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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.06.20

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.06.20

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

…and welcome to a December in New York City where shootings have risen 96% this year, the Sugarplum Fairy and Mouse King and The Nutcracker are not going to appear, 24 subway train cars were aerosol bombed in Queens, a Judge ordered the federal government to fully reinstate the DACA program, the Middle Collegiate Church has burned in the East Village in Manhattan, and Red Bull Arts – home of the awe-inspiring Rammellzee show a few years ago, has announced that it is closing in Manhattan.

Looking for a Christmas tree? An accurate barometer of the income gap perhaps, we found two vendors on the streets of Williamsburg who each told us a 6 foot tree this year starts at $150 this year. Later in the neighborhood of Bushwick we saw a collection of 6 foot tall trees for $60 each. In Soho or 5th Ave just double it, or quintuple it.

Also, as an entirely unrelated aside, have you noticed that Noam Chomsky is metamorphosing into Santa Claus? To be fair, Noam is rarely jolly.

Here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring City Kitty, Elfo, Exposure, Easy and Joz, Gak, Giani NYC, Kest, No Sleep, Quality Mending, Raw Raffe, Skewville, TV Head ATX, UFO907, Muk 123, Gen 2907, Oze108, and Unlok.

Unlok, GianiNYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Exposure (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Raw Raffe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quality Mending for Red Art Projects (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quality Mending for Red Art Projects. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
No Sleep (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Easy and Joz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Good to see that 907 crew is masking up! UFO907 in collab with MUK 123 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gen 2907 and Oze108 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Steel Fist Velvet Glove (photo © Jaime Rojo)
It’s metastasized! TV Head ATX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Told you so… Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Skewville (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Remember (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Remember (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kest . Gak (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elfo in Italy…the middle of nowhere. (photo © Elfo)
Untitled. Queens, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.18.20

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.18.20

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. We’re midway through the month and every one is puzzled by this surge of new corona cases – although the New York mayor says the numbers are plateauing. The presidential race, if you can call it that, has many people worried about which bad direction we’re likely to go. But then the presidency itself has been a four year open sore. Regardless of who wins – you won’t be getting healthcare, or a jobs program, or an infrastructure program.

But crisis always pushes artists to dig deeper, and there are lively, funny, entertaining, strident, wacky people and signs wherever you walk.

Here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week including D7606, De Grupo, Eye Sticker, Flood, I Bella, Individual Activist, J131, Secret Photo Cabal, and Steel Fist Velvet Glove.

IXNAY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Individual Activist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
I Bella and De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trump and Goebbles? Oh sorry that’s probably Fauci. De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“All of us with wings”, says Flood (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eye Sticker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artists (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J131 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Steel Fist Velvet Glove (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Secret Photo Cabal (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Oh my TVC15 loves NY – from d7606 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artists (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untiled. Delaware River. Fall 2020 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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