All posts tagged: BSA Images Of The Week

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.02.23

April 2, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

64% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, China and Russia are buddying up, BRICs countries are looking for new members, and the Bankers in your life are again looking toward their gilded escape bunkers.

We are transfixed by the first indicted US president, and gloating about having a system of democracy and justice. Now he is positioning himself as an “outsider,” a martyr. A billionaire outsider. We’re just waiting for these crowds outside Trump Tower to materialize. Where are they? Honestly, Fifth Avenue is more interested in the Easter Bonnet Parade that is coming.

But it’s a circus on the national tabloid news, which is unfortunately all of the news now. Our best minds are being entertained by 24 hour sports channels, Netflix and Tic Toc, and it’s not an accident. People are chided into fighting each other over trans-woke-snowflake-abortion-race-laptop-AR15-centered-drag-readings. Look! A squirrel!

Meanwhile, the daffodils are blooming everywhere in anticipation of Easter Week. People were cramming subways, buses, and sidewalks yesterday because of the warm sunny spring weather – and Smorgasborg opened this weekend in Brooklyn. NYTimes calls it “the Woodstock of eating,” due to its variety of incredible food choices – but of course, you can have just as much fun with a bag of chips or a slice of pizza sitting on a stoop watching the parade of New Yorkers march/sashay/stride by.

We had a great time at the Bronx Museum yesterday, catching the John Ahearn/ Rigoberto Torres retrospective and seeing both the artists in person during a panel discussion with artist Abigail DeVille – with fans rushing the stage for an autographed exhibition book afterward. These guys have championed everyday New Yorkers through their painted sculptures for four decades. It is revelatory and heartwarming to see this very large collection of works never shown together before. Make sure to check out “Swagger and Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits” until April 30.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Stikman, Zimer, Subway Doodle, A Lucky Rabbit, Qzar, Optimo NYC, Sekt, AMMO, CEYNYC, Toeflop, Early Riser NYC, Julia Cocuzza, and Miki Mu.

Miki Mu for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This might be the work of A Lucky Rabbit…not sure. We’re also not sure if the work has been completed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LL Cool J is Bad forever. Zimer NYC (photo © Jime Rojo)

CEYNYC lying down…not sure who did the buble…but sure it burns. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Memorial bench in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.26.23

March 26, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York is coming alive as spring approaches – and there is a lot of new graffiti and street art suddenly. We are also awash in news that keeps everyone jumping! The international-soon-to-be-national-bank crisis that is underway, the possible (likely) imposition of CBDC’s in its wake, the BRICs alliances building and de-dollarization of the world economy, the US funding of war in Ukraine, the attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by the same actors, the pending candidacy and/or arrest of NYC native Donald Trump, the non-transitory inflation rate that is outpacing our wages, creeping facial recognition software and cameras into every part of our culture without our permission, the total capture of our news outlets… .

On the good news side, our crime rate has been dropping a lot – even though dunderheads like Mike Mother Pence says we’re having a “crime wave.” Ya’ll just better educate yourselves – New Yorkers are a pain in the arse and are quick to argue about stupid things, but we also like credit for our crime rate dropping, please. Also, we like our new tulips and daffodils and pretty birds singing in the trees. Thank you.

And now, onto our new selections of fabulous graffiti and street art for your pleasure.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Louis Masai, Praxis VGZ, Degrupo, Jorit, Phetus88, Hektad, Qzar, Hugo Gyrl, Jim Tozzi, Toe Flop, Jappy Agoncillo, Tukios Art, BlackStar, Rocking Bones, and Dana van Vueren.

Burt, I barely knew thee. Jim Tozzi in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hugo Gyrl with previous work by Amanda Wong. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit in collaboration with Tukios Art pay tribute to BlackStar. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit in collaboration with Tukios Art pay tribute to Muhammad Ali. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit pays tribute to Lauryn Hill. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit pays tribute to Bayard Rustin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jappy Agoncillo pays tribute to Michelle Yeoh, who just won the Best Actress Academy Award this week for her role in the movie that won Best Movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. The despair, disorientation, and absolute clarity of this movie make it a fitting emblem for our times. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Louis Masai lectures everyone about their behavior. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified collaboration (photo © Jaime Rojo)

HEKTAD hanging from hearts (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. March 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.19.23

March 19, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Binho, Patch Whisky, Atomik, Mr. Blob, Ouch, Ghost Beard, Habibi, Mona Dash, John Pierre, WHKBT, Giulio Rosk, Weerdo, and Chica Dania.

OUCH. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chica Dania. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Binho. Weerdo Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Atomik. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Habibi. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Giulo Rosk. Mr. Blob. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WH KBT. Mr. Blob. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

John Pierre. Mr. Blob. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patch Whisky. Ghost Beard. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mona Dash. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.12.23

March 12, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Clocks spring ahead today in New York! Check it!

Taking a little trip to Miami and Wynwood District this week – its a lot warmer than New York.

Hey, is anybody worried about Friday’s second biggest bank failure in U.S. history after the collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008? Nah, right? Just like that ‘transitory inflation’. We’re holding this down, right? And that missing money from Wells Fargo accounts this week – just a technical glitch right? We got this, amiright?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Entes, Modomatic, Rage Johnson, Gear, Sobek, Optimo NYC, Isabelle Ewing, W3r3on3, Juan Salgado, TATS004, Davel Art, and Sophy Tuttle.

Sophy Tuttle. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Davel Art. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rage Johnson. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rage Johnson. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sobek Super6. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

w3r3on3. Detail. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

w3r3on3. A Wall Mural Projects. Dunbar Elementary School. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GEAR. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TATS 004. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Juan Salgado. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Juan Salgado. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Entes. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified octopus in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.05.23

March 5, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Adriana Vila, Stikman, City Kitty, Raddington Falls, Miyok, Neon Savage, Vegas, Clone, Samva, SEO Panic, Miki Mu23, and 2Won.

Watching the snow falling. This mural painted years ago in Williamsburg by professional painters for Sky High Murals gets a makeover from mother nature. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentifed artist telling us to look, listen and talk about it. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

That’s right. It’s been commodified, defanged, and marginalized, but it is not dead. Miki MU23 for NYC Thrive. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

4,6,3. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. Neon Savage (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Winter 2023. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.26.23

February 26, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Optimo NYC on the Houston wall yo! Born and bred, a true New Yorker, and deserving of this wall after paying dues for years. Why does this wall sometimes look better when curated by the street? The holy chaos that reigns here is the pure DNA of the city, unbossed and unbought.

This week the street art is fresh! Never mind the proxy wars, the exploding trains, the 30% YOY drop in 401Ks, the transitory inflation that wasn’t, the Chinese spy balloons that weren’t, the Nordstream 2, the effort to privatize Social Security, the polarization that is encouraged by the media, and the increasing difficulty of New Yorkers to pay the bills… we still have a lot of extraordinary artists, and they are profligate! Also, we have Flaco, the Central Park owl fugitive, and his adorable ear tufts.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Shepard Fairey, Sticker Maul, Modomatic, Bad Brains, NYC Kush Co, Optimo NYC, Pest AC, Valentin Vewer, Holly Sims, Eternal Possessions, Cloudy is Here, and Gosup.

Shepard Fairey’s tribute to Bad Brains from a photograph by Glen F. Friedman in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.19.23

February 19, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! We’re in the middle of a long weekend thanks to tomorrow’s President’s Day. Usually, its a good weekend for some people to get out of the city to go skiing, but seriously there has been no snow here this year, which is troubling. We might as well stay at home and get to know our friend ChatGPT. Maybe make some comfort food and play board games with it. What? Why did you make a face?

Big things are happening in the Bronx right now, thanks to Tats Cru and the cultural ecosystem surrounding them and the community of Hunts Point in the Boogie Down. See some new images below and look out for some new serious Hip Hop & graffiti collaborations this year.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Praxis, Tats Cru, Dmote, Bio, Ribs, Andaluz the Artist, BG183, Qzar, Anahu, R. Flores, XSM, OTL, Skemes, Sheek Louch, The Lox, and YesOne.

Anahu & R. Flores. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Welcome to Bronxlandia, a marketplace, with local vendors, symposia, events and performances in Hunts Point. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Welcome To…The Bronx. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Memorial wall by Tats Cru to celebrate life and in memory of Djay. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Memorial wall by Tats Cru to celebrate the life and in memory of BIG PUN who passed away in 2000. Christopher “Big Pun” Rios was a Hip Hop artist and a master lyricist. His two classic albums “Capital Punishment” and “Yeeahh Baby” are among the most revered among the Hip Hop community and fans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Andaluz The Artist mural in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop turns the spotlight to Sheek Louch, Mr. David Styles, Jada Kiss, and The Lox. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yes0ne, Ribs, and BG183 wish you a Happy New Year 2023 with the help of Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A constellation of graffiti writers gathered at Hunts Point in The Bronx to hear KRS ONE The Teacha’s proposal for a project celebrating the 50 years of Hip Hop. KRS ONE and Tats Cru will create an exhibition with 50 graffiti writers to mark this momentous milestone in Hip Hop. BSA will keep you in the loop as the project continues to develop. (photo © Jaime Roj

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.12.23

February 12, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

How are you feeling, friends? This month “Beyond the Streets” is opening at Saatchi Gallery in London, Risk is receiving a lifetime achievement award in Miami, and yet another Banksy show is opening in New York. Also, there will be a lot of kissing on Tuesday, so you may want to prepare yourself to pucker up.

Some kind of big game today we guess. Happens every year about this time – the streets will be empty this afternoon as people will be inside their homes, gathered around their screens, eating buffalo wings, pigs-in-a-blanket and tater tots with family and friends. Happy World Series everybody!

Meanwhile, the Chinese are flying balloons over the US, spying. Shocking. Who else does this remind you of?

New York street art is heavy with pop icons, pop psychology, and popular culture in this week’s collection.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: SacSix, Sara Lynne Leo, Degrupo, Eye Sticker, Stickman, Ollin, Jorit, Steve the Bum, and Kir One.

Sara Lynne-Leo is completely fed up with your s**t…(photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit tribute to Malcolm X. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit tribute to KRS-One American Rapper, Hip Hop master, and Bronx native. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SacSix again hi-jacks an image from popular culture and reworks it with some color, spatters, and drips. Here we have the Lone Ranger, with a face like Alec Baldwin – a reference to his gun troubles. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Poor Francis’s been left in the cold by those nasty backstabbers in The Vatican. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You have been put on notice girls… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist. Mushrooms keep popping up on the streets, just like mushrooms… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Degrupo features Andrew Tate as a spotted pink panther on New York streets. Alleged to be a misogynistic influencer and social pariah, he and his brother are currently cooling their heels behind bars for “organized crime, human trafficking, and rape“. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.05.23

February 5, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

In Miami’s Wynwood District for a handful of days, we weaved through the humid, hot, dirty streets. We captured the chaos of new graffiti bombing, street art murals, stickers, commercial commissions of street artists, bland abstracts on massive facades, billboards posing as street art, and even some yarn-bombing. Every retail store is selling products that have been spray-painted with non-descript cheerful, sticky, drippy, stenciled, ironic messaging.

The construction cranes that soar overhead are nearly grazed by the low-flying 737s streaming to and from the airport, reaching ever higher, foretelling of higher rents and luxury condos. Meanwhile, a guy is pissing on the sidewalk behind a dumpster.

Nighttime escapades include chock-a-block clubs with big-gunned men and ropes out front and hostesses in bras and thongs, teetering on high heels. Because competition among these clubs is thick, they are yelling to you over the gut-thumping Shakira-Bad Bunny-Meghan Thee Stallion remixes blasted out to the street, “No cover charge! 2 for 1 drinks!” and other come-ons. The lines queue for the door with IDs in hand while a police cruiser lurks on the corner, throwing blue and red lights flashing across murals and dazed passersby.

Here we offer a taste – and a plea for someone to explain why NYC’s mayor slept in a homeless shelter while we were gone, and what the duck is a frost quake? Didn’t Prince do a song about that?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: 1UP, Blade, Sac Six, Maxi Bagnasco, Terra Armstrong, NB Artistry, XIK, Resko-CMA and VHILs.

Resko CMA. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

1UP Crew. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XIK. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maxi Bagnasco. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NB Artistry. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Terra Armstrong. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

VHILS. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SAC SIX. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blade. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.29.23

January 29, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

End of January, beginning of looking forward to spring. With warmer, wetter weather than we’ve had in years, we also have some plants popping up from the soil that we wouldn’t expect till March or April. This week has been a good show for street art and graffiti, though.

Unfortunately, demonstrations against police brutality have begun here again due to the public release of body cam and surveillance footage in Memphis, Tennesee, on Friday that document police restraining, pepper spraying, tazing, kicking, and punching a young black guy, a citizen, at a suburban intersection. The scene is stomach-turning, devastating to his family, and psychologically damaging to the body politic. Demonstrations in Times Square Friday night were followed by demonstrations in Washington Square Park last night.

Meanwhile, we want to show you some new graffiti and murals and street art from this moment in NYC.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: You Go Girl, Rero, Huetek, DEK, Leaf, Vojtech Trocha, ZROC, DOLE, Manuel Alejandro/The Creator, Jaye Moon, CNO, Atelier Wand Art, BORU, and BOOG.

LEAF CNO. Work in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Manuel Alejandro NYC/The Creator. Year of The Rabbit. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A marriage of styles – On the DOLE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.22.23

January 22, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Happy Lunar New Year 2023! Year of the Rabbit.

新年快乐！

Collabos, crew tributes, nationalist heroes, laborious illustrators, truck pieces, raised reliefs, refined extinguisher tags, absurdist collages, and a range of evolving letter styles, New York is a juggernaut of graffiti and street art every week. It’s an embarrassment of riches from a wide variety of creative talents on our streets, and we’re thankful to catch just a part of it and share it here with you.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: City Kitty, Chris RWK, Smells, Rambo, BK Foxx, Gane, Trace, Ollin, Rold, BK Ackler, HOPS, GULA SOR, Clepto, Hof Crew, 2 Mycg Gane, Zas, BAG HAS, Faile, JG Toonation, Drones, Nails, and Sanije.

FAILE fluxxing their stuff. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. Chris RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

HOPS. Louie Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald filling the air -Jazz wall in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.08.23

January 8, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Boy, that Kevin McCarthy is as popular as an STD in a bordello. After begging and paying off more and more people to vote for him so he could become Speaker of the House, it was well past midnight before he got some serious action – and it took 15 ballots over 4 days to award him into his position finally. A classy bunch too, if the pushing and shoving is any indication. Not to be outdone, our own favorite Brooklyn right-wing corporate progressive homesnack Jeffries sliced and diced his foes with some fancy alphabetics in his speech that somehow looked suddenly like a State of the Union speech via Sesame Street.

“FREEDOM OVER FASCISM. GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING. HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED. INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION. JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH. KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS. LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION. MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO. NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.”

Clairvoyants that they are, the World Economic Forum already had McCarthy’s new title on its website weeks ago. In our age of dirty wars and dirtier martinis, that story had legs in some Twitter circles, but the WEF clarified the situation.

Meanwhile the BSA office game on Friday was Kevin McCarthy name-that-tune day – challenging us to find popular songs to describe the ongoing losing of votes: Winners of the contest were “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones, “Big Pimpin”, by Jay Z, “Burning Down the House,” by Talking Heads, “Fool on the Hill,” by the Beatles, and “Please, Please, Please” by James Brown, “If It Ain’t Ruff,” by NWA.

Meanwhile, BSA was starting the year in Jersey City to catch some of the newer street art murals that we haven’t published, and the graffiti was on-point as well.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Nespoon, SETH, MadC, Homesick, Manik, Mack, WASP, Beset, JCMP, and Louie Gasparro.

MadC. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NeSpoon. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Louie Gasparro tribute to Virgil Abloh. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SETH. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SETH. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

FEELSYKOE. OSF. WASER (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Help with ID, please… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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