Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. A tour through L’ESSENTIEL
2. Faith XLVII in Boston
3. A Team On Their Own: Maya Women Fight Inequality Through Baseball.

BSA Special Feature: A tour through L’ESSENTIEL

Updating the 2010’s magpie approach to group show curation of the abandoned industrial palace, L’ESSENTIEL presents a video tour on par with the metaverse – since we are all still awaiting a functional version of that much-ballyhooed digital world we will expect to inhabit.

Here you find a tone-on-tone parade of installations by some of the best in the street art/graffiti game- a common palette and a mostly 2D execution in the spaces that helps keep it all cohesive. Aiding, or distracting, your trip is the glitchy electronic world-wailing soundtrack and the pixel-thin placards that pop out of concrete seams to introduce the pieces hanging in the air nearby. The show is impressive and gives a wholistic aura. The question is, does this ephemerous collection exist here in the physical world or in the digital one?

L’ESSENTIEL: A Collective Experience of The Ephemerous Art. Graffiti / Street Art

Faith XLVII in Boston

“Perhaps you could dream something that happens in the future,” says Faith.

A Team On Their Own: Maya Women Fight Inequality Through Baseball. Via The New Yorker

In Melissa Fajardo’s documentary short “Las Diablillas: The Mayan Rebels,” Mexican baseball players challenge the restrictive gender norms of their small town.

If you think you are being held back, the first step may be to look in the mirror. The second is to look for kindred spirits.