Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere today, so presumably we can see more with all this daylight. And yet, the view is somehow clouded from here. The machinations of the city, the state, our institutions, the financial industrial complex, the welfare state – all whir mysteriously before us and behind us. The new Fed Chair made his first public/opaque utterance, and there is some kind of new peace agreement between the US and Iran, yet new bombs explode in Lebanon. In other interesting and unrelated news items, investors gawped as SpaceX dropped 20 percent from its peak during its first week, New Yorkers are worried about videos of unknown people entering and exiting the sewers through manhole covers, and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind participated alongside elected world leaders at the G7 in closed-door meetings.
On the streets, the art, graffiti, and individual commentary tell a multitude of stories as well, including love, hope, fear, celebration, humor, frustration, mourning, and defiance. Here’s our weekly survey, including Arioh, Buttsup, CRKSHNK, Derek Fordjour, Funk, Homesick, JerkFace, Jocelyn Tsaih, Modomatic, Onur, Optimo NYC, Prez NCE, Stop Men, Werds, and ZimerNYC.
At fifteen years old, the Bushwick Collective has become a temporary city-state of culture—where hip-hop veterans, international muralists, neighborhood residents, tourists, diplomats, photographers, and food vendors all occupy the same few blocks for a single day. It has a flavor you can only find in Brooklyn: equal parts grit, hustle, creativity, and collision.
For one weekend every year, a few gritty industrial blocks in Bushwick transform into something entirely their own — murals climbing walls, aerosol hanging in the air, music pouring from every corner, food vendors working overtime, photographers darting through crowds, old-school New Yorkers mixing with first-time visitors, artists arriving from around the world, and thousands of people wandering streets where immigrant histories, manufacturing roots, creative ambition, and contemporary city life coalesce in a semi-chaos you adore.
Fifteen years after its founding, the Bushwick Collective has become more than a mural event; it is a sprawling, improvised gathering where hip-hop, graffiti, public art, neighborhood culture, international exchange, and street-level energy all converge in the same place at the same moment.
The 2026 edition arrived with plenty of its trademark bravado — murals unveiled throughout the week, artists painting live, rooftop celebrations, packed sidewalks, chance meetings, artist talks, and a soundtrack that carried across the neighborhood from afternoon into evening. Equal parts exhibition, festival, reunion, and urban spectacle, it remains one of New York City’s most distinctive annual cultural gatherings.
We hosted the first Artist Talk, and we’ll tell you about that next week. For now, here is part 1 of 2 collections of murals from The Bushwick Collective 15th Anniversary.
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
