Trump thought he could lift his poll numbers or legitimacy or at least his personal wealth by taking a world tour this week where he sold $100 billion in arms to Saudia Arabia, scored $100 million for his daughters brand new women’s fund, appeared to curtsy to the king, stuffed an electoral map in the Western Wall, volunteered that Israel did not give him intelligence that he gave to Russians in the Oval Office, depressed the Pope, irked his wife, shoved the leader of Montenegro to get to the head of the line, was ambush handshook by the new president of France, told the Germans they were very very bad…. can he please stop now? This drip, drip, drip of rotten embarrassing news is driving everyone crazy. Please please don’t start a war. Now his son-in-law is being invited for some interviews with the FBI?
Meanwhile, New York is getting clobbered by rain and new Street Art and murals and is electrified with the excitement of the beginning of summer. Coney Island, Bushwick, Little Italy are hot for new stuff going up again, David Choe is at the Houston Wall this week, the Bushwick Collective Block Party is June 3, and Ad Hoc’s Welling Court begins June 10.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Alice Pasquini, Baron Von Fancy, Blanco, City Kitty, Crash, Drsc0, Erosie, Jim Drain, Jorit Agoch, kaNO, Martin Whatson, Nick Walker, Pear, Rocket 01, Serge Lowrider, and Tod Seelie.
Top image: Kano. Detail. The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kano for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jim Drain for Coney Art Walls 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jorit Agoch portrait of Brazilian twins and artists Os Gemeos. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist on the streets of Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist on the streets of Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Serge Lowrider for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporar Art. PM/12 “What In The World” Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Serge Lowrider for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporar Art. PM/12 “What In The World” Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist on the streets of Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist on the streets of Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rocket 01 for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art “One Wall Project” in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blanco (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blanco. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Among other things. Baron Von Fancy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Collaboration between CRASH and Nick Walker. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erosie for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporar Art. PM/12 “What In The World” Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Moloch is the Biblical name relating to a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice. The name of this deity is also sometimes spelled Molech, Milcom, or Malcam.” We wonder whose children Moloch would sacrifice in this premonition from an unidentified artist on the streets of NYC. Yours? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Alice Pasquini in Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist on the streets of NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Martin Whatson for Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pear. Or, in this case, Richie’s pear next to Fabco’s shoes. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tod Seelie for Art in Ad Places. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Drsc0 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Coney Island, NY. May 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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