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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.04.25

May 4, 2025 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Spring is in full swing, and so are the artists. We’re expecting a few international names to pass through New York this week, including Saype, who’s creating something extraordinary at the UN.

It’s also New York Art Week — a citywide celebration of contemporary art that brings together fairs, gallery openings, and museum shows across all five boroughs. Among the marquee events are Frieze New York at The Shed, Independent at Spring Studios, and NADA at the Starrett-Lehigh Building.

In fact, this week New York hosts Frieze New York, Independent Art Fair, The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, NADA New York, TEFAF New York, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Future Fair, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, The American Art Fair, and Clio Art Fair.

With so much happening against the backdrop of a turbulent political and economic climate, we’ll be keeping our eyes open for artists and artworks that speak with clarity, urgency, and heart.

So here’s some of this week’s visual conversation from the street, including works from City Kitty, Degrupo, Qzar, Ollin, Stu, Smile, Erotica, Son, H Kubed, VEW X, The Splasher, Never Satisfied, Salem, 1992 Crew, Brady Scott, Chris Bohlin, Frozen Feathers, and Monk.

We The People. This mural has been on this spot for years now. We have published it on these pages before. We were happy to see it still running, so we took another photo and publish it again. These are the first three words in the United States Constitution. These words carry a powerful message. “We The People” stand to lose so much, or everything, if we don’t take responsibility to safeguard the rights conferred to every individual living in this country, regardless of political party, education level, profession, affiliation, national origin, color, race, religion, or immigration status. Memorial Day is this month – that day honors the sacrifice and loss of those who served and died in the military to uphold and defend the Constitution. Almost daily right now, it appears that we are being warned to stand up and strengthen and fortify the bedrock of the nation’s values and *our common good* before it’s too late. Despite how it is portrayed, or how someone seeks to divide us, let’s drop the labels; we are not one another’s enemy. We are **all the people** together. It’s simple, and sometimes it is really hard. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“People have the Power” from musician and poet Patti Smith.

“Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power”

Monk. Son. Never Satisfied. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Bohlin. Frozen Feathers. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OLLIN. VEW. DEGRUPO. QZAR. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Spring 2025. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.25

January 26, 2025 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Bitter is right! The city’s temperature has been below freezing every day this week, and the sentiments coming out of the new White House appear to be bitterly subzero. We will be looking for artists to respond to the raft of new declarations, announcements, and aspirations spread across the political landscape. You can’t simply ban and deport everyone who you despise – it doesn’t work. When you see powerful people punching down with such hostility… – even a half-asleep school counselor with a coffee-stained clipboard would ask if everything is okay at home. The behavior on display this week might bring to mind something Grandma Arlene used to say when you were a mouthy teenager: ‘Maybe it’s time to take a good look in the mirror, mister!”

When it comes to graffiti and street art, we’ll keep an eye on the streets; In times of crisis and uncertainty, the artist’s voice emerges strongest, as adversity is the canvas on which creativity thrives.

Here’s our weekly conversation with the street, this week featuring City Kitty, Below Key, Huetek, Muebon, Rheo, Roachi, Such, Humble, Le Crue, Denis Ouch, Notic, Stu, Toney, Jay Diggz, EST, The Slasher, Soren, HELCH, Louie167, and Wanted.

Below Key. Louie167 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty…So Pretty. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Muebon, Jay Diggz, Rheo, SOSabk. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fear and loathing in Brooklyn, thanks to Hunter S. Thompson and SUCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. January, 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Film Friday: 09.13.19

September 13, 2019 Artists, BSA Film Friday

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :
1. “Word on the Street” Debut
2. INO – “Freedom For Sale” in Athens
3. Two in a Row from Alex Prager: “La Grande Sortie” & “Despair”

BSA Special Feature: “Word on the Street” Debuts

“Fuck the old days. Graffiti is now!”

The last five years have been explosive for Street Art worldwide, and with “Word On The Street” you have a good indicator that the graff writing game is alive and well in New York as well – and tenaciously prolific.

Anonymous filmmakers infused the doc with vibrating audio and visual distortion and a sense of ever-present surveillance, or the implication of it cloaked in darkness. Interviews, late night runs, frozen wire fences, loose footing, bloody scrapes, and the sweet smell of aerosol lightly purring from cans across a shadowed wall. The labor of love for the filmmakers is the only thing that pushes a project like this to fruition. And fumes of course.

It’s first public screening is coming up September 29 in Brooklyn. Click HERE for more information.

Featuring 143, AJES, BIO, BRAT, CASH4, CARL WESTON, CLAW, CHRIS RWK, DEK 2DX, DIVA, DSR, EDO, EL7, FAES, FLASH, JAKEE, JESUS SAVES, KLOPS, LEX, LOOSE, MERK, MRS, MUTZ, NEG, NOXER, PANIC, PLASMA SLUG, POE, SCAE, SEO, SILON, SMURFO, SPRAY, STOR, STU, and VEW.

INO – “Freedom For Sale” in Athens

Constantino Mass adds just the right amount of slickly pounding wipes and cuts to this installation by INO in Athens. We published photos from this a few days ago so have a look and enjoy the video.

Two in a Row from Alex Prager

Alex Prager debuted a new short film at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York this month, and it has piqued the interest of many in her work of disconnected, reconnected narratives. Impeccably styled, humorously shot, it’s a staged invoking of old Hollywood and street scenes, enveloped in drama and frequently suspense. Often the LA born director provides just the deconstructed portion of the scene you have seen, and keeps reworking it in surprising ways. Go to the gallery to see the new “Play the Wind”. Below are two of her short films from five and nine years ago respectively.

“La Grande Sortie” by Alex Prager

“Despair” by Alex Prager

BSA Images Of The Week: 05.29.16

May 29, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Woo hoo! Dip your toe in the ocean and the official beginning of summer in NYC. It’s Memorial Day Weekend and it is hot outside and Coney Island is already crowded and has new works this week from John Ahearn, Nina Chanel Abney, Tristan Eaton and more to come. Also you can hear that ice cream truck jingle in some neighborhoods, a welcome sound that will cause batty-ness in the brain after hearing it the 300th time.

Prospect Park and Central Park and hundreds of smaller parks around the city have barbecues and frisbees and refreshments and naps under trees. There is even the smell of marijuana wafting through the streets again. Also there’s a new Strokes album projected on the wall above Futura’s on Houston (soon to be refreshed), there’s a Ramones exhibit at the Queens Museum, and international artists are showing up to paint at the Bushwick Collective street party next weekend. Until then, let’s go up on the roof – you may see Duke Riley’s LED lit birds over Wallabout Channel at dusk. It all kind of feels like the 1980’s, minus the hair spray.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aiko, Jins, John Ahearn, Lapiz, Nether, Nick Walker, Nina Chanel Abney, Pose, TurtleCaps, Saone, Sipros, Stavro, Stikman, Stu, Such and Turtle Caps.

Our top image: Fine artist and muralist Nina Chanel Abney for Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Sigmar Gabriel (the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy) is riding a Leopard 2 tank. The tank is for sale (a little price tag is showing a €) and is painted in the colors of the German Flag (black, red, yellow). Gabriel is holding up a sign that reads ‘Nie wieder Krieg *’ (‘No more war *’). Running away from the tank is a family of refugees.” – Lapiz

“A woman stands in water, half submerged, holding a withering lotus flower as the sky, lit by a rising sun and a setting moon, pans from darkness to light. The lotus in this setting symbolizes strength and courage when getting through life’s hardest obstacles such as addiction. The character is trying to save the lotus, which reflects her beauty and strength, as it is losing its pedals into the darkness. Her half-hidden face is slightly turned towards the light showing that she is turning towards help to revive her inner beauty and spirit. The obscured face speaks to the recovering addict’s battle with shame, anonymity, and pride for overcoming addiction due to public stigma. The 303 stars painted into the sky pay homage to the 303 people that died from overdoses in the last recorded year in Baltimore including a friend of mine.” – Nether

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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.04.25
May 4, 2025
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Spring is in full swing, and so are the artists. We’re expecting a …Read More »
Monoliths and Market Forces: SpY’s Golden Intervention in Lille
May 1, 2025
On Rue Faidherbe, where stately Haussmannian façades frame your vision and the Opéra de Lille crowns the view like a …Read More »
Do Women Have to Be Naked to Be Taken Seriously? Guerrilla Girls and the Streetwise Fight for Visibility
April 29, 2025
“Bodies Of Knowledge” People have tried to make a case for blatant sexism in the percentage of women represented in …Read More »
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.27.25
April 27, 2025
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Don’t miss the Brooklyn Botanical Garden right now – it is peak Cherry …Read More »
Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!
April 24, 2025
Went to Vegas and had a ball. Okay, it was a sphere. Shepard Fairey’s Sphere. At least for a month. …Read More »