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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.11.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.11.24

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring City Kitty, Degrupo, Eternal Possessions, Dirt Cobain, RX Skulls, Le Crue, IMK, Outer Source, Sluto, ICU463, Manuel Alejando, Sule Cant Cook, Cheer Up, Jacob Thomas, Urban Ninja, 613 Hawk, and LeCrue Eyebrows.

IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FORWARD (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEGRUPO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jacob Thomas (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cheer Up Official. RX Skulls. Urban Ninja Squadron. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DNTWATCHTV from Buffalo letting the colors fly, the figures race (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ICU463 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
T (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manuel Alejandro. Sule Cant Cook. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Outer Source. Dirt Cobain. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SLUTO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
You Can’t Blame The Youth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
613 Hawk (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue Eyebrows (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Breaker. Queretaro, Mexico. April, 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.22.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.22.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Sometimes, this frog feels like the water seems to be getting a little warm if you know what I mean. Our minds are being strained daily by a laundry list of stressors, not the least of which is neverending war. It is almost like it is profitable for industry. Also, it is surprising how many initiatives have been approved and passed during new periods of crisis ever since 9/11. Why does it seem like a new normal is introduced every two years? Meanwhile, the House is not in order, doesn’t even have a leader, 2 of the Orange man’s lawyers plead guilty this week, Biden’s giving 100 billion to Ukraine and Israel,

Meanwhile, people are still buying pumpkins this year for Halloween, the leaves are starting to turn yellow and orange, it is raining for the 7th weekend straight, and street artists and graffiti writers are keeping the streets alive from Grand Army Plaza to LES to Bushwick to Midwood to da Bronx. We have noticed several portraits and figurative works that ring true – and photographer Jaime Rojo shares some of them below.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Calicho Art, David Puck, Mort Art, Le Crue, Andaluz the Artist, Humble, Miki Mu, Blanco, SEF, J. Novik, Hu, Carnivorous Flora, Mue Bon, Girlty, Manuel Alejandro, and Al Ruiz.

SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Al Ruiz portrait of Maya Angelou for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Andaluz The Artist. “Abuelita” for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manuel Alejandro for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Girlty for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mue Bon for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnivorous Flora for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Therapeutic Murals for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Humble for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Miki Mu quotes John Lennon for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue Eye for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mort for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bianco for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J. Novik. Work in progress. Some artists are real lambs. Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. MTA. New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.16.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.16.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here’s to New York, which we love more than ever – Especially when yahoos come to our fair city and try to trash us and spread lazy untruths about crime and smear us in a hundred ways. Look, my cousin Harold may pick on his younger sister Jicama because of her braids or her attempt to dance with her dumb friends on TikTok, but if you say an unkind word about her he will smack you right into next week. That’s how we feel about New York.

Oddly inarticulate dumbos like Margerine Blather Green and Mike “Mother” Pence might better stay back in Walmart, or wherever they were born. Do they have schools out there? Or were those burned down when they were burning books? When you are ready to tell the truth about our crime rate and quit dog-whistling about all the Jews and blacks and queers we have here, maybe we’ll give you tickets to see “Wicked”. Right after that you can hit the Olive Garden and the M&Ms store – and then you have to leave.

“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” said Tennyson. You’re welcome. Also, his fancy turns to thoughts of sex. The same applies to young women, of course, but Tennyson was obviously sexist. This also applies to pigeons, two of whom are currently making awkward, chaotic, scuffling, fluttering overtures toward one another and cooing softly on the scaffolding outside my apartment window right now.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: CRKSHNK, Below Key, Degrupo, Homesick, Calicho Art, Habibi, Le Crue, Lasak, Cloudy is Here, Gina Minichino, They It Forward, Channin Fulton, Dragon Fly, Gert Robijns, Jozzy Camacho, Nandos, Mini Mantis Art, and Pablo West.

Exactly. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gina Minichino. And that’s for you MTG. It’s saying something that we New Yorkers have more sympathy for the fierce NYC rats than we have for you. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DeGrupo. Noted. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Harold Hunter piece by DeGrupo (Hat tip to B. Neuman) (photo © Jaime Rojo)
They It Forward (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Assistant to Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dragon Fly (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gert Robijns (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Habibi (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CrKShnK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jozzy Camacho (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lasak (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nandos (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pablo West (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cloudy is Here (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2023. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.20.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.20.22

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Leading up to Thanksgiving this Thursday, we can say that we are thankful to you for your support and encouragement. Thanks to the artists for the inspiring ideas and the loosely woven ecosystem that keeps them going – gallerists, festival organizers, brands, museums, curators, and fans. We’re happy to bring you more fresh stuff this week too.

The first female speaker of the House announced her retirement from the role this week – and it looks like both the House and Senate may be lead by Brooklynites if Hakeem Jefferies gets his wish. A new meaning, in that case, to ‘Brooklyn is in the house!’

This week has been busy with graffiti and street art events and announcements – many not related to Banksy! A new photography collective of heavy hitters in early NY hip hop/graffiti documentation announced themselves at the International Center for Photography (ICP), Swoon and Jeffery Deitch played to an overflow crowd for their talk at Deitch’s gallery to launch her second book, and Al Diaz curated and opened the new City of Kings: A History of New York City Graffiti – along with additional curation from graffiti archivist and artist Eric ‘DEAL CIA’ Felisbret and art educator Mariah Fox. On the west coast, people are talking about the new Beastie Boys show that’s curated by Roger Gastman and Beyond the Streets and which runs in December and January.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Stikki Peaches, Homesick, Drecks, Rime MSK, Bust Art, Le Crue, Sinclair, Duel1, La Nueva Era, Hugus, and Aine.

Stikki Peaches (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bust Art is in town – with this collabo with Wandart. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aine (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aine (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nils (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Drecks (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A very animated and animating RIME MSK vertical install (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Duel1 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hugus (photo © Jaime Rojo)
La Nueva Era (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A few scrawls around the Williamsburg neighborhood like this feel suspicious like they are not by a concerned citizen but part of a propaganda campaign. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sinclair (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untititled. Fall 2022. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.21.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.21.22

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Robert Vargas starts us off this week with a compelling trio of faces, or sides of one character. In each case she has been silenced. “Painting my “STOP” mural is a call to action to stop our #Indigenous sisters from going missing and murdered. The red hand over the mouth is the symbol of a growing movement that stands for all missing sisters whose voices are not heard.”
The streets are speaking. Will we hear them?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Royce Bannon, Jason Naylor, Praxis, No Sleep, JPO, Le Crue, Hiss, Slow Boil, SKJ 171, Mike 171, D. Brains, Dan Alavarado, Panic Rodriguez, and Robert Vargas.

Robert Vargas (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Roycer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Roycer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
No Sleep (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Panic Rodriguez. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentifed artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dan Alavarado. Welling Court Mural Project NYC.Panic NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor / JPO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SKJ_171 / Mike_171, D. Brains. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Slow Boil (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hiss (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Summer 2022. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.27.21

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.27.21

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! These are the beautiful long summer days that we all wait for. As New York frees itself from the shackles of Covid and our cloistered lives alone the sense of freedom to explore our city and commune with its fabulous chaos is sweeter still. But suddenly restaurants can’t sell you a bottle of booze, so maybe we also will stop seeing sidewalk sales of cocktails as well. Of course with legal weed in New York, people will still be strange and slightly hallucinated and punching random other New Yorkers, no doubt.

When it comes to freewheeling handmade one of a kind art in the public sphere, we still follow the beat on the street.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Drecks, Le Crue, Mirs Monstrengo, Modomatic, Mort Art, SacSix, SMiLE, Sticker Maul, and TV Head ATX.

Unidentified artist. Plaster sculpture. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist. Plaster sculpture. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sac Six (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TV Head ATX center with Sticker Maul on the left and Modomatic on the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Modomatic codex. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Modomatic codex. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mort Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SMiLE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Drecks and Mirs Monstrengo collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Dallas, TX. June 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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