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Wynwood Walls 2023 Edition

Wynwood Walls 2023 Edition

Art Basel and Wynwood Walls was a buzzing hive of artistic and cultural activity, and this year’s event at Wynwood Walls was initiated by an invite-only party featuring the iconic British DJ, Fatboy Slim, who played an hour-long set in the open courtyard. Made very famous by his hits of the early late 90s/2000s, his legendary beach parties and appearance at music festivals lock crowds in the 10s of thousands into paroxysms of dancing ecstasy.

There’s a new tot in town. Ron English has a new sculpture welcoming visitors. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The event also marked unveiling the 2023 artist lineup and theme – “The Power of Purpose” by Wynwood Walls’ owner and real estate businessperson Jessica Goldman Srebnick. Among the notable artist attendees included Ron English, Dan Lam, London Police, Lauren YS, Mantra, Elle, Greg Mike​, Anthony Reed, Sandra Chevrier, Kai Art, Allison Heuman, Leon Keer, Shok_1, Deferk, and the much-feted artist Lauren YS, who painted an enormous mural on the WW compound depicting a surrealist vision of the scope of LGBTIQ+ community, entitled “Say Gay”. The title references Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” initiative and legislation enacted in Florida, officially known as the “Parental Rights in Education” bill. Signed into law in March 2022, this legislation prohibits classroom instruction and discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain grades in public schools.

Political or not, the compound and its wide selection of artistic styles still have their own energy, now primarily the energy of the family audience and the selfie, and it is good to see many street artists still making the pilgrimage.

Leon Keer. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Leon Keer. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lauren YS. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sandra Chevrier. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KAI. This year KAI had a solo exhibition at the project space in the compound. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Reed II. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SHOK1. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Sadly we didn’t get to see the completed mural. Here’s a lil’ video of the wall in the process. Wynwood Walls. Miami Art Week 2023. Wynwood, Miami. (video © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.23.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.23.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Happy Eid-ul-Fitr 2023!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: City Kitty, 1UP Crew, Blade, Rae, Kai, Dirt Cobain, Ollin, Qzar, Optimo NYC, Eternal Posessions, Shoot Me Jade, Chelsea Lewinski, Carla Torres, Brent Estabrook, Kern, Enzyme, Misstencil, OASE, Doex, Stroke, Crome, and FLD.

Dirt Cobain painted this portrait last week, coinciding with the 7th anniversary of Prince’s death this past Friday the 21st. Prince Rogers Nelson, commonly known as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dirt Cobain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shoot Me Jade. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RAE keeping up in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chelsea Lewinski. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Check out the bling! Eternal Possesions. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eternal Possesions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1UP Crew. Wynwood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carla Torres (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brent Estabrook. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KERN uses two techniques on the street. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QZAR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OLLIN. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Optimo NYC takes it to the bridge. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ENZYME (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KAI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Misstencil. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cats are going crazy. City Kitty for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OASE. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A real throwback from Blade with the Museum of Graffiti. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Doex. Stroke. Crome. A tribute to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, the South California Kustom Culture warrior – an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FLD. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2023. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.05.21 / Wynwood Walls Special

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.05.21 / Wynwood Walls Special

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week – this week from Wynwood Walls in Miami, which each year Goldman Global Arts invites a slate of artists to artistically collaborate by providing them with the opportunity to paint on the walls of the compound. The artists created new pieces in the weeks leading up to Miami Art Basel and debuted them this week. Many of the artists were in attendance during the events and attended the celebration dinner given by the Goldman family as well. Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer were invited to provide the documentation of the process and the completed works.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Add Fuel, Aiko, Bordalo II, David Flores, Ernesto Maranje, Farid Rueda, Greg Mike, Hiero Veiga, Joe Iurato, Kai, Kayla Mahaffey, Mantra, Quake, and Scott Froschauer.

Joe Iurato. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bordalo II. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kai. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Add Fuel. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Add Fuel. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Add Fuel. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Flores. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mantra. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mantra. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ernesto Maranje. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Farid Rueda. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kayla Mahaffey. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aiko. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quake & Hiero. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quake & Hiero. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Greg Mike. Detail. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Greg Mike. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Scott Froschauer. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Class of 2021. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Current, and previous artists, hosts, producers, collaborators, photographers, and documentarians. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Nika Kramer)
Jessica Goldman Srebnick & Janet Goldman. Wynwood Walls/Art Basel 2021. Goldman Global Arts. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.17.21

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.17.21

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Chupa, Elsie the Cowww, Gane, Gemma Gene, Kai, Li-Hill, Mr. Babby, Panic, Peachee Blue, Pork, Skewville, Sydney G. James, and Zexor.

Li-Hill (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Li-Hill (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZEXOR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sydney G James (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr Babby for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PORK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GANE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peachee Blue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peachee Blue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peachee Blue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PANIC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KAI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KAI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CHUPA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Early Riser NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elsie The Cowww for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Skewville (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gemma Gene for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. East River, NYC. January 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.20

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.20

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The city is in mid-winter “blah” mode. We suffered a fire at the New York City’s Museum of Chinese in America this week, and the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams used his Martin Luther King Day speech to tell recent arrivals to ‘Go back to Iowa,’ Things can be tough out here people.

In Street Art and graffiti news, New York has had some “whole car” pieces on the subway line recently, including one that looked like a whole train! Old timers were rubbing their eyes. According to a local media outlet, legendary graffiti artist Chris “Freedom” Pape gave his assessment; “..based on the artist’s philosophy, he gives it an “A” but based on the quality of the graffiti on old subways, he gives it a “C”. Also a new film about New York octogenarian Street Artist Robert Janz opened this week at the Anthology Film Archives. Janz in the Moment is the passion project of Filmmaker Joanna Kiernan that features many corners and crazy details of New York’s streets that are familiar to us – and probably to you.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week from Miami, and this time featuring Add Fuel, Atomik, Bisco Smith, CRKSHNK, Dal East, Feik, Hysterical Men, Jilly Ballistic, Kai, Mr. June, Pure Genius, Rick Azevedo, WCKT, What Will You Leave Behind, Will Power, and Winston Tseng.

London Kaye gives a shout out to the Australian’s wildlife, and of course to the people as well. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
London Kaye gives a shout out to the Australian’s wildlife, and of course to the people as well. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Feik. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Will Power (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Will Power (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jilly Ballistic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bisco Smith. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Add Fuel. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Atomik. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hysterical Men (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Winston Tseng (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kai. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pure Genius (photo © Jaime Rojo)
What Will You Leave Behind (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WCKT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr. June. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ric Azevedo. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. NYC Subway. January 2020. Manhattan, NY.(photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.17.19

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.17.19

New York kicked Bezos out on his keester this week on Valentines Day – although Amazon will depict their withdrawal as a breakup with NYC. You should never feel bad about leaving an abusive relationship. Truth is Amazon’s sweet deal scenario was to twist both the city’s arms behind it’s back and extort $1.5 billion to $3.4 billion in tax breaks and concessions. Gurl, this kind of gun-to-the-head corporate hostage taking has got to stop. How about if Amazon just pays its fair share of taxes first?

Meanwhile the art on the streets that we keep finding in NYC tells us that a lot of people are in love, in lust, or looking for some sort of tenderness. Call it early spring fever but the feels are out there in some of these new pieces this week.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring #Dysturb, Adam Fujita, Bunny M, Dead Bradshaw, Jax and Dean, Kai, LMNOPI, Mr. Djaul, Pers Anders-Petterson, Pop Artoons, Rime MSK, The Hypsit, Theodoru, Vitruvian Truth, and Vondom Labs.

Top image: KAI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jax And Dean (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This bike is being repurposed as an interactive sculpture. Let’s see if anyone adds art, or if anyone steals the wheel. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Hypist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Hypist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rime MSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pop Artoons (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Theodoru (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dream Ooey, gooey, chewy dreams. Vitruvian Truth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr DJaul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lessons in good communications in the bedroom. Please take note. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fu x Surface of Beauty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fu x Surface of Beauty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
No chomp chomp chomp. Vondom Labs (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dean Bradshaw for Dysturb (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dysturb is a collective of photojournalists, writers and artists formed in 2014 to promote their own work and to highlight contemporary global issues around the world such as women’s rights, the environment, equality etc… A lofty endeavor with its heart in the right place which we support wholeheartedly. The group brought their new campaign to the streets of NYC this week. The issue this time is female genital mutilation.

The group uses the streets as their vessel to disseminate the information and to create awareness but in the process they ignore a basic tenet of the rules of the street: Respect the art that already exists on the walls. We spotted a couple of their billboard sized prints wheat pasted on top of long running murals by respected artists like Iranian brothers Icy & Sot, shown above and American/Berlinian painter James Bullough below. These are rather careless placements from visitors who don’t respect the local culture – especially in a city that has so many construction sites with plenty of available empty plywood walls. We’re sure you are all fabulous, but you are not the only ones.

Dean Bradshaw for Dysturb (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Per Anders-Pettersson for Dysturb (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. The Flatiron Building, Manhattan. February 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.03.19

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.03.19

“Man, what’s with this cough that never goes away?” you ask your boy Tre, who’s laying on the moss green living room rug by the radiator drawing in his black book with an extra fine tip paint pen, listening to Wu Tang. “Could be January,” he offers. “Or maybe its asbestos from that work they’re doing in the elevator shaft.”

Right. “Never mind, lets watch some Beer Bowl!”

Meanwhile on the streets the ideas never stop. We were pretty excited to get up to 167th Street station to see the new mosaics by Brooklyn artist Rico Gatson, who does painting, video, sculpture and installation. These portraits of important contributors to the culture make us all proud. Here are just a handful but there are more and you should go and see them yourself.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Atomik, Captain Eyeliner, Deih XLF, finDAC, Go Vegan, Hoxxoh, Kai, Kevin Ledo, Lefty Out There, Mastrocola, My Dog Sighs, Pez, Rico Gaston, The Revolution Artists, Uninhibited, and What is Adam.

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Captain Eyeliner (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayor immortalized by Rico Gatson in the NYC Subway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poet Laureate Maya Angelou immortalized by Rico Gatson in the NYC Subway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Singer Celia Cruz immortalized by Rico Gatson in the NYC Subway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lefty Out There in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Go Vegan (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Atomik and friends in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
What Is Adam in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pez in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Collaboration between FinDAC and Kevin Ledo in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Uninhibited in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Revolution Artists in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A collaboration among different artists in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A collaboration among different artists in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A collaboration among different artists in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
My Dog Sighs (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mastrocola in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Wynwood, Miami. December 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.06.18

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.06.18

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Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Alo, BustArt, Dmirworld, Egle Zvirblyte, Faith XLVII, Herakut, Jose Mendez, Kai, Myth, and Skewville.

Top Image: Faith XLVII “Ashes Moon” in China Town – the first of a 12 part series. Done in conjunction with The L.I.S.A Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville for Moniker Art Fair. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. TRAP on top. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville taking a phone call from his manager… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Herakut for Moniker Art Fair. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Egle Zvirblyte. A project curated by BSA with the production assistance and wall access from Joe Franquinha / Crest Hardware and paint donated by Montana Cans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Egle Zvirblyte. A project curated by BSA with the production assistance and wall access from Joe Franquinha / Crest Hardware and paint donated by Montana Cans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Egle Zvirblyte. A project curated by BSA with the production assistance and wall access from Joe Franquinha / Crest Hardware and paint donated by Montana Cans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Egle Zvirblyte. A project curated by BSA with the production assistance and wall access from Joe Franquinha / Crest Hardware and paint donated by Montana Cans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Egle Zvirblyte. A project curated by BSA with the production assistance and wall access from Joe Franquinha / Crest Hardware and paint donated by Montana Cans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentifed artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BustArt…Cool Bus in the background. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lunge Box (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jose Mendez for Moniker Art Fair in collaboration with The L.I.S.A Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jose Mendez for Moniker Art Fair in collaboration with The L.I.S.A Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ALO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dmirworld (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA “Images Of The Year” for 2017 (VIDEO)

BSA “Images Of The Year” for 2017 (VIDEO)

Of the thousands of images he took this year in places like New York, Berlin, Scotland, Hong Kong, Sweden, French Polynesia, Barcelona, and Mexico City, photographer Jaime Rojo found that Street Art and graffiti are more alive than every before. From aerosol to brush to wheat-paste to sculpture and installations, the individual acts of art on the street can be uniquely powerful – even if you don’t personally know where or who it is coming from. As you look at the faces and expressions it is significant to see a sense of unrest, anger, fear. We also see hope and determination.

Every Sunday on BrooklynStreetArt.com, we present “Images Of The Week”, our weekly interview with the street. Primarily New York based, BSA interviewed, shot, and displayed images from Street Artists from more than 100 cities over the last year, making the site a truly global resource for artists, fans, collectors, gallerists, museums, curators, academics, and others in the creative ecosystem. We are proud of the help we have given and thankful to the community for what you give back to us and we hope you enjoy this collection – some of the best from 2017.

Brooklyn Street Art 2017 Images of the Year by Jaime Rojo includes the following artists;

Artists included in the video are: Suitswon, Curiot, Okuda, Astro, Sixe Paredes, Felipe Pantone, Hot Tea, Add Fuel, Hosh, Miss Van, Paola Delfin, Pantonio, Base23, R1, Jaune, Revok, Nick Walker, 1UP Crew, SotenOne, Phat1, Rime MSK, Martin Whatson, Alanis, Smells, UFO907, Kai, Tuts, Rambo, Martha Cooper, Lee Quinoes, Buster, Adam Fujita, Dirty Bandits, American Puppet, Disordered, Watchavato, Shepard Fairey, David Kramer, Yoko Ono, Dave The Chimp, Icy & Sot, Damien Mitchell, Molly Crabapple, Jerkface, Isaac Cordal, SacSix, Raf Urban, ATM Street Art, Stray Ones, Sony Sundancer, ROA, Telmo & Miel, Alexis Diaz, Space Invader, Nasca, BK Foxx, BordaloII, The Yok & Sheryo, Arty & Chikle, Daniel Buchsbaum, RIS Crew, Pichi & Avo, Lonac, Size Two, Cleon Peterson, Miquel Wert, Pyramid Oracle, Axe Colours, Swoon, Outings Project, Various & Gould, Alina Kiliwa, Tatiana Fazalalizadeh, Herakut, Jamal Shabaz, Seth, Vhils, KWets1, FinDac, Vinz Feel Free, Milamores & El Flaco, Alice Pasquini, Os Gemeos, Pixel Pancho, Kano Kid, Gutti Barrios, 3 x 3 x 3, Anonymouse, NeSpoon, Trashbird, M-city, ZoerOne, James Bullowgh, and 2501.

 

Cover image of Suits Won piece with Manhattan in the background, photo by Jaime Rojo.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.03.17

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.03.17


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While You Were Sleeping is a Korean TV series about a woman who can see the future in her dreams, and a prosecutor who fights to stop these future events from happening. The title also makes us think about the scam of a Tax bill passed while you were sleeping in the middle of the night between Friday and Saturday.

The servants of the rich, these wolves, are facilitating the largest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class up to their masters for well into the future, and it appears that few are awake to see it. It also pulls health insurance out from underneath 13 million sleeping people. The majority of the country was against this but the servants pushed it through anyway when you weren’t stirring. Good night!

When the US had its largest growing middle class and economic expansion in the 1950s the top tax rate was more than 90%. Did you know that? Reagan lowered it to 39%. This bill lowers the top rate to 20%. Since as a group, hundreds of corporations paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 21.2 percent over a recent eight-year period because they’re working the system, that means many won’t pay any taxes soon, joining GE, Priceline.com, PG&E – who already pay absolutely nothing. Just you will pay the taxes. Congratulations!

Street Art better be dope ya’ll, because that’s where many of us will be living soon – the street.

But we are wide awake for sex scandals, by golly. Powerful men are being accused by past alleged victims from every sector in society right now. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Santa Claus can stay above the fray!

Meanwhile, the tree got lit this week in Rockefeller Center, a lot of people are going to get lit this month at their office holiday party, many NYC art denizens are heading to the Miami Basel Circus this week, and apparently there is supposed to be some Street Art thing happening there too.

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring BD White, Daek, Elbi Elem, Elisa Capdevila, Faile, Jason Woodside, Jerkface, Kai, Killjoy, Magda Love, Mazatl, Mr. Toll, Ola Kalnins, Praxis, Timothy Goodman, and Sonni.

Our top image : Timothy Goodman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

B.D. White for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

B.D. White for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Toll. Vanity Project. This piece is visible from the street level in front of Crest Hardware in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elisa Capdevila for Contorno Urbano in Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Barcelona. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbi Elem for Contorno Urbano in Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Barcelona. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerkface (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Magda Love and Sonni (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Praxis. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Praxis. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist in the NYC Subway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ola Kalnins (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jason Woodside (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Killjoy collabo with Mazatl in Cholula Puebla for La Linea Street Art. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Daek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC. December 02, 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 09.24.17

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.24.17

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Happy Autumn New York! To our readers south of the Equator, the spring birds must be singing by now, right? Meanwhile in dirty old New York there is a lot of new stuff – including two new walls going up by OsGemeos and UK artist Lakwena’s turn at the Houston/Bowery Wall.

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Anagard, Anthony Lister, Banksy, Brad Downey, D7606, Kai, Licuado, Martin Whatson, Mr. DiMaggio, Nafir, Nespoon, OsGemeos, Peter Phobia, Ron English, Silvio Alino, Voxx, and Zezao.

Top image: OSGEMEOS. Process shot. This WIP shot of the Twins shows one of two murals painted over the course of more than a week in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nafir . Martin Whatson. Collaboration. Art Mile. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nafir . Martin Whatson. Collaboration. Art Mile. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ANAGARd. Urban Spree. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Peter Phobia. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NeSpoon. No Limit Festival. Boras, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NeSpoon. No Limit Festival. Boras, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fake Banksy. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fake Banksy. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Dimaggio. Urban Spree. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Licuado. “La Diversidad Es Nuestro Tesoro”. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Licuado. “La Diversidad Es Nuestro Tesoro”. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Licuado. “La Diversidad Es Nuestro Tesoro”. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Licuado. “La Diversidad Es Nuestro Tesoro”. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anthony Lister. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anthony Lister. One Wall. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

D7606 collab with Silvio Alino. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zezao. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zezao. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zezao. Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Voxx. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bathroom graffiti. Urban Spree. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brad Downey took over an art space in Berlin the week UN opened and reconfigured the facade to appear like a bricked will with a hole punched in the center. Brad is always seriously on another wavelength and we appreciate that. Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Church Tower. Boras, Sweden. September 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.28.16

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.28.16

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This simple lollipop paste-up reminds us this week that it may appear to be sweet, but sometimes it is poison. Guess that truism should be obvious to you kids, but it doesn’t hurt to remind each other.

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring ECB, Escif, JPS, Kai, London Kaye, Lunge Box, Mogul, Nick Walker, Omen, Tref.no, The J0n, and Shai Dahan.

Our top image: A questionable lollipop on the street. Lunge Box. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Lunge Box. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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TREF in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The J0n in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JPS in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The J0n in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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ECB in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Omen in Rochester, NY for Wall Therapy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Kai (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shai Dahan in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Nick Walker in Stavanger, Norway for Nuart Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Escif in Stavanger, Norway for Nuart Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mogul in Borås, Sweden for No Limit Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A belatedly found piece by Londo Kaye. There’s is never too late for love though… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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