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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.08.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.08.22

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Constant rain for days, but the street art is blooming, baby! As are the riotous news waves about the Supreme Court, abortion laws, the efficacy of the vaccine, the ridiculous/tone deaf Met Ball, the new electric bikes just released by Citi, a rise in anti-semitism in New York, the legalization of weed, the 60 Collective 3 show in Dumbo, Swoon’s new “Sanctuary” Project, Elon Musk buying Twitter, a virtual unknown winning the Kentucky Derby, and Meghan McCain selling only 244 copies of her new book. Who is she again?

Nevermind, we’re back on the streets where we belong, tracking the exciting new directions it is taking us.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Jason Naylor, INSA, Sticker Maul, Stikman, Degrupo, Diva Dogla, Mike Raz, Corn Queen, Jorit, Eric John Eigner, Smet Sky Art, Bad Boi, O. Grey, Steven Paul Judd, Katie Merz, and Delphinoto.

Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Diva Dogla (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist targets increasing censorial actions by social media platforms (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Degrupo lionizes Zelinsky as transformer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stikman embeds with Ukraine (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike Raz & Smet Sky Art sing the praises of our beloved city (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bad Boi (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Corn Queen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
O. Grey (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kiowa/Choctaw artist Steven Paul Judd hails from Oklahoma but appears to have roamed ayonder to NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Street artist Jorit celebrates Italian football coach and former player Andrea Pirlo for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jorit for The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
INSA. Our guess is that this piece was almost completed but the rain prevented him from finishing it. Still, we are happy to see this British artist in NYC. We’ll go back to see what details we are missing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sitckermaul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sitckermaul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eric John Eigner (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Katie Merz. You Are Not Alone for East Village Murals. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Delphinoto paints @Pontifex “in solidarity with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si Action Platform – the Vatican’s response to the ecological & economic crisis.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2022. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.13.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.13.22

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The streets are reflecting this moment in New York this week as artists are showing their colors. Or Ukraine’s colors, rather. Hard to sleep through the night when you know that Gotham is on the hit list if this Russian invasion turns nuclear, hard to process the idea that a cold war is never far from a hot one, despite activists best efforts for all these decades. Hard to believe that sanctions won’t damage many more people than the intended targets. Hard to believe that money-printing is never discussed in the news as THE creator of this inflation and much more inflation to come.

Let’s do everything we can to de-escalate this war, this perpetual specter.

And thank you to the street artists who are keeping the conversations alive. Also this week, new works from F**kin REVS !

Remember to Set Your Clocks Ahead One Hour Today.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Adam Fujita, Fuckin REVS, Below Key, Sticker Maul, Sara Lynne-Leo, Hek Tad, Gold Loxe, Mike Raz, Smetsky Art, Hear Eye Am, Equalist, Liagam, and Mitya Pisliak.

Death is not the answer. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brooklyn Bitch Bakery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sticker Maul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mitya Pisliak (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Smetsky Art & Mike Raz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC to Putin (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC to Putin (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sara Lynne-Leo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ligama for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ligama for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REVS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REVS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Equalist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HEAR.EYE.AM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
We know Spring is around the corner when The Lenten Rose, as it is commonly known, comes up from the ground. More often they go unnoticed by the people in the city, as the weather is still cold and their colors are muted – and the fact that they are very close to the ground – prevents them from screaming “here I am!”. But they are the first to announce the advent of a new season. Spring 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.06.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.06.22

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The outcry over the Russian invasion of Ukraine has overwhelmed all other news “coverage”.

In his State of the Union speech this week Biden even conflated sanctions with domestic inflation – but it was already 7.5% annually for a full year before the Ukraine invasion. Using that logic, Putin is also the reason you have no Medicare for All, and the reason there is no student loan debt forgiveness.

The horrible truth is Putin is destroying a country before our global eyes, in between commercials. And thankfully Condeleeza Rice is here to explain that invading a sovereign nation is a war crime.

New York has so many beautiful communities and we value our Russian and Ukrainian neighbors. We refuse to demonize a whole community collectively, and hopefully you do too.

However repugnant the idea, let’s look for a diplomatic solution on the world stage to this crisis if it is all possible. We all have too much to lose if we don’t try in this incredibly difficult moment in history.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Pear, Subway Doodle, Txemy, Calicho Art, V Ballentine, Under Wave Walls, Mike Raz, Tony Tuan Luong, Manuel Alejandro, Smetsky Art, Deborah Kass, Lady Vday, Sage Gallon, and Michael Neff.

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike Raz & Smetsky Art in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike Raz & Smetsky Art in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tony Tuan Luong in Barcelona. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Tony Tuan Luong in Barcelona. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Txemy in Barcelona. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Deborah Kass transformed her YO/OY sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum by wrapping it in blue material. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
V Ballentine in collaboration with Under Hill Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lady Vday in collaboration with Under Hill Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sage Gallon in collaboration with Under Hill Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manuel Alejandro NYC in collaboration with Under Hill Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art in collaboration with Under Hill Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pumpkin (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Subway Doodle (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brooklyn Bitch Bakery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Michael Neff (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pear/Par (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidenfitied artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Winter 2022. Brooklyn, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.25.21

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.25.21

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Can you feel the power of July’s full Buck Moon that arrived this weekend? Not to be confused with the full buck-naked moon; those are the guys climbing the fence to skinny dip in McCarren Pool.

Looks like the new George Floyd statue in Flatbush, Brooklyn got defaced by racists but will be restored and move to Union Square in Manhattan. The vandals must have been mad about all the confederate statues that have been coming down around the country.

You’ll be thrilled to learn that two self-driving cars were tested in New York this week, and no skateboarders or seniors were mowed down. The footage looks pretty tame, to tell the truth. Let’s try the test on any average drunken Saturday night and see how the rabble-rousers fare. Truthfully, a driverless car is exactly the way it feels taking a yellow cab sometimes.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adam Fu, Adrian Wilson, Allison Dayka, Baston, Captain Eyeliner, City Kitty, Comik, David Puck, SEK@DX, Denis Ouch, Duel Heck, Flore, Foxito, La Plaga Invade, Lorenzo Masnah, Lunge Box, Rex Bantron, S. Cifu, Sinclair The Vandal, Sticky Monger, Sule Cant Cook, and Westgard.

La Plaga Invade with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Duel – Heck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Duel (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Duel (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Foxito. We haven’t seen this lady on the streets in quite a long time… It could be argued that we do see reflections of her policies on the street regularly. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sule Cant Cook (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rex Bantron with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Allison Dayka (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Captain Eyeliner (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adrian Wilson with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Masnah with The Bushwick Collective, (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Flore & Westgard (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Citi Kitty & Lunge Box (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Baston & Sinclair The Vandal (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sinclair The Vandal (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sitcky Monger. “We have a communication issue and I don’t like it” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita (photo © Jaime Rojo)
s.cifu with The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike Raz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Comik (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEK2DX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Summer 2021. Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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