We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
The third eye of many of City Kitty’s hand-rendered characters on the street undoubtedly helps him divine the right place to be on the street.
This one seems to represent the fullness of his realized vocabulary, completely confident, and all-seeing. This is the artist’s interpretation of Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix’s “Portrait of Woman in Blue Turban”.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
Consider the city pigeon. As a civil servant, he is here year after year, taking care of the streets and the city, no matter who is the mayor or whether the Yankees are winning. As we change our top leader from Bill Deblasio to Eric Adams in a couple of days, be assured that this stylish and tenacious New Yorker will continue nonetheless.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
Street artist JPS took his game up a notch this year and we were pleased to see the level of complexity of craft on display during a trip to Berlin in the fall.
Here we see the long-suffering, misunderstood, and persecuted artist bearing his burden. Not that artists have a Christ complex or anything, we would never say that!
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
Sara Lynne-Leo captured the resignation and gallows humor many were feeling this year in her small scale interplay of psychological, emotional, and existential matters.
Here her small figures happen upon a “delete” key in the urban wild, but what exactly does it delete?
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
Dreadful to see Banksy’s modern classic girl with the red balloon re-treaded time and again. Conversely, he’s created an ample street meme that is ripe for re-interpreting.
A traditionally red sky lantern (or Kǒngmíng lantern or Chinese lantern) stands in for the balloon here – a symbol of good fortune and happiness. You will see these fire-powered lanterns floating into the air above night time crowds at festivals far and wide – including in China, India, Brazil, Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan.Ignorance among some in the US, and particularly in New York, has lead to an anti-Asian sentiment and to hate crimes being committed this year – because of people’s mental associations with China and the Covid-19 epidemic.
During a time of increased fear and lowered economic prospects it is not unusual for xenophobia to rise. Even so, we all expect better of each other. We’re pretty confident that Banksy would not mind his original piece to be repurposed to #StopAsianHate.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
A photograph recalling the idyllic calm of the Hudson River School of painting perhaps, this paradisal view takes place where the Hudson meets the ocean: Brooklyn.
It was springtime in our fair borough this year, and from this site within the damply verdant Botanical Gardens, one could still hear a distant murmur from the car traffic not far – but instead we reclined into the flora and fauna.
An instant classic for us, this photo anticipates the burst of color and violin strings and robins eggs and resplendent maidens with dew-touched skin who would soon be strolling on the arm of their beloved, pleased to catch their own reflections in the pond. From this perch on the restless overgrown shore, we knew at once that this would be, at the least, another unusual year, beneath troubled heavens on high.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
New York Street Artist Winston Tseng cleverly pokes his finger in your eye during these days when more tepid artists stick to cute and cuddly. He has been expanding the vocabulary of the street to slickly lampoon systemic hypocrisies; employing the visual language of corporate advertising, illuminating the now common practice of manipulating populations, not just consumers.
With a brightly flat illustration style similar to friendly public service announcements, Tseng’s subtle sarcasm has the power to trigger personal threats and paranoid claims from aggrieved passersby on the street and various knee-jerk commenters on social media during this polarized period in the U.S.
In a typical poster by the street artist we see a semi-official looking public-service ad. It proposes a private, charity-funded solution to a social responsibility that once was paid by taxes – children’s education.
Now Bob and Barbie from right wing media opine that teachers are blood-suckers and public education is akin to a socialist plot. Meanwhile last years CARES Act fund went to the “wealthiest corporations and individuals”.
It’s so much worse than we ever imagined it would get.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
On this shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, you face east across the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan; a murky miasma of wet flurries and winter fog filling the air, blocking your clear view, engulfing the island.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
Don’t know why, there’s no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather…
There have been many storms these last few years, and sadly it looks like there are a couple on the horizon. At its most turbulent, we wish you health and, at least, a portion of periodic happiness.
As neighbors and as a community, let’s remember and remind each other “Storms don’t last forever”. We can ride them out together!
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
From winter earlier this year, a simple scene of sublime storm sculpture; the contrast of the compact yellow car enclosed with the curvilinear snow-white powder whipped by a blizzard, immobilizing the city for a day.
While trudging through the snow-filled streets in thickly treaded boots, suddenly your mind turns to summer! The frothy yellow and white reminds you of The Lemon Ice King of Corona, Queens during the hot and humid days of July. Mmmmmmnnn.. lemon ice. Alternately, thoughts may turn to white sugar icing on top of Italian Lemon Drop cookies at any number of bakeries, one which may only be a few blocks away. Oh, New York, how we love you to the moon and back.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2021. We have selected some of our favorite shots from the year by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and are sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street.
It’s the elephant in the room at every social gathering, turning each store, restaurant, studio, living room, museum, pool hall… into a mental jail of some sort. Will this be the holiday office dinner that kills me? Will this be the graffiti jam that jams my lungs? Will this be the Christmas cashier who makes me finally cash out?
Probably that is why this diminutive statue in prison garb waving the white face mask flag high above the sidewalk, over our heads, ever-present, unmoving, – captures a moment that we are living in, courtesy of artist Styro in Berlin.
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
