Welcome to Sunday and the last free weekend of summer in New York before Labor Day. We had a fun tour yesterday with the two winners of the Magic City – Munich competition who won the opportunity to see the streets through our half cracked and mostly sunny perspective. The foot tour with Munich-based students David and Nesli zig-zagged through the Lower East Side and Little Italy before we ended with a fresh summer aerosoled view of ROA painting a brand new mural live in Brooklyn. Here as a visiting artist at a new residency in Bed Stuy, we had seen him earlier in the week in studio preparing new works of natures creature – a few shots here for you to enjoy.
Earlier in the week Shepard Fairey was here to create a new mural celebrating musician Debbie Harry and her band Blondie directly across the street from the former site of CBGB, The Village Voice announced it would not be a print paper after 60 years of culture and politics pumping from its downtown offices, and Brooklyn proudly hosts the Afropunk Festival – full of music, ‘tude, and dope street fashion by some of our BK’s finest style denizens. Already in Paris and London, next stops for Afropunk are Atlanta and Joburg. Hot!
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Daze, Dr. Scott, drsc0, Hank Williams Thomas, Invader, Shepard Fairey, Jason Naylor, Rx Skulls, ROA, Rober Janz, and Voxx.
Top image: Shepard Fairey for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC and a bit of nostalgia with Blondie. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Invader. Yo he’s got the key…let him in! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. Studio visit at the Bed Stuy Art Residence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. Studio visit at the Bed Stuy Art Residence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. Studio visit at the Bed Stuy Art Residence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. Studio visit at the Bed Stuy Art Residence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
VOXX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dr. Scott/drsc0 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rx Skulls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Robert Jenz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Robert Jenz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Daze (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hank Williams Thomas / For Freedoms. Phone booth ad takeover for Art In Ad Places Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. L Train. New York City Subway. August 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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