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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.02.15

August 2, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Did you see the blue moon over New York Friday night? Looked to be more crimson actually. Welcome to August and the hot sticky band of dirty grit that comes with it. Escape from New York if you can, even if it is just on a lawn chair in a park. NYC parks have a lot of free movies this summer and a huge array of free concerts all through the remainder of dog days. Naturally there is great deal of artful expression on the streets available on your way to and from the venue, very dramatic in its own way.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, 52, Brolga, BustArt, Esteban Del Valle, Dain, Dasic, Don Rimx, Droid, JR, Julien de Casablanca, KFA, LMNOPI, London Kaye, Ron English, Rubin415, Sokar Uno, and Willow.

Top image above >>> London Kaye. This is perhaps the artist’s largest piece and, as is the artist’s practice, it was made entirely with crocheted yarn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KFA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English. Hot Pink Temper Tot. Zephyr. For LoMan Art Fest 2015/L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain for LoMan Art Fest 2015/L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rubin415 . Dasic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Esteban Del Valle . Don Rimx (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bikismo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI. Portrait of Indian girl Dongria Kohnd. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI. Portrait of Iranian kid. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow. Portrait of Rwandan child with Emu turban. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. Migrants, Ibrahim, Mingora-Philadelphia. For Mural Arts Program “Open Source” Series. (photo Steve Weinik. Courtesy Mural Arts Program).

Sokar Uno (photo © Jaime Rojo)

52 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Julien De Casabianca (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BustArt and shades of Lichtenstein in Basel, Germany. July 2015. (photo © Bustart)

BustArt. Basel, Germany. July 2015. (photo © Bustart)

Brolga goes skinny dipping to beat the summer heat (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ben Felis traces flight patters with tape (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ben Felis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Droid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Baphomet (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Flying over New York State. July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.15

July 19, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Chomp chomp, slurp slurp, spraaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy spray sp sp sp spraaayyyyyyyyyy. The sounds of a sidewalk barbecue and painting a new piece on a wall on a hot July day in Brooklyn. Also honking, screeching, sirens, and Action Bronson, Hot Chip, or Major Lazer pumping out the windows of a passing car. Want a cherry popsicle?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Barlo, BD White, Brad Robson, DAIN, Dee Dee, Denton Burrows, Faith47, Fin DAC, Jack Fox, Jorit Agoch, LOMNOPI, JPO, London Kaye, Marina Capdevila, Skirl, Sosta, and Zimer.

Top image above >>> Marina Capdevila (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Findac does a B-Girl in BK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith47 for The L.I.S.A. Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zimer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skirl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BD White collab with JPO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jack Fox for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Including traffic. Denton Burrows (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dee Dee. We think the stache came later… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brad Robson at Woodward Project Space. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Peace (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Barlo and Sosta collaborate in Hong Kong. (photo © Barlo)

Dain is ripping things up. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jorit Agoch for The Bushwick Collective. Last Sunday we published a process shot. Here is the completed mural. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. New York City. July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.10.15

May 10, 2015 Artists

Today we celebrate Mother’s Day in the USA and Mexico and about 70 other countries. Cheers and thank you to all the mothers of the world.

If only we would stop paying lip service to the foundational importance of motherhood; if millions of mothers would know that tomorrow they will have food to feed their children, that they could live without fear of violence, could take off time from work to care for their families, were paid a living wage equal to a that of a man, could feel loved, protected, supported, respected and cherished.

Let’s all work to make sure that more mothers experience love and a peace of mind. Even if your mother is not alive and here with us today, we can support someone’s who is.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Anthony Lister, Brolga, City Rabbit, Gualicho, Hot Tea, JR, M*Code, Mr. Volpe, Nina Kunan, No More Lies, Pablo Harymbat, Phoebe New York, Pyramid Oracle, Swil, Tristan Eaton, and Willow.

Top Image: Brand new work from Willow and Swil in Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Phoebe New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brolga (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR from his series Walking New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton at work on his mural for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton. Detail of his mural for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The phrase in Tristan’s new mural inspired by the Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five song from 1983, “New York, New York”.

New York, New York
Big City of Dreams
and every thing in New York
ain’t always what it seems.

Pablo Harymbat AKA Gualicho and Nina Kunan. Collaboration in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CLICK on photo to enlarge. May 2015. (photo © Gualicho)

A phrase from a song by Against Me! called “Baby I’m Anarchist”. Thanks to Rhiannon for alerting us! Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

M*Code (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Rabbit (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

No More Lies (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Someone made a cat fish sculpture out of tires and wrapped it around a lamp post. If it is not Yong Ho Ji then it is an admirer of his work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lister behind the fence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lister with Hot Tea on the fence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This wall keeps changing again and again and we like seeing it each time. Various artists. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2015. New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.25.15

January 25, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, 2tude, Art is Trash, Chilly Pete, City Kitty, Damon, Dough the Thug, LMNOPI, Mr. One Teas, Sean9Lugo, and Sweet Toof.

Top Image >> Sweet Toof (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. OneTeas….speaking of sweet toof… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Doug Tha Thug and Chilly Pete…a post card from Brooklyn… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2tude (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artists Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. From The Gate Keepers series. Chelsea, NYC. January 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.04.15

January 4, 2015 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

It’s our first Images of the Week of the new year and we’ve missed you! The city is recovering from disasters and triumphs and heartbreaks and infatuations as normal. The police union is attacking the Mayor in the sky and elsewhere, the NY Times is questioning their tactics, the city is grieving violence against two police with a memorial in the street, the protestors spurred by police brutality continue to demonstrate, the mayor marks his first year, a Staten Island congressman resigns in disgrace, a million people were in Times Square three days ago, the minimum wage is going up a little, and liberal lion and 3 time governor Mr. Cuomo passed away New Years Day.

Here’s to you and your family and a great tumultuous spectacular 2015 that is in store for all of us on the street, in boardrooms, behind cash registers, on walls, in galleries, museums – wherever you are. We’re celebrating the creative spirit wherever we find it and when it comes to Street Art and graffiti and public art you can be sure there will be plenty of new things to see.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Clint Mario, Crummy Gummy, Dame Edna, Damien Mitchell, Don’t Fret, Eurotrash040, Fred63, Gordo Pelota, Jerkface, Jon Burgerman, Kashink, Korn, Myth, Smartcrew, Specter, Sweet Toof, and Yenta

Top Image >> Jon Burgerman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sweet Toof (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter reframes the environment. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter. A couple of anonymous collaborators engaging on the conversation of the streets… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kashink (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yenta. Dame Edna, Australia’s National Treasure… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy. Stick it…see what happens! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy. Looks like ET scored a temp job during the holidays…he is still unemployed though. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dont Fret (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kermit as interpreted by an unknown artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damien Mitchell (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eurotrash 040 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gordo Pelota . Eurotrash 040 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clint Mario (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fred63 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Double Jesus (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Smart Crew tribute to the late Jeffrey Gamalero AKA Korn, who passed away in December. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. A mourner takes a photo at the site of the street memorial in Brooklyn to honor police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.14.14

December 14, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

The year is winding down people, and the hits just keep on coming!

Bankers are ruling us and setting us up for their next crashing of the economy, mistletoe-carrying drones are a good idea gone wrong, and thousands continue to protest injustice toward black and brown people in Washington DC and Washington Square. In happier news: – just one photo we posted this week on Instagram – LMNOPI’s painting of a small boy protester – united the boy’s mother with the artist and us via social media, which was kind of magical. See a version of the image below. The city is also crammed with tourists (Hi Aunt Bobbie and Uncle Roy! Hi Kate and William!), drunken Santa’s are somewhat less cranky this year, and the Dyker Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn is already encrusted with Christmas lights.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Crummy Gummy, Dhear, Don John, Eelco Virus, LMNOPI, London Kaye, Mistakoy, Mr. Oneteas, Peter Van Flores, Rocko, Tracy168, WERC, and ZIMAD.

Top Image >> A Mr. OneTeas tribute to Keith Haring appeared in Soho. Earlier in the week an “I Can’t Breath” piece by the artist appeared on the street in Williamsburg but was torn down before we could get to it. Things happen fast sometimes with this ephemeral form of speech, and some pieces (like anything too cutesy or anything with male nudity) come down fast. The artists Instagram has a version of the large wheatpaste. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. OneTeas (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zimad just finished this tribute to Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Tracey 168 re-resurgence appeared suddenly for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mistakoy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy in Miami. (photo © Crummy Gummy)

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye getting in the spirit of the season and sharing it on the streets. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eelco Virus with Rocko for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eelco Virus. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don John at work for Urban Xchange: Crossing Over in Penang, Malaysia. (photo © Nikko Tan)

Don John. Urban Xchange: Crossing Over. Penang, Malaysia. (photo © Nikko Tan)

Peter Van Flores in Miami. (photo © Crummy Gummy)

WERC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dhear in Mexico City for MUJAM. (photo © Wladimir Sanchez)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Freewill Gallery in New Yorks Military Bunker on the Beach

October 22, 2014 Artists

Exploring Fort Tilden

National monuments are typically solemn places for reflection and remembrance. In the case of many decommissioned military installations across the world, the hidden parts of forts and bunkers are also serpentine galleries of freewill art shows. You may call it graffiti or you may call it a colossal explosion of creativity and unscripted free speech, but in all likelihood you will be moved by the clandestine display it in one way or another.

The entrance… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The site of New York’s abandoned WWI era military base (and site of the first Trans-Atlantic flight departure), Fort Tilden, also conveniently is a beach for many of its creative types and related mis-matched fun loving miscreants. While there are snide asides about this being a hipster spot, it is much more than a place for one-dimensional posers – if only because it is sort of hard to get to.

But it is also a little utopia for the grimy self-powered soot-covered bicycling city-set who gravitate to the margins and outskirts for a day at the beach; There are art shows and ad hoc performances, long days of reading and snacking, splashing, Backgammon, and nudity. Sometimes all at once.

Additionally the entire site can be a hidden, yet open, art gallery.

Artist Unknown. Also, Mika loves Mea. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Perched atop the bunker you can have a 360 degree view of the ocean and most of New York City, including the cluster of skyscrapers in yonder Manhattan. Inside it’s labyrinthine spaces below with a flashlight you will discover a 360 degree view of most all of the graffiti and Street Art techniques that are freely experimented with in these mid twenty teens.

On a recent overcast/sunny day at the end of the summer season we took a tour of the darkened spaces that are open to the public to find what kind of art gallery is on display and to discover hidden gems, furtive artists, discarded liquor bottles and the occasional condom. Are these the aesthetic meanderings of mad minds, the seeds of tomorrow’s art stars, or simply the unfiltered mark-making of youth on a summer day’s spraycation?

Cake (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DAN (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NAD (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elvis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A monument to Walt Whitman by artist Patty Smith is one of many placed here during this summers “Rockaway!” art show here, organized by PS1’s Klaus Biesenbach. Whitman’s masterpiece “Leaves Of Grass” begins with the words carved on the stone above. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I Celebrate Myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”

~ Walt Whitman. July 4th 1855

KUMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl . Mistakoy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Newserf. Collab between News & Serf. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Never (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“United States of pills and corn syrup”, says ARC as he washes down an Oxycontin with Coke. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Armer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The New York Skyline from the top of the bunkers. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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This article is also published on The Huffington Post.

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.05.14

October 5, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

School’s back in session, the Jews just celebrated a new year, Kobra painted new portraits of Warhol and Basquiat in Williamsburg, and if you were at Brooklyn Museum last night you got to see Street Artist and muralist Don Rimx and us live – and us with markers in our hands looking completely lost.

But that’s not nearly all the action this week; Gaia was in the Rockaways, Dain showed up in BK, the old Os Gemeos was “unveiled” on Houston Street, Nychos was in Hamburg, Nick Walker was in Yonkers, Ludo was readying his big solo show in London, we marked a year since Banksy hit NYC, students were in the streets in Hong Kong, ebola showed up in Texas, banks are being cracked open by cyber hacks, the US has begun another war, the new SNL is almost unwatchable, and you better start thinking about your Halloween costume.

Other than that, not much is happening.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Apples on Pictures, Conor Harrington, Dain, EKG, Funky13, Jack the Beard, Jeff Huntington, Jesse James, Matthew Reid, Mr. Prvrt, Os Gemeos, Pyramid Oracle, Ramiro Davaros-Coma, Sam3, Square, Stikman, and What Is Adam.

Top Image >> EKG and Stikman collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MR. PRVRT for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Not sure if this is true. Jack the Beard (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brazilian twins Os Gemeos are back on the Houston Wall after a long hibernation under a constructed cover that hosted Shepard Fairey, Faile, and a petite litany of others. So if you missed this the first time around and you are in NYC go and take a look before the wall comes down. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Os Gemeos. Otavio and Gustavo. They painted the mural on a hot day on July 10, 2009. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New work from Dain has recently appeared in Soho and parts of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A portrait of Maya Angelou; a collaboration between Jesse James and Jeff Huntington for Annapolis, Maryland’s first Street Art Festival. (photo © Jesse James)

““I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.” ~ Maya Angelou ~

Facing Evil With Maya Angelou (Full Show)

Ramiro Davaros-Coma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown Artist made this original piece from duct tape in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What Is Adam? Apparently a pipe-smoking duck sailor. That’s what. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Square is back with this melting facade (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Another melting facade, this time from Conor Harrington for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam3 in Rome, Italy for Wunderkammern Gallery. (photo © Giorgio Coen Cagli)

Apple On Pictures (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work with Ai Wei Wei in the center. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Reid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Funky13 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Reflection. Flatiron Building. Manhattan, NYC. Fall 2014. Via Instagram @jaimerojoa (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images Of The Week: 01.05.14

January 5, 2014 Artists

It’s been weeks since we had an “Images of the Week” posting with you, due to the end of the year spectacular we presented for 13 days; a solid cross section of the talented photographers who are documenting this important moment before it passes.

As a collection 13 From 2013 exemplified the unique and eclectic character of Street Art and graffiti photography today. Each person contributed a favorite image and along with it their insight and observations, often personal, very individual, and with a real sense of authenticity. Each day we were sincerely grateful for their contributions to BSA readers and to see the street through their eyes.

Thank you again to Yoav Litvin, Ray Mock, Brock Brake, Martha Cooper, Luna Park, Geoff Hargadon, Jessica Stewart, Jim Kiernan, Bob Anderson, Ryan Oakes, Daniel Albanese, James Prigoff, and Spencer Elzey for 13 from 2013. Also if you missed it, that list kicked off just after our own 2013 BSA Year in Images (and video) were published here and on Huffington Post, all of which was also a great honor to share with you.

And so we bring back to you some documentation of moments before they passed – our weekly interview with the street, this week including $howta, Appleton Pictures, ASVP, BAMN, Chase, Dceve, Doce Freire, EpicUno, Hot Tea, Jerkface, Judith Supine, Leadbelly33, LoveMe, Meres, Olek, Rambo, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Square, and Swoon.

This weeks top image is a reprieve from the winter we’ve been enduring – a small hand cut frog clinging to a verdant fern – created by Swoon and snapped during a visit to her studio over the holidays. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The Perpetual Magic of Small Art On The Streets

September 2, 2013 Artists

“I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.” ~ Bell Hooks

On the street, the most magical art is sometimes the most miniature.

It can be easy to overlook the small and smartly cut stencil or meticulously markered sticker that pops up on a dumpster or illuminates a light pole when you are being overpowered by the panoramic painting that swallows the expanse of an entire wall. Getting up big is big right now. Making a splash with an ocean of pigments appears to be the norm rather than the exception in art in the streets at the moment – thanks to very organized festivals and welcoming real estate folks and an ever more appreciative appetite by the public.

But that doesn’t mean the petite pieces have perished. At times they appear to proliferate.

Small Street Art pieces seem to pop up on the streets overnight like mushrooms in the urban forest – aided by the darkness and fertile conditions – small and surprisingly shaped upcroppings, some tasty and complex and others that may poison your pleasant disposition. We still remember the thrill of walking the desolate streets of Williamsburg, Bushwick, Red Hook and Greenpoint in the late 90s/early 2000s and discovering the “hidden” Street Art that suddenly surfaced without announcement. Amidst a sorry series of sadly deflated industrial sites you would see a hand drawn sticker, a grease-penciled poem, a knitted pole cozy, a pasted collage of textures, photos, and text. Its less frequent right now, but the practice has continued partly because it is quick to install and the effect can have impact and a certain intimacy.

Also, not everyone has a burning need for the big stage. As we all know, the biggest talker in the room is not necessarily the most humorous, insightful, genius or certainly, the most magical.

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Images of the Week: 04.21.13

April 21, 2013 Artists

Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring $hota, Armer, bunnyM, C215, Curtis Kulig, DAO, Demian Smith, Essencia, Gyser, Irade, Joseph Meloy, Judith Supine, Love Me, Meres, Monsieur Plume, Patch Whiskey, Raid Crew, Mr. Blob, Robert Janz, SEN2, Shiro, Smogk, Spagnola, Theo David, and Thomas Buildmore .

We’ve seen a lot of fat cats, but never one this big. French Street Artist C215 finished it this week on a wall in the 13th arrondissment of Paris. Demian Smith, founder of Underground Paris, says the chat géant is “part of the neighborhood’s strategy to create an alternative tourism industry in this pretty ugly, working class area in the south of Paris.” – Not the first time that Street Artists have perked a place up, just usually not on this scale. The strategy has so far included murals by Shepard Fairey, Inti, and Vhils, he says. Special thanks to Théo David for sharing these exclusive shots for BSA readers.

This forced collab with bunnyM and Robert Janz has a wild untamed energy, like a group of teens on a train at 3 pm. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Ain’t nothin I’m just tryin to get my paper, my paper.” That’s right Mr. Blob is getting paid at 5Pointz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Usually catching walls down south, Patch Whisky stopped in at the Bushwick Collective and also hit the En Masse installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thank you to Théo David for shooting the C215 wall in Paris for BSA. Visit Théo’s site here for more of his work.

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The Simple Street Art Stencil: Cut To the Truth

December 8, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, new york, NYC, On the Street

“All I want is the truth. Just give me some truth” – John Lennon

John Lennon, a guy who lived in the eye of a hurricane of hype for a major portion of his adult life once screamed at the top of his lungs for something called truth. At a time when we are condescendingly shouted at to give up our previous conceptions of personal privacy for security and cookies, naked air travelers and torture victims and spillcams and spreadsheets and state secrets are now streaming live via the world wide buffet and everybody is seeing more truth than they were ready for.

Amidst the data storm, something about the simple, uncluttered straight-forward real deal is straight-up appealing. Maybe that is why the one layer stencil, however ornate it can be sometimes, is an enduring favorite of street art fans and artists. Effective visual communication doesn’t have to be fussy, filigreed, or high-falutin’, and some would argue that it takes real courage to let one stencil do the simple truth-telling.

On the 30th anniversary of Lennon’s death in NYC… We love you John and Yoko.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.10.24
November 10, 2024
Well, the world ended this week—again. Yet here we are, still standing, and so are you. It turns out Donald …Read More »
Réunion Island’s Evolution: Eko and the Graffiti/Street Art Festival That’s Making Waves
November 7, 2024
A place you may not have heard of, Réunion Island has quickly become a remarkable hotspot for urban art, largely …Read More »
Transforming Tafí Viejo: Argentina’s First International Street Art Festival in Tucumán
November 5, 2024
The Circuito Mural: Encuentro Internacional de Arte Urbano just wrapped up its first run from October 1 to 5, 2024, …Read More »