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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.11.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.11.24

Happy Lunar New Year! Happy Chinese New Year!

And welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

New Yorkers are having a grand celebration this weekend as the Year of the Dragon begins, and traditional lion and dragon dances wend their way through Chinatowns in Manhattan and Queens. You’ll be seeing lots of red, hopefully getting some money in red envelopes (hongbao), and eating dumplings (symbolizing wealth), fish (representing surplus and abundance), and sticky rice cakes. To all our neighbors celebrating, “恭喜发财” (Gōngxǐ fācái), which means “Wishing you wealth and prosperity.”

Later this week, we’ll all profess love for one another on Valentine’s Day. Looks like red is the color for New York this week.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Homesick, Toxicomano, ERRE, CP Won, Qzar, Hektad, Jappy Agoncillo, ToastOro, Senk, Stesi, CASH RFC Crew, OSK OSK, NAY, and Kosuke James.

OSK OSK in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CASH RFC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NAY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
STESI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Senk (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HekTad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QZAR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CP WON in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kosuke James (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jappy Agoncillo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toastoro (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toastoro (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toxicomano in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ERRE in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#ceasefire (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Red Love (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.19.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.19.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

It’s a new collection of works found on the street here in New York as we head into Thanksgiving week. The boisterous and celebratory party at Skewville in Bushwick last night to celebrate the new Stikman sign show was well attended and full of fans of the artist. The old fans and new donned Stikman masks and wore name stickers saying, “Hello, I’m Stikman.” The long-time imaginative artist is a fixture on New York streets as new generations of artists come and go. Completely anonymous, he never seeks the limelight, preferring to let his copious ideas on lampposts, doorways, mailboxes, and street signs talk for him. In an age of personal influencers and attention seeking, it is refreshing to see his new works quietly capturing attention and imagination on the streets in his way. Bushwick on a Saturday night is teaming with so many crowds of people you may think you are in Wynwood, Miami, complete with food trucks and neon and thigh-high patent leather boots. But the crowds are far more diverse, and the occasional rat is scurrying across the sidewalk before you.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring City Kitty, Adam Fujita, Below Key, Eternal Possessions, Hektag, Hops Art, Aidz, Ali Six, Tkid170, Tracy 168, Hydrane, Otam1, Abloker, Nos Ck One, Madison Storm, Melissa Schainker, Wally, J$T, FatJay, Sens-Sational, Aaron Wrinkle, and 5inck.

Adam Fu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hektad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sens-Sational (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aaron Wrinkle (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hydrane (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TKid170 tribute to Tracy168. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
5inck, Otam1, Abloker, NoackOne in collaboration with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
5inck, Otam1, Abloker, Noa CK One in collaboration with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key and Ali Six (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AIDZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Madison Storm (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melissa Schainker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wally (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J$T (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J$T (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fat Jay (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Sunset over the East River. NYC. Fall 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.27.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.27.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Rhyming and Stealing:
Trumps Furrowed Brow and a Wallaby’s Bounce

COVID returns,
a haunting refrain,
a city once healed,
now facing new pain,

Manhattan’s rich streets,
where fortunes are rife,
High prices, no mercy,
cut deep like a knife.

Bob Barker’s last bargain,
His century bright
When fighting for Fido
The price was just right

So Bloop’s in Ibiza,
and Martha hits Mostar
Ford’s running with money
but doesn’t get too far

Six new BRICS nations,
Allegiances knit
Concur with A. Oliver
The dollar ain’t sh*t

From southern Atlanta,
US history spun,
Trump scowls in his mug shot,
His efforts undone.

R. Rainbow sings Barbra,
Says its all funny, gurl,
and you’d like to laugh
but most likely hurl

But a wallaby at Coney,
over the weekend is happy
rescued from the boardwalk
with “a nice personality”


Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: De Grupo, JPS, The Postman, Savior El Mundo, DrscØ, Hektad, Buttsup, MCA, Fumeroism, Ottograph, and Lysefjorden.

JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A Jester did a side bust in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Postman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Savior El Mundo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fumeroism (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hek Tad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MCA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MCA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This tagged billboard seems to be the product of various graffiti writers. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Detail from the above photo. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ottograph (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ButtSup (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dr. Scott (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dr. Scott (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This Jimmy The Greek 50 seems like a tribute by an unidentified artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist spoof on Gucci. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lysefjorden, Norway. Summer 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.16.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.16.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! And how beautiful this city is, even when the heat is on. The amount of talent on our streets is so overwhelming, thank you New York.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Homesick, Mort Art, Optimo NYC, Savior El Mundo, Neckface, Lungebox, DEK2DX, Hektad, Paolo Tolentino, Jappy Agoncillo, SMURFO, Mike King, Mat Lakas, Lasak Art, Snith Node, Big808, Talia Lempert, Individual Activist.

Optimo NYC continues the organic and self-curated takeover of the Houston Wall. We’re not sure what The End refers to, but as we appear to be on the precipice of so many things as a society and as a nation, you can choose. Based on the sunny yellow, we prefer to think of it positively, like a high school graduation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Here it is again! It seems that Sticker Maul took to heart Optimo’s THE END message above. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
But if this unidentified artist’s message proves correct, the end will be sooner than we’d like. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mort Art adds to the conversation, especially after the dangerous air quality of the last few weeks due to the wildfires in Canada. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This news makes me HOMESICK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A bit of love from HekTad proves to be restorative. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mat Lakas (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Savior El Mundo tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat on the facade of his old studio which was owned by Andy Warhol but leased to JMB. During a very busy week news-wise, it was announced that Angelina Jolie signed an eight-year lease to run a sustainable atelier from the building. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Queensbridge represent! Nas by Paolo Tolentino (photo © Jaime Rojo)
2DX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Talia Lempert. Individual Activist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Looks like we are going to have to do a lot more of this. Mike King (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lunge Box (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Smurfo/Big808 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sinth Node (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jappy Agoncillo does a great tribute to Mac Miller(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A message from Neckface. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lasak Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Summer 2023. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.26.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.26.23

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.

Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Degrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dana van Vueren (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Burt, I barely knew thee. Jim Tozzi in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hugo Gyrl (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hugo Gyrl (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hugo Gyrl with previous work by Amanda Wong. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rocking Bones (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)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Phetus88 (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)
Louis Masai (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toe Flop (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified collaboration (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HEKTAD hanging from hearts (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QZAR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. March 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Happy Valentines Day 2023

Happy Valentines Day 2023

Many media outlets and advertisers will give us the impression that Valentine’s Day is about having a special someone else in our life to provide a gift for. We would like to remember that your first love is you. Take yourself out to dinner, buy yourself a heart-shaped box of chocolates, and take yourself for a walk around the park. It may not be easy initially, but it’s a worthwhile endeavor. An article in Psychology Today quotes writer and editor-at-large Hara Estroff Marano, “Self-love doesn’t happen by luck or the grace of God. You have to create it.” In the meantime, BSA loves you.

OG Slick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Stop Asian Hate – Video With 6 Steps You Can Take on the Street

Stop Asian Hate – Video With 6 Steps You Can Take on the Street

On a day where we are all reeling from a public display of violence this week toward a 65-year-old Asian New Yorker on her way to church, we reiterate what the street artists are telling us – “Stop Asian Hate.” More upsetting than the violence was the seeming apathy of some toward it – and they should feel ashamed for not helping.

We know that our individual actions speak louder than words. Don’t stand by and feel helpless when you see someone being abused! You can help! It’s everyone’s responsibility to do whatever we can to stop the hate.

HekTad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peter Paid NYC in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dragon 76 in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

Hearts NY (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Adrian Wilson in collaboration with the L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dwei (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.07.17

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.07.17


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Whether by design or organically grown, we have always gravitated to what we call “Magnet Walls” – those graffiti/Street Art gardens in a town or city that are an open canvas for artists to get up, try out new ideas, experiment with materials, implement a strategy. These walls play an important role in the ecosystem of what we call Street Art or Urban Art. They’re not always explicitly illegal because their reputation draws 10s or 100s of artists to pile on year after year without interruption. The building owners could be allowing the expressions to take place for charitable reasons, more likely just neglect.

The role of these magnet walls is important …and so we are happy to see that while some walls have ceased to exist in some New York neighborhoods in recent years, mostly due to the voracious appetite of developers and the dulling effects of gentrification – “the shack” in Bushwick, the candy factory in Soho to mention just two of them – others are flourishing elsewhere. Today we have many images from a block known as the Great Wall of Savas in Queens.

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Aito Katazaki, A Cool55, Amanda Marie, bunnyM, Dirt Cobain, Hektad, JerkFace, Key Detail, Martian Code Art, Pat Perry, Stikman, Thrashbird, What Will You Leave Behind, and WhisBe.

Top image: Thrashbird at The Great Wall of Savas. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thrashbird at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thrashbird at The Great Wall of Savas. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thrashbird at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thrashbird & WhisBe collab at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pat Perry for Art in Ad Places. “Drop Bones Not Bombs”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerkface (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saint Francis reaching out to an Angry Bird – as he would, because he’s a saint. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Cool55 at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Cool55 at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The artist’s name is What Will You Leave Behind. “Email me your heart”(photo © Jaime Rojo)

A small poem in the corner reads, “Email me your heart. Then in the morning while we watch the sun rise, kneeling down by the river, the blood drips freely as we wash our hands clean”

bunnyM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aito Kitazaki at The Great Wall of Favas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aito Kitazaki for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Key Detail for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Martian Code Art and Hektad at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dirt Cobain at The Great Wall of Savas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Queens, NYC. April 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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