when they were burning books? When you are ready to tell the truth about our crime rate and quit dog-whistling about all the Jews and blacks and queers we have here, maybe we’ll give you tickets to see “Wicked”. Right after that you can hit the Olive Garden and the M&Ms store – and then you have to leave.

“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” said Tennyson. You’re welcome. Also, his fancy turns to thoughts of sex. The same applies to young women, of course, but Tennyson was obviously sexist. This also applies to pigeons, two of whom are currently making awkward, chaotic, scuffling, fluttering overtures toward one another and cooing softly on the scaffolding outside my apartment window right now.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: CRKSHNK, Below Key, Degrupo, Homesick, Calicho Art, Habibi, Le Crue, Lasak, Cloudy is Here, Gina Minichino, They It Forward, Channin Fulton, Dragon Fly, Gert Robijns, Jozzy Camacho, Nandos, Mini Mantis Art, and Pablo West.

Gina Minichino. And that’s for you MTG. It’s saying something that we New Yorkers have more sympathy for the fierce NYC rats than we have for you. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Harold Hunter piece by DeGrupo (Hat tip to B. Neuman) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Assistant to Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.26.23

March 26, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York is coming alive as spring approaches – and there is a lot of new graffiti and street art suddenly. We are also awash in news that keeps everyone jumping! The international-soon-to-be-national-bank crisis that is underway, the possible (likely) imposition of CBDC’s in its wake, the BRICs alliances building and de-dollarization of the world economy, the US funding of war in Ukraine, the attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by the same actors, the pending candidacy and/or arrest of NYC native Donald Trump, the non-transitory inflation rate that is outpacing our wages, creeping facial recognition software and cameras into every part of our culture without our permission, the total capture of our news outlets… .

On the good news side, our crime rate has been dropping a lot – even though dunderheads like Mike Mother Pence says we’re having a “crime wave.” Ya’ll just better educate yourselves – New Yorkers are a pain in the arse and are quick to argue about stupid things, but we also like credit for our crime rate dropping, please. Also, we like our new tulips and daffodils and pretty birds singing in the trees. Thank you.

And now, onto our new selections of fabulous graffiti and street art for your pleasure.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Louis Masai, Praxis VGZ, Degrupo, Jorit, Phetus88, Hektad, Qzar, Hugo Gyrl, Jim Tozzi, Toe Flop, Jappy Agoncillo, Tukios Art, BlackStar, Rocking Bones, and Dana van Vueren.

Burt, I barely knew thee. Jim Tozzi in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hugo Gyrl with previous work by Amanda Wong. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit in collaboration with Tukios Art pay tribute to BlackStar. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit in collaboration with Tukios Art pay tribute to Muhammad Ali. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit pays tribute to Lauryn Hill. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit pays tribute to Bayard Rustin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jappy Agoncillo pays tribute to Michelle Yeoh, who just won the Best Actress Academy Award this week for her role in the movie that won Best Movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. The despair, disorientation, and absolute clarity of this movie make it a fitting emblem for our times. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Louis Masai lectures everyone about their behavior. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified collaboration (photo © Jaime Rojo)

HEKTAD hanging from hearts (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. March 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.12.23

February 12, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

How are you feeling, friends? This month “Beyond the Streets” is opening at Saatchi Gallery in London, Risk is receiving a lifetime achievement award in Miami, and yet another Banksy show is opening in New York. Also, there will be a lot of kissing on Tuesday, so you may want to prepare yourself to pucker up.

Some kind of big game today we guess. Happens every year about this time – the streets will be empty this afternoon as people will be inside their homes, gathered around their screens, eating buffalo wings, pigs-in-a-blanket and tater tots with family and friends. Happy World Series everybody!

Meanwhile, the Chinese are flying balloons over the US, spying. Shocking. Who else does this remind you of?

New York street art is heavy with pop icons, pop psychology, and popular culture in this week’s collection.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: SacSix, Sara Lynne Leo, Degrupo, Eye Sticker, Stickman, Ollin, Jorit, Steve the Bum, and Kir One.

Sara Lynne-Leo is completely fed up with your s**t…(photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit tribute to Malcolm X. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit tribute to KRS-One American Rapper, Hip Hop master, and Bronx native. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SacSix again hi-jacks an image from popular culture and reworks it with some color, spatters, and drips. Here we have the Lone Ranger, with a face like Alec Baldwin – a reference to his gun troubles. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Poor Francis’s been left in the cold by those nasty backstabbers in The Vatican. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You have been put on notice girls… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Mushrooms keep popping up on the streets, just like mushrooms… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Degrupo features Andrew Tate as a spotted pink panther on New York streets. Alleged to be a misogynistic influencer and social pariah, he and his brother are currently cooling their heels behind bars for “organized crime, human trafficking, and rape“. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.18.22

September 18, 2022 Artists

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Hasidim schools are reported to fleece the public and ignore the kids, A 10-year-old Syrian refugee towers over visitors in Times Square, Afropunk returns to Brooklyn in full force, and you must be 21 to buy whipped cream. Other than that, New York is completely normal as usual.

No wonder we have the weirdest street art and you can’t explain half of it. Embrace the chaos, people, and ride it like a surfboard.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Modomatic, Degrupo, Pear, Server Up, Dzel, Ergot, OH!, Werox, and Forte.

Tags flying freely under this expansive space under the bridge. Do you know which one? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billion Dollar Club (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Your boys Bezos and Guliani lurking and ready to surprise you. Degrupo, Dzel and friends (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Johnny Depp is rather green and intuitive, as depicted by Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Possibly a reference to the Nas song, this slogan by an unidentified artist for us, but maybe you know who? The pieces below have been previously published on BSA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Modomatic on the left with an unidentified artist on the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Server Up and friends (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.14.22

August 14, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

The rain hasn’t been coming around much this summer, so we begin the postings with a dreamy sequence from Dan Kitchener and his muse walking with an umbrella. Good to see so much quality art in the streets this summer. Things may be difficult in many ways when it comes to life in this city, but the vibe on the streets is still rockin’ it.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: SacSix, Degrupo, Sara Lynne-Leo, Dan Kitchener, Doves, IMK, @2easae, GanoWon, Your Camera is a Weapon, and Habibi.

Dan Kitchener in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Degrupo and 2Esae. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Your Camera Is A Weapon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Summer 2022, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.31.22

July 31, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

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The city is now under a Monkeypox state of emergency thanks to a declaration by our state governor as of yesterday. Also jujitsu triumphs over random public punching, New York City children would still want to play Nintendo and Gameboy in the event of a nuclear attack, and we actually have a lower crime rate than the 80s/90s – contrary to narratives of bedlam and hoopla in the streets of Gotham.

However, there do appear to be more sharks around this summer – and not just your cousin Melvin and his buddies at the pool hall. Ah, New York, your grizzled, gritty exterior hides such a fascinating crushed-velvet heart beating inside…

We’re mainly happy that it’s not a thousand degrees on the streets this weekend, a welcome relief to the heatwave. Ice cream, anyone?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Faile, Stikman, Sticker Maul, Degrupo, Homesick, Cone, and Ked.

Houston/Bowery Wall continues its organic summer show… definitely not on a hiatus folks. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Beavis Trump with a little splash of self-tanner by Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rapper Birdman is transforming into the superhero by Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Degrupo goes geometric. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Met and the Ked (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stop All Wars ~please! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.10.22

July 10, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Abortion. Ukraine. Bitcoin. Guns. NFTs.

These are topics/themes that street artists are addressing this week in New York – pretty much wherever you go. It looks like an uptick in activism, often with a sense of humor. Can we make a song with these words? Somebody please tie these topics together and make a tidy summary. Thank you.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Raddington Falls, Hek Tad, Degrupo, CP Won, Albertus Joeph, Madame Restell, Mike King, Jason Ackerman, Trippin Ape Tribe, Eternal Possessions, and Lask Art.

Death To Church + State Abortion Forever (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Madame Restell by Eternal Possessions. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CP Won for East Village Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Houston/Bowery Wall has a new tenant. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.03.22

July 3, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

It’s 4th of July weekend here, a patriotic holiday that marks the US independence. This year the overarching oft-repeated phrase is that America is more polarized than ever, perhaps on the verge of a civil war. But really? Where is this theme coming from? Is someone trying to con us into being deeply distrustful of each other and angry? Does anyone gain by making us fight?

We see New Yorkers, who are some of the most diverse and varied lot you are likely to ever find, treating each other daily with fairness; giving each other more space than ever to be who we are. We walk into restaurants, museums, buses, stores, laundromats, delis, offices, gymnasiums, parks – and usually find people being considerate, warm, respectful of differences, more inclusive than ever. New York proves time and again that people WANT to get along, and we DO get along with each other despite our huge differences, because we really have more things in common. That’s not rhetoric or glossing things over; that’s daily experience in this big weird melting pot of beautiful New York City.

Thanks to all the street artists who keep bringing it and sharing it.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Praxis, Gane, HOACS, Degrupo, Such, King Baby, Nemze, L.A. Hope Dealer, MFK, Renda Writer, Peek, and RB.

Unidentified artist (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

“Jesus is coming. Look busy.” Unidentified artist (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Isn’t this just a logo? Are graffiti tags and pieces just logos as well? Discuss. Such (photo © Jaime Rojo)

If public space can be appropriated for corporations to put their message, can you do it also? Such (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Birds understand abstract concepts. We all know this. Unidentified artist (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.08.22

May 8, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Constant rain for days, but the street art is blooming, baby! As are the riotous news waves about the Supreme Court, abortion laws, the efficacy of the vaccine, the ridiculous/tone deaf Met Ball, the new electric bikes just released by Citi, a rise in anti-semitism in New York, the legalization of weed, the 60 Collective 3 show in Dumbo, Swoon’s new “Sanctuary” Project, Elon Musk buying Twitter, a virtual unknown winning the Kentucky Derby, and Meghan McCain selling only 244 copies of her new book. Who is she again?

Nevermind, we’re back on the streets where we belong, tracking the exciting new directions it is taking us.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Jason Naylor, INSA, Sticker Maul, Stikman, Degrupo, Diva Dogla, Mike Raz, Corn Queen, Jorit, Eric John Eigner, Smet Sky Art, Bad Boi, O. Grey, Steven Paul Judd, Katie Merz, and Delphinoto.

Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jason Naylor. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist targets increasing censorial actions by social media platforms (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Degrupo lionizes Zelinsky as transformer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman embeds with Ukraine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Raz & Smet Sky Art sing the praises of our beloved city (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kiowa/Choctaw artist Steven Paul Judd hails from Oklahoma but appears to have roamed ayonder to NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street artist Jorit celebrates Italian football coach and former player Andrea Pirlo for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

INSA. Our guess is that this piece was almost completed but the rain prevented him from finishing it. Still, we are happy to see this British artist in NYC. We’ll go back to see what details we are missing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Katie Merz. You Are Not Alone for East Village Murals. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Delphinoto paints @Pontifex “in solidarity with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si Action Platform – the Vatican’s response to the ecological & economic crisis.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2022. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.27.22

February 27, 2022 Artists

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Just as we were starting to feel a sense of relief that Covid is letting go of us….

Russia has invaded Ukraine. Not only is this a horror for Ukraine, this elective aggression may spread, resulting in retaliation.

If you want to help, we found this list from Fortune magazine:

Voices of Children
Voices of Children is a charitable foundation that focuses on addressing the psychological effect of armed conflict on children. Founded in 2015 in response to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Voices of Children provides art therapy, mobile psychologists, and individualized support to traumatized children. Individuals can donate through bank transfer, credit/debit card, or Apple Pay via its website.

The International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee has a long history of providing resources to refugees fleeing countries facing humanitarian crisis. Its leaders have responded to the situation in Ukraine by meeting with organizations in Poland and Ukraine to gauge the potential number of refugees and their needs so it can quickly mobilize and provide whatever assistance is needed. You can make a donation via its website.

CARE
International humanitarian organization CARE has set up an emergency Ukrainian Crisis Fund with the goal of providing immediate support for 4 million people. Donations will go toward providing Ukrainians with water, food, supplies, hygiene kits, immediate support and aid, and cash. CARE notes that its prioritizing supporting women, girls, families, and elderly.CARE makes it easy to donate via its website using PayPal or a credit card.

International Medical Corps
This nonprofit is focused on providing health-care services, psychosocial support, and care to citizens of countries dealing with disaster, disease, and conflict. It’s currently accepting monetary gifts that will go toward providing Ukrainians with better access to medical and mental health resources. You can make a donation via the website using a credit/debit card, bank transfer, or PayPal.

Project Hope
It’s currently sending medical supplies to Ukrainians. You can make donations via its website using a credit/debit card, bank transfer, or PayPal.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Captain Eyeliner, Sonni, CRKSHNK, Kobra, Robert Janz, Goog, Degrupo, Suso33, Leviticus, Niagra, Homesick, Allan Molho, YNWA, Divock Okoth Origi, Emune, Lancelot, and Outersource.

Degrupo. Hear the sound of hell Putin? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Niagara. Like the right to live in peace in your own country without fear of invasion, aggression, and authoritarian oppression. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sonni in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

YNWA. This football graffiti (soccer in the USA) refers to the Belgian star soccer player Divock Okoth Origi who plays as a forward for the Premier League club Liverpool. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Allan Molho tribute to the late Robert Janz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Winter 2022. Williamsburg Bridge, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images of The Week: 06.20.21

June 20, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Today is PRIDE DAY in NYC and Father’s Day in many parts of the world. Congratulations to us all, queer and/or fathers. We’re happy to show you what we’ve been finding as the spring now stretches into Officially Summer. At night in some neighborhoods, you’ll hear a smattering of fireworks as youthful hooligans are already lighting them – anticipate the 4th of July holiday. A sign of our crazy summer ahead; behold the bang-pop-ratatat-tat-bang-bang-swizzle-shizzle-pop now erupting regularly in empty lots and dead-end streets.

It’s great to see so many kids and youth and adults on bicycles now that the City has made myriad networks of safe pathways throughout the five boroughs. If we could get the police to hand out tickets to car drivers, even school bus drivers, sometimes using the bike lanes to circumvent others and put riders in danger.

The street art and graffiti scene are thick, and you don’t want to miss it here this time of year. While some complain that “vandalism” is reaching 1970s levels, many are happy to see a rotating display of artworks on the city skin at a time when so much of our local cultural and entertainment options have been killed or neutered. The institutional and commercial arts will all come back to New York, we have no doubt. Often, the renaissance begins in the streets.

Aliens, robots, skulls, femme Fatales, cats, cartoons, nationalism, existentialism – the new are runs the gamut and if it upsets the audience, it doesn’t run for long. Catch it while you can

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Acne, Adam Fujita, Almost Over Keep Smiling, Captain Eyeliner, City Kitty, Degrupo, Demure, Eugene Delacroix, Jeremy Novy, Lunge Box, Matt Siren, Modomatic, One Rad Latina, Plannedalism, Raddington Falls, Royce Bannon, Russian Doll NYC, SacSix, Sara Lynne-Leo, Save Art Space, Sticker Maul, The Creator, and Vy.

City Kitty. After Eugene Delacroix. *Portrait of a Woman in Blue Turban*, ca. 1827. Dallas Museum of Art. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Royce Bannon and Matt Siren (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Almost Over Keep Smiling (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Creator on the left unidentified artist on the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.18.21

April 18, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Ramadan Kareem to Muslim brothers and sisters in New York and around the world. May you have an easy fast.

We’re bowled over by the beauty in the streets and parks and rooftops right now, with performances and painting and the blossoming of flowers underfoot and on branches overhead. Fires are alit in hearts everywhere.

“All the roofs are wet
and underneath smoke
that piles softly in
streets, tongues are
on top of each other
mulling over the night.”

from Gamin ~ Frank O’Hara

Yes, there is a sort of battered nervousness in conversations on the streets and as we go about our quotidian duties; a discerned increase in agitation due to economic instability, surges of new Covid strains in our hospitals, and ongoing examples of police brutality toward black and brown people is met with resistance and sometimes violence as well.

Still, consider the robin. In your heart, may hope spring eternal. Also, we learn today that summer may be returning at least one exceedingly creative and participatory public art event as the Gothamist reports that “Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade May Return In The Flesh This Summer.”

And yo! Don’t sleep on the street artists who are putting up new work right now. They are addressing our ills, regaling us with visual puns, poking at our foibles, recontextualizing and performing feats of wonder under cover of night, or while heads are turned in broad daylight. Entertaining, bragging, dreaming… onward they go.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring: Absconded Project, Atakbf, Bastard Bot, City Kitty, Clown Soldier, Degrupo, George Collagi, Lexi Bella, Manik, Marka27, Matt Siren, Peachee Blue, Royce Bannon, Sonni, Teens for Press Freedom, Vexta, and Zaver.

We welcome SONNI back to the streets of NYC. In collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Teens For Press Freedom (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clown Soldier. Bus shelter takeover. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lexi Bella welcomes the new rules for grass in NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren and Royce Bannon collaboration. #stopasianhate (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren and Royce Bannon collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

We also welcome VEXTA back to NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Bro do you even fish?” Not a direct quote from Jesus, as far as we know. George Collagi (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cuomo keeps workin’ it, per Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bowie does a hair flip while Bastard Bot gives him a mask (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. Spring 2021 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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