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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.07.24

April 7, 2024 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

To BSA’s Muslim brothers and sisters, we hope your Ramadan has been fulfilling as it draws to a close this Tuesday. Amid the spiritual calm, Friday’s earthquake and its aftershocks have certainly rattled us in New York and across the Northeast—a rare tremor that would barely raise an eyebrow in LA, given their familiarity with the earth’s whims. But for us, a 4.8 is no small shake! Adding to our week of natural spectacles, Monday brings an eclipse, inviting us all to don those dope glasses and gaze skyward as a celestial dance sweeps across the continent. It’s been quite a lineup: an earthquake to kick off the weekend, a celestial blackout to start the week. What’s next on the cosmic agenda? A swarm of locusts? Let’s hope the universe has checked off its list of surprises for now.

We start this week’s collection with a new text piece of unknown origin but one that strikes at the heart of life here in 2024 for many. Could this be an advertisement for the new album by Future and Metro Boomin? A spectrum of emotions and styles, the new collection is from two guys whose collaborative efforts have been making significant waves in the music industry for a half decade. Debuting at number 1, as an album “We Don’t Trust You” has been described as a monumental success, showcasing the synergy between Future’s distinctive rap style and Metro Boomin’s innovative production. The out of context graffiti message, “We Don’t Trust You,” captures a poignant irony: while distrust might seem like a safeguard, history shows that a society where trust is deeply eroded becomes fertile ground for manipulation by autocrats and tyrants.

And now, here are images from our ongoing conversation with the street, this week, including: Praxis, Homesick, Lexi Bella, Modomatic, Danielle Mastrion, Mort Art, Claw Money, Jorit, Isabelle Ewing, Paolo Tolentino, JG, Marthalicia Matarrita, Gia, and 1RL.

Mort Art and Paolo Tolentino (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Marthalicia Matarrita. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lexi Bella. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GIA. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Danielle Matrion. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Claw Money. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Isabelle Ewing. My Body My Voice Murals (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Magnolia. Spring 2024. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.05.23

November 5, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Nobody was out Friday night when we went to see “Stop Making Sense” on the screen; the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn at 10 pm were rather lightly attended, possibly because everyone was recovering from a mid-week Halloween/Day of the Dead blast of drunkenness, revelry, laughter, and tears. Sometimes, even New York turns into a series of bedroom communities standing vertically.

The New York City Marathon is here today, with about 50,000 runners sprinting from Staten Island to Central Park, traversing neighborhoods, bridges, boroughs, and millions of spectators. It is two hours for the head of the pack – although it lasts all day, with some people still running/walking/rolling through the street when the sun sets. And, of course, it really lasts your entire life if you let yourself become engulfed by the human spectacle of it, which we often have and still sometimes do.

The world is still tense and angry and nervous and mournful about the events in the Middle East as we all feel like we have reached a never-before-seen turning point that is changing the world’s perception of that region and our roles in it. New York is showing signs of this stress as well.

Also, there’s that small matter of the Bank of America.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring City Kitty, Homesick, Modomatic, Eye Sticker, Michael Alan, Jenna Morello, OSK, Mue Bon, Keoni VGN, Salto, BH, BAKA, and Swed Oner.

SWED ONER honors Kenny who visits the Bowery Mission every day to find solace, help, and kindred spirits. The Bowery Mission is a New York institution founded in 1879 to provide essential services to the ever-growing homeless population in New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jenna Morello. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artiste D’etat (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In last Sunday’s edition of BSA Images of The Week, we published a WIP photo of KEONI VGN’s portrait of Rosa Parks. Here’s the completed work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.03.23

September 3, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! It’s our Labor Day weekend special for you this week featuring some fresh old school styles popping up again in a bid for capturing your nostalgic feelings for early graffiti and hip hop. And of course, we have some of the new stuff as well. Keep keeping it real and F-R-E-S-H!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: NohJColey, Modomatic, Tomokazu Matsuyama, IMK, WRDSMTH, Ottograph, POEM, The Postman, Nandos Art, Atelier Jolie, Fat Cap Sprays, Fuck with Love, Ester, 1984.YO, and Mattaya Fitts.

The Postman is continuing to leverage existing imagery and freshen it for a new audience. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Such a two-face! Nandos Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tomokazu Matsuyama impromptu intervention at the Houston/Bowery Wall. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Atelier Jolie has been pinked. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.12.23

March 12, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Clocks spring ahead today in New York! Check it!

Taking a little trip to Miami and Wynwood District this week – its a lot warmer than New York.

Hey, is anybody worried about Friday’s second biggest bank failure in U.S. history after the collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008? Nah, right? Just like that ‘transitory inflation’. We’re holding this down, right? And that missing money from Wells Fargo accounts this week – just a technical glitch right? We got this, amiright?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Entes, Modomatic, Rage Johnson, Gear, Sobek, Optimo NYC, Isabelle Ewing, W3r3on3, Juan Salgado, TATS004, Davel Art, and Sophy Tuttle.

Sophy Tuttle. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Davel Art. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rage Johnson. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rage Johnson. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sobek Super6. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

w3r3on3. Detail. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

w3r3on3. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GEAR. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TATS 004. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Juan Salgado. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Juan Salgado. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Entes. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified octopus in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.26.23

February 26, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Optimo NYC on the Houston wall yo! Born and bred, a true New Yorker, and deserving of this wall after paying dues for years. Why does this wall sometimes look better when curated by the street? The holy chaos that reigns here is the pure DNA of the city, unbossed and unbought.

This week the street art is fresh! Never mind the proxy wars, the exploding trains, the 30% YOY drop in 401Ks, the transitory inflation that wasn’t, the Chinese spy balloons that weren’t, the Nordstream 2, the effort to privatize Social Security, the polarization that is encouraged by the media, and the increasing difficulty of New Yorkers to pay the bills… we still have a lot of extraordinary artists, and they are profligate! Also, we have Flaco, the Central Park owl fugitive, and his adorable ear tufts.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Shepard Fairey, Sticker Maul, Modomatic, Bad Brains, NYC Kush Co, Optimo NYC, Pest AC, Valentin Vewer, Holly Sims, Eternal Possessions, Cloudy is Here, and Gosup.

Shepard Fairey’s tribute to Bad Brains from a photograph by Glen F. Friedman in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.04.22

December 4, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

A splendid selection this week of very entertaining pieces across the city. As we enter December, you can see that graffiti and street artists are going full-steam ahead into the new year – with personal, political, philosophical, and even romantic sentiments.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Faile, SRKSHNK, Modomatic, Sara Lynne-Leo, Molly Crabaple, Cope, Riisa Boogie, Ollin, Short, Rezones, Asker Uno, Danielle BKNYC, McManiphes, Kojo Hilton, Rad Bio, Duster, My Name is Annie, and The Jolly.

… but we appreciate the thought. Sara Lynne-Leo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Molly Crabapple love letter to Tbilisi via Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Coloring your hair is such a big job. The Jolly (photo © Jaime Rojo)

As the festivities in Wynwood are ablaze, the Bowery/Houston Wall is similarly ablaze with a holiday assortment of delicious organic home-made graffiti. Ollin, Duster For Mayor, My Name is Anna, Cope. The Houston-Bowery Wall. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Now available on CD-ROM! Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist…what’s with the mushrooms…we’ve noticed an uptick in mushrooms imaginary on the streets both in ads and in art. The National Mushroom Association must have contacted all the street artists to do a campaign or something. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Asker Uno, Danielle BKNYC, McManiphes, Koho Hilton. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Asker Uno, Danielle BKNYC, McManiphes, Kojo Hilton. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riiisa Boggie. Rezones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Love. Brooklyn, NY. fall 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.18.22

September 18, 2022 Artists

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

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: 07.24.22

July 24, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

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Jesus it’s rough out there! Throwing a frisbee could cause a heart attack in this heat wave. This situation is like the polar opposite of a winter snowstorm that forces everyone to stay inside their apartments. Believe it or not, in this city we have such extremes. We gave you Trump and we also gave you Bernie Sanders, for example.

Trying to think happy thoughts on the street despite the crushing debilitating heat and we are greeted by a mopey Gen Z guy carrying a sign that says “this is the coolest summer of the rest of your life”. Thanks, Senor Killjoy.

The good thing, and we insist on concentrating on these good things, is that New York is positively swimming with gorgeous young things who are traipsing through the streets in barely there gear and you don’t even need to buy pot to get high now because the streets are swirling with it. Also, you can buy pot anywhere; in a curbside truck, on a brownstone stoop, from a Nigerian guy out of a suitcase on the sidewalk on Canal street, even at your grandma’s Saturday canasta match.

$100 two years ago is worth only $85, but our parks are still free and full of leafy trees and concerts and theater and city pools are staying open extra hours to cool off. Burning Spear, UB40, Animal Collective, Sharon Van Etten, The Decemberists, Khruangbin, Erykah Badu, Shakespeare in the Park, anybody? We always sit on a blanket outside the gate and enjoy the music nonetheless – you can too. Also, as a reminder, we are not at war with each other – all us different races and religions. That’s all a huge lie on the TV machine. New Yorkers actually like each other.

Our street art as usual is off the hook. This week it seems a little bit cuddly, to tell the truth.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Rambo,Hiss, Dirty Bandits, Modomatic, Neon Savage, Muckrock, You Are Not Alone, Third Rail Art, Rari Grafix, OH!, Drama, and Banksy Hates Me.

Prolly not. Banksy Hates Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Been seeing these at your summer picnic? Modomatic. Bug 015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is this a three layer strawberry cat cake? Hiss (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dirty Bandits in collaboration with You Are Not Alone Murals and East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Third Rail Art and Rari Frafix (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.26.22

June 26, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Not much to report this week.

Unless you’re talking about the seismic Supreme Court decision to take away people’s right to have a legal abortion in the United States. The topic immediately appeared in street art. Abortions will still continue in the US of course. Rich women will pay for them, and go back to church the following week. Senators and congressmen will pay for their girlfriends abortions, with a crocodile tear and a wad of cash. Poor women? Not a consideration.

Clarence Thomas took a swing at other Americans by hinting that same-sex marriage may be in jeopardy. He didn’t mention interracial marriage.

Because of this legal shock and its affect on people – It looks like we have another long hot summer coming. Protests in the streets will also take on a different caliber because Thursday the Supreme Court decided that people are entitled to carry guns openly on the streets.

What could possibly go wrong?

One street art text piece we caught yesterday just as the abortion decision was being announced is appropriately in Spanish. Que voy hacer con llorar? or “What good does crying do?”.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Captain Eyeliner, JJ Veronis, Modomatic, Voxx Romana, Hijack, Fear Arte, IMK, 3784, Jaw1, Smoe, JC3, Mayd1, Spot KMS Crew, Heavylox, and Bongggblue.

An unidentified artist is sharing with us, what many of us might be feeling. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Houston/Bowery Wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The curator/owner of this wall, Jessica Goldman, posted recently on social media that the famed graff/street art/mural wall is “on pause.” The street has its own ideas of course and the wall has been very active for the last weeks in an organic manner. As usual, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Houston/Bowery Wall. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bongggblue and Heavylox for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bongggblue for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Heavylox for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KMS Crew for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mayd1 for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JC3 for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Modomatic. Bug 029. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. The Chrisler Building. Manhattan, NY. Summer 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.19.22

June 19, 2022 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers and those filling that role for families. We know it’s not easy work. We’re thankful to all the guys who are there to raise our kids, to provide guidance and love, and to model love and respect for their partners and wives.

Also today is Juneteenth, one of our country’s newest official holidays, recognizing the foundational earthquake of African emancipation from slavery in the US. Institutional slavery and all its effects – events in our history that continue to impact our laws, institutions, education, civil and economic justice, our relationships with one another – are yet to be addressed in many ways. For Juneteenth, this is a sweet and joyful celebration that is also deeply needed.

It doesn’t get any better with the weather than at this time of the summer in New York – and street art and graffiti are enjoying a very prolific crop this season. The politics of this moment are also showing up the street, with abortion and gun rights and vaccines surfacing as themes alongside what seems like ever-present LGBTQ+ rights. We keep seeing the graffiti/street art spots enlarge, contract, and scatter like a sneeze from one neighborhood to another, largely do to the rampant gentrification rate in some areas and the tendency for people to kill off the very arts culture that attracted them to the neighborhood in the first place. Right now street art in Manhattan is concentrated on the Lower East Side and Chinatown – Chelsea has a few remaining pockets left but it could be gone soon, and a little still remains in Soho and Noho. In Brooklyn, the neighborhoods Bushwick of going strong, Williamsburg Industrial park Williamsburg and Dumbo not so much. In Queens there is Welling Court, maybe Ridgewood, and of course Mott Haven and South Bronx are still popping

But let’s not get distracted by the city topography – lets look at some new stuff Jaime Rojo caught this week.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Sipros, Adam Fu, CRKSHNK, Below Key, Modomatic, Hijack, Homesick, BK Ackler, Sally Rumble, Real Art Daddy, Yosnier, JG, The Eyeknow, Fear Arte, and Natalie Robinson.

Here’s a portrait of “Brooklyn” the sweetest, most ferocious-looking dog in Bushwick by Patrick Kane McGregor. “Brooklyn” passed away and he was the loyal pet of the Bushwick Collective lady who tends shop when Joe isn’t around. La Signora is Joe’s aunt. Much respect. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sally Rumble in collaboration with Adam Fu. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yosnier for Save Art Space Org. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sipros for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eyeknow used Food Baby Soul crotcheted installation as the canvas for their colorful display of ever-seeing flowers. Artist The Eyeknow (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. The Empire State Building. Manhattan, NYC. June 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.28.21

November 28, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving and are hopeful for the upcoming holiday season. There are Canadians selling Christmas pines in the neighborhood already – there is no time for you to digest that turkey, you turkey. Also, prices are up 10%-30% on trees this year. Speaking of which, the official Rockefeller Center tree lighting is Wednesday to see the 79-foot tall tree from upstate Oneonta set alight. That event, like so many events in NYC, is completely free.

But we know that times are tough for a lot of New Yorkers – and people elsewhere – and it can really put a damper on your holiday enthusiasm. In fact, according to a recent study by Deloitte, a record number of Americans (11.5%) won’t be buying anything for Christmas this year. – almost double last year’s number. Money is tight, bro. Even the Dollar Tree Store has announced its raising prices to $1.25.

And as you have undoubtedly heard, New York is in a State of Emergency as of Friday since the new governor declared it – ahead of an expected surge of illnesses due to the Omnicron variant of Covid that may overwhelm our hospitals. It’s not here yet but Gov. Kathy Hochul says “It’s coming.”

Grab a mask, do the right thing. We love ya.

This week we’re headed to the Miami Art Week – and we hope to see you there. We’ll interview Brooklyn Street Artists Faile onstage at Wynwood Walls Wednesday if you want to make sure to say hello. We’re excited to see a new slate of graffiti and street art and mural work – and have heard of some surprise installations sure to garner attention. Not that Miami is about garnering attention…

Our interview with the street today includes ASAP, Cramcept, De Grupo, Duster, Huckleberry Fuck Up, Marycula, Modomatic, Nat At Art, Pear, Sam Crew, Soli, Ultramarine Dream, and Wild Boys.

Unidentified artist in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam Crew in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Duster and other unidentified artists put up a handful of stencils outside the unpermitted Banksy exhibition in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

De Grupo, Pear, Wild Boys, ASAP (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Huckleberry Fuck Up in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Marycula in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ultramarine Dream in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nat At Art in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.03.21

October 3, 2021 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome! What a great week for weather here – fresh, a little cooler – lots of new street art.

Friends we have to caution the young bucks – don’t train surf. We’ve just learned of a fellow who lost his footing Saturday and was killed. No joke.

And now we don’t know what other topic can follow that one, so…

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Abby Goodman, BLAZE, Captain Eyeline, Chill, Chris RWK, City Kitty, CRKSHNK, Fake Hambleton, Faust, Invader, JJ Veronsis, Konart Studio, Lunge Box, Mad Town, Matt Siren, Modomatic, Royce Bannon, The Velvet Bandit, and Who is Ponzi.

Matt Siren, Royce Bannon, and Abby Goodman. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lunge Box & Chris RWK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Still life with street art. Who Is Ponzi. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The series of #fakehambleton “Shadow Man” that have been appearing on the street of Manhattan (and in London) are attributed to a guy who goes by the name of Pablo who runs a mystery Hambleton “foundation”. He’s admitted to painting the fake Hambleton iconic figures on the streets of NYC. We believe this to be a marketing campaing. More on this @bkstreetart on Instagram.

Untitled. Alfa Romeo. SOHO, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Barcelona Tributes for The Amazing SKE
April 18, 2024
Today, we pay tribute to an iconic figure from the Puerto Rican graffiti scene, Eliezer “SKE” Pagán Torres. Born on …Read More »
Elfo Declares “I’m a Figurative Painter”… and I’m the Queen of England!
April 16, 2024
Elfo, the ever-witty Italian street artist, strikes again with his latest work scrawled across an abandoned building in Italy. Known …Read More »
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.14.24 / “Return2Burn” in Hunts Point, Bronx
April 14, 2024
Welcome to BSA’s Images of the Week. We decided to dedicate this weekly survey to the artists of “Return 2 …Read More »
Martha Cooper and Seth in Kibera. Kenya: Part 2 / “We Are One”
April 11, 2024
Nestled within the bustling city of Nairobi, Kenya, Kibera is a testament to its inhabitants’ challenges and its collective indomitable …Read More »
“Tiempos Muertos”. Idle Time With Isaac Cordal in Madrid
April 9, 2024
“Idle Time has become that free moment we have between one task and another in the production process. Productive inertia …Read More »
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.07.24
April 7, 2024
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! To BSA’s Muslim brothers and sisters, we hope your Ramadan has been fulfilling …Read More »
Murals, Art, Childhood, and Community in Lwala: Martha Cooper and Seth in Kenya: Part 1
April 4, 2024
In the heart of Lwala, Kenya, a place where the warmth of the sun is matched only by the warmth …Read More »