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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.08.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.08.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Boy, that Kevin McCarthy is as popular as an STD in a bordello. After begging and paying off more and more people to vote for him so he could become Speaker of the House, it was well past midnight before he got some serious action – and it took 15 ballots over 4 days to award him into his position finally. A classy bunch too, if the pushing and shoving is any indication. Not to be outdone, our own favorite Brooklyn right-wing corporate progressive homesnack Jeffries sliced and diced his foes with some fancy alphabetics in his speech that somehow looked suddenly like a State of the Union speech via Sesame Street.

“FREEDOM OVER FASCISM. GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING. HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED. INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION. JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH. KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS. LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION. MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO. NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.”

Clairvoyants that they are, the World Economic Forum already had McCarthy’s new title on its website weeks ago. In our age of dirty wars and dirtier martinis, that story had legs in some Twitter circles, but the WEF clarified the situation.

Meanwhile the BSA office game on Friday was Kevin McCarthy name-that-tune day – challenging us to find popular songs to describe the ongoing losing of votes: Winners of the contest were “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones, “Big Pimpin”, by Jay Z, “Burning Down the House,” by Talking Heads, “Fool on the Hill,” by the Beatles, and “Please, Please, Please” by James Brown, “If It Ain’t Ruff,” by NWA.

Meanwhile, BSA was starting the year in Jersey City to catch some of the newer street art murals that we haven’t published, and the graffiti was on-point as well.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Nespoon, SETH, MadC, Homesick, Manik, Mack, WASP, Beset, JCMP, and Louie Gasparro.

MadC. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MACK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SORY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BESET (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NeSpoon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NeSpoon. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick. Samya. ? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Louie Gasparro tribute to Virgil Abloh. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NEW. RAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FEELSYKOE. OSF. WASER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MANIK. WASP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AVERT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Help with ID, please… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Help with ID, please… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Jersey City Mural Festival Popping this Weekend

Jersey City Mural Festival Popping this Weekend

Aside from a few breaks for afternoon June monsoons and scattered flash flooding on the greasy streets of this historically industrial region, the frantic and focused paintings by artists were setting Jersey City afire with color and character yesterday. By climbing on rooftops and flying on cherry pickers with a slew of aerosol pilots, our photographer Jaime Rojo got some of the best action in this inaugural mural festival.

Ron English. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The MANA Contemporary complex is comprised of an array of buildings – and many are visible from many passing highways and byways. As the melange of cultures here continues to come out to the streets due to lower Covid numbers and higher vaccine rates, the air is thick with expectation. Having a slew of new artworks from across a spectrum of styles and aesthetic sensibility – you will find much the new additions are directly adjacent to the illegal graffiti that started it all – which is as it should be.

Check out some of the new works here by Beau Stanton, Dasic Fernandez, Elle, Eric Karbeling, Erinkco Studios, Jahru, Max Sansing, MSG, Queen Andrea, Raul Santos, and Ron English.

Ron English. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Queen Andrea. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Beau Stanton. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eric Karbeling. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dasic Fernandez. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Max Sansing Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erinko Studios. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jahru. Detail. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Raul Santos. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MSG. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MSG. Jersey City Mural Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To learn more about the Jersey City Mural Festival click HERE

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BSA Film Friday: 06.04.21

BSA Film Friday: 06.04.21

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

Now screening:
1. Homily to Country by Artist JR
2. Jersey City Artists at Work Painting for the first Mural Festival Here

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BSA Special Feature: Homily to Country by Artist JR

“We must throw off the chains of corporatization to save us all,” is the last statement in this narrative about historical, cultural and natural resources being stolen. His statement could have started with that.

Maybe JR will make a project about fairly taxing the rich next.

Jersey City Artists at Work Painting for the first Mural Festival Here

Two homemade videos below of a handful of the participating artists at work in their murals this week for the inaugural edition of the Jersey City Mural Festival.

See the action with Dragon76, José Mertz, L’Amour Supreme, Boy Kong, and Kirza Lopez in action at Mana Contemporary Complex.

Elle, Queen Andrea and Beau Stanton at the Ice Factory Complex

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