BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
It’s Bushwick Collective Weekend Yo! The assembled faces and artists is local, national, international – a melange of what Brooklyn has become in recent years and the streets are alive with involved citizenry in search of entertainment, art and community. The Street Art scene is alive and well, just mutating weirdly as it always does; charges of commercialism and the whitening power of gentrification notwithstanding. A little further out in BedStuy was the #PrincePartyBK yesterday with Spike Lee celebrating the Purple One’s birthday, along with a lot of Biggie love, and Muhammad Ali love, and you, Love.
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1Penemy, BG183, Bio, City Kitty, Coro, Crash, GIZ, JMR, KLOPS, Loco Art, Marie Roberts, Nepo, Nicer, Samantha Vernon, Sheryo, Tats Crew, The Yok, Thomas Allen, Tristan Eaton, UNO, XSM, and You Go Girl!
Our top image: Marie Roberts for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali who passed away this Friday. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BG183 TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRASH TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nicer TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BIO TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Oh my God, I am totally getting a selfie with this. No one back in Nazareth will believe this. Suurreeusly.” KLOPS for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JMR for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NEPO . CORO for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GIZ. Joe Ficalora The Bushwick Collective founder with his BFF Pope Francis. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
You Go Girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Protestors at the entrance of the Brooklyn Navy Yard have been drawing attention to their opinion that the Duke Riley “Fly By Night” art project with Creative Time is cruel to the pigeons in some way and that the animals are being exploited for profit. Riley has reportedly consulted pigeon clubs, an avian veterinarian, experts from animal welfare groups and been given a good review from the Audubon society so the opinion does not seem unanimous. Regarding the charge of making a profit, we’re pretty sure all the tickets are free, right? Our favorite one is the sign that also insults the artistic quality of the project as “mediocre.” Oh, gurl, you did not manage to throw some shade while protecting those birds did you? Snap! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XSM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pizza on the run. The Yok and Sheryo shot through the driver’s seat of a parked UPS truck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
UNO. Marseille, France. May 2016. (photo © UNO)
Thomas Allen, partially obscured by some green buffing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Thomas Allen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty. A mash up of two giants of rock whom we lost withing months of each other this winter/spring – with that intuitive third eye. “You will be missed” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Prince. Is VJZ the signature of the artist who painted the portrait? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“The monster within and the fool that follows.” Heard that. Tristan Eaton for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Samantha Vernon for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Is there a story behind this, or simply a fantasy scenario? 1Penemy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“I hate your negative energy”. Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Loco Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Duke Riley’s Fly By Night performance with pigeons in collaboration with Creative Time. Brooklyn, NY. June 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
