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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.02.25

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.02.25

Welcome friends to BSA Images of the Week. Happy Year of the Snake—feels oddly appropriate, doesn’t it?

This frigid week brought us the news that  DEI programs caused a American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter to collide over the Potomac River, Why, you ask? “Common sense,” says the president. Also, China’s open source and cheap AI Deepseek pulled down the pants of ChatGPT, The White House plans higher prices for us with tariffs, and there were no eggs at the Brooklyn Trader Joe’s this week. According to the latest NYPD statistics, murder and other crimes are down – just don’t tell that to Fox News. In art news, the Chelsea artists building drama continues, graffiti artists appeared in The New Yorker with a rappelling piece about XSM and QZAR (they are not alone), and The Post has a new piece about subway dancers at the 49th Street N/R/W station.

Here’s our weekly conversation with the street, this week featuring Homesick, Degrupo, BK Foxx, Werds, EXR, Manuel Alexandro, Great Boxers, Wild West, Fred Tomaselli, Mr. Mustart, Imok, and Sokem.

BK Foxx for East Village Walls. Chinatown, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MustArt. Chinatown, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Degrupo. Manuel Alejandro. Chinatown, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Illustration © South China Morning Post
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wild West (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fred Tomaselli. “Wild Things”. MTA NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Great Boxers (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Werds. EXR. SOKEM. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EXR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REFS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
IMOK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. NYC Ballet. Lincoln Center. January 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 09.25.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.25.22

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! It’s Fall Y’all !

If you know us, it’s a Mexico-Brooklyn fusion. Just one of the endless combinations you discover when you truly explore New York, where we speak 700 languages and dialects.

It is no surprise that graffiti, its style and aesthetic, spanned many of the world’s cities and cultures over five decades – as does street art today. You’ll see similarities this week between pieces we just caught in Chihuahua, in the north of Mexico, and NYC, in the North of the USA. The styles recognize history, but there is definitely a youthful vibe out there and here.

Shout out to the Brooklyn (now LIC) street art duo Faile for opening Deluxx Fluxx in the underground of Manhattan’s Webster Hall this week. Thursday night’s opening was full of fans, admirers, friends, and collectors – with Patrick Miller walking the line outside on the sidewalk to greet patient guests who were waiting to get in. Wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling Faile, the new club is eye-popping with fluorescent image making and graphic design in the Faile vocabulary – and yes, there are new video games that are digital eye candy with a sense of irony and humor. Miller told us that the new version of their classic kiosks would hopefully also provide a platform to other artists – an open inclusive attitude that only comes from street artists who actually believe in community. With a stage for performances, a DJ HQ, smoke, and lasers – it is going to be an instant New York classic house to escape into.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Donut, Muck, Maze, Diez, Imok, Ollin, Griz, Tee, Derk, Bonk, Retos, Merck, and TCK.

TCK. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TCK. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TCK. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TCK. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Merck. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Merck. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Merck. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentifed artist. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Maze. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bonk and Retos. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Diez. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Derk. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tee. Chihuahua, Mexico. 09-2022 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Donut. Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gridz. Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MUCK. Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Visit. Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ollin. Brooklyn, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Imok. Brooklyn, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stickers. NYC.(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Chihuahua, Mexico. September, 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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