We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
Street artist Sara Lynne Leo reminds us that we can now begin preparing our New Year’s resolution and achieve a better us. We like what she says at the end, “Be better. But believe you’re enough”. Unless you are like our friend Marlene, then you may be too much!
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
Astonishing. On a humid rainy night on the Upper West Side this summer, Phillipe Petite reprised a version of his highwire walk between the Twin Towers precisely 50 years earlier. With musician Sting below him in this massive cathedral of St. John the Devine, how else would you describe this uniquely New York show to the other 1,500 guests?
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
They say it takes a village. This photo pays homage to the community of writers and artists in New York and to tried-and-true, born-and-bred New Yorkers like Optimo NYC, who bring it to the street year after year with a lot of heart.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
He says he’s Never Satisfied, and he’s been that way for years, but his work stays fresh. May we all be moving Forever Forward.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
As we close out the year, we reflect on the powerful tension between graffiti and street art’s raw authenticity and its appropriation by the commercial world. This image of the Nekst campaign on Manhattan streets is both a statement and a question. Featuring iconic faces like Claudia Schiffer and Anna Nicole Smith—aged and distorted by weathered wheat paste—it sparks nostalgia for the 90s while confronting the passage of time.
At its heart, the campaign addresses a larger controversy: the fashion label Guess allegedly lifted Nekst’s signature tag and turned it into a commodity. Nekst, a prolific and bold graffiti writer revered by the community even a decade after his passing, made his mark in high-profile spots that earned him enduring respect. Seeing his legacy co-opted without consent raises ethical questions about the fine line between inspiration and exploitation—particularly when major fashion houses profit off street culture without acknowledgment.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
2024 brought New York a new fine feathered superhero – an escaped tufted-eared Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco whose daily plans became a focal point for people all over the city. We celebrated his liberation by vandals at the zoo, his sightings and adventures via social media, his tributes in paint and pen by artists and fans on the street, and we coined a description quoted by the New York Times. Sadly, we also mourned his loss and dedicated one of our Images of the Week to him in March.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
We are deeply grateful for the fans and friends we meet in cities, at symposia, or on cozy living room couches. In times of economic, political, and social uncertainty that leave many feeling like we’re standing on a precipice, one thing remains clear: the future lies in our friends, families, communities, and especially our kids.
If you know a young person, support them. Guide them. Remind them that they are doing a good job and that they matter. Your encouragement can make all the difference.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
This shot is a favorite for many reasons. We are celebrating seven years since the opening of the Urban Nation Museum with just a handful of curators. It’s exciting to see the Berlin museum continue to grow, reaching new audiences and sharing the ever-evolving story of street art.
Marking the launch of the new exhibition,Love Letters to the City, the façade features a striking piece by Lady Pink, the legendary New York train writer of the 1970s. Her “love letter” unfolds through a sensuous female form, a nod to both her roots and her enduring voice in the scene. The U2’s section between Bülowstraße and Nollendorfplatz is particularly iconic, and in the foreground, the blazing yellow train rolls by, a vivid reminder that time waits for no one.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
The polarity of positions is popular for simple journals today, a shamefully reductive assessment of the world and our complex interactions. If you were to fall for such easy explanations about politics and power, your only responsibility would be to pick a team. Sadly, that is the formula that takes hold right now, making citizens believe that life is just so black and white, left and right, wrong and right.
In truth it is a thin line, and many of those lines are blurred, leaving many vacillating between love and hate. And they feed off one another. Shakespeare’s famous depiction of love and hate comes in Romeo and Juliet, which is the most famous love story bought and sold. The young lovers’ intense and pure love contrasts sharply with the hatred between their families, the Capulets and Montagues.
“My only love sprung from my only hate!” encapsulates this tension. Love exists in a world filled with hatred.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
This floating plastic bag, like so many, appears mysteriously in the margins of a neighborhood, buffeted by warm, urine-soaked breezes and ice-cream truck melodies and small clouds of industrial pollution stirred by large trucks rumbling past. When artists transform everyday objects and elevate them, we reconsider them. In the case of plastic bags like these, they have been illegal for stores to use here for a few years, deemed bad for the environment. Perhaps the amorphous air-lifted ghost merits a twisted sense of nostalgia for the humble handle-bagged holder of three tins of cat food, a bright yellow bottle of dishwashing liquid, and a lottery card.
Roller-tagged above it are the Homesick boys, once residents of Williamsburg with their mom; now chased away by the surging powers of gentrification that herald luxury brands like Chanel to the neighborhood. Many who grew up in that Brooklyn neighborhood will never live in again because they can’t afford to, a displacement that makes one long for anything evocative of another era, homesick for a time that has past, often before your eyes.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
Accompanying us through the day and night, a wonderland of images leaves us bemused, beguiled, bewildered, bedazzled, and bewitched.
BSA readers loved looking into the eyes of BKFoxx’s news-watching kids this year, perhaps recognizing the stunned feeling one experiences as we surf the fire-hydrant of images and videos on our screens. A tawdry spectacle of things we desire and fear, a glittering swarm of emotion and misdirection—from all directions, this golden dopamine shower never ends.
Perhaps next year, it may collectively occur to us that our media literacy is getting hammered, and we’ll learn to get a handle on it.
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
When BSA was in Dublin this year we found this mural by street artist Asbestos is still in good condition, and still turning heads.
Created as part of a series addressing the housing crisis in Ireland, the work reflects a broader issue affecting much of the Western world, where the financialization of housing continues to outmaneuver societal efforts to resolve it.
His people’s faces are often hidden or obscured, only their eyes shown – perhaps a metaphor for personal space and the psychological sanctuary it offers. Without knowing directly the intention of the work, we found folks on the street in Dublin this May to be caught by surprise at the view, with some taking a moment on the sidewalk to surmise what Asbestos is trying to say.
The figure, clad in a shirt with bold stripes, juxtaposes the simplicity of everyday attire with the surrealism of the house encasing the head, creating a mixed sense of both the mundane and the extraordinary. Before long, you can see that Asbestos is focused on themes of belonging, memory, and the fragility of the human psyche.
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
