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BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC

BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC


In New York and Miami and across the U.S., stories of legitimate struggles with the healthcare system are a constant backdrop to everyday life. Someone you met can’t afford insurance. Someone else is battling their insurer to approve a critical procedure. Surprise medical bills arrive for your girlfriend without warning. Your coworker avoids the doctor altogether because the costs are prohibitive. Teachers face medical bankruptcy, parents delay surgeries, and families turn to GoFundMe campaigns to defray crippling medical costs not covered. Meanwhile, seniors ration medication, cutting pills in half to make them last. It’s a system where multi-billion-dollar corporations, shielded by their (paid) influence over government, operate with impunity, leaving the sick ill-equipped to challenge them.

This backdrop of frustration likely fueled the sharp sarcasm and bitterness that erupted in conversations on social media and on the street after the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot and killed on a Manhattan sidewalk this week. A young man in a hoodie fled the scene on a bicycle. Hundreds, no, thousands of responses on platforms like Twitter included jabs such as, “My empathy is out of network” and “Thoughts and prior authorizations.” UnitedHealthcare’s Facebook page was inundated with thousands of comments mocking the company’s public statement of sorrow. Many appeared to post pictures of family members or rejection notices they received from United Healthcare, their addresses blacked out.

To be clear, ‘denial of care’ is not just a business or policy practice; it is a systematic design rooted in contempt for people. These practices profoundly impact millions of people, possibly you and your family.

Now, five days later, the FBI joined the NYPD search for the suspect, who is believed to have left New York. Yet in laundromats, bars, and online forums, some people quietly invoke phrases like “snitches get stitches,” a colloquialism from hip-hop culture discouraging cooperation with law enforcement.

Critics in the media have rightly denounced the ethics of vigilante justice. At its core, vigilantism threatens to unravel societal order. Yet, so does a society that lets a profit-driven industry determine which sick lives are worth saving. The bitter truth is that for many, the system already feels unraveled.


Miami, we love you. This week was great at Wynwood Walls and Museum of Graffiti, and in the streets of Wynwood. The new STRAAT Catalogue is shipping on Christmas – and our Editor in Chief is one of the authors along with great folks like Carlo McCormick, Christian Omodeo, and Charlotte Pyatt. Most importantly, we cannot tell you how much we enjoyed meeting BSA readers and receiving your feedback and support. There are so many talented, creative, brilliant minds on this trip, and we like meeting each and every one. Don’t be shy! Thank you sincerely.

Shout out to our hosts at MOG Alan Ket and Allison Frieden, to David Roos from STRAAT, and to artists Nina Falkhoff, and HOXXOH.

Here’s our weekly conversation with the street, this week in New York and Miami, featuring: Retna, Adele Renault, Inkie, Werds, Pez, Astro, HOXXOH, Zimer, Kern, 1457 Wave, Juju the Frog, Trek86, Ishmael Book Art, Shey Lunatic, KTAN086, Code-E, and Z. Veiz.

ASTRO in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KTANO86 in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Shev Lunatic in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZIMERNYC in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZIMERNYC in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trek86 & Ishmael Book Art in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trek86 & Ishmael Book Art in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trek86 & Ishmael Book Art in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trek86 & Ishmael Book Art in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Juju The Frog in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Juju The Frog in Manhattan, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1457Wave in Wynwood, Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
INKIE in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Z.VEIZ in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WERD and friends in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adele Renault in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adele Renault in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOXXOH in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KERN in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CODE-E possibly painted Jay-Z’s imitation of Basquiat in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PEZ in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This is an advertising campaign for the soon-to-be-released Bob Dylan’s biopic “A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet. They could have asked French street artist Jef Aerosol, who has stencilled Dylan on city walls for years.(photo © Jaime Rojo)
This is an advertising campaign for the soon-to-be-released Bob Dylan’s biopic “A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This is an advertising campaign for the soon-to-be-released Bob Dylan’s biopic “A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RETNA in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.14.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.14.24

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

– Cesar A. Cruz


Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

The fog of war obscures our vision, confuses our thoughts, and stirs fear and anger within us. Yet, we must not yield to despair as we navigate these unpredictable times. Within each of us lies a creative spirit eager to emerge. Around us are those who yearn for love and aid. Street artists, with their unusual practice of blending of persuasion and provocation, offer entertainment, encouragement, and discomfort. In such times, the artist’s voice becomes crucial, including your voice.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Jeremy Fish, Angurria, Mike King, Spaint, Tom Bob NYC, Jay Kaes, Whitney Holbourn, Dream Weavin, Art of Slim, Keru De Kolorz, Menas 24711, Memi Martinez, Face, and Brian Wooden.

Memi Martinez in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jeremy Fish in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Angurria in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Menas 24711 in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Keru De Kolorz in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Whitney Holbourn, Dream Weavin, and Art of Slim in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jay Kaes in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Spaint in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brian Wooden in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike King (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mike King (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FACE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Hudson River, NY. Winter 2024. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.07.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.07.24

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

The New Year has been good so far, except if your country is in a war and is being pulverized.

We captured some exceptional street art during our visits to Miami last month. It’s encouraging to see that, despite commercial pressures, the artists’ untamed creative spirit continues to shine through. To balance the collection, we have dirty old New York pieces that pull no punches, and tell no truths, I mean lies. Happy to share these new and dynamic pieces with you.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Tats Cru. Homesick, Werds, Deih XLF, Melski, West, Dase, Banksy Hates Me, Wizard Skull, Johann Art, Arlex Campos, Professorx, d1a5, Salute, Urban Ruben, HITC, Heat, and Kane.

Wizard Skull (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Freedom to Transact in the context of cryptocurrency refers to attempts by traditional banks to attack and obstruct the move by people to use something other than fiat. Unidentified artist in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kane in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick. West. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
West (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Arlex Campos in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Johann Art in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Professorx, Johann Art, and d1a5 in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dase (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salute in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tats Cru (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Werds (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melski in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melski in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Urban Ruben in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HITC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Banksy Hates Me in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Heat in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Deih XLF collab with Hoxxoh in Wywood Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peace on Earth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Cranio Continues, Forests Alight, Skies Darkened

Cranio Continues, Forests Alight, Skies Darkened

Cranio. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brazil based Cranio has a quickly identifiable character – the cerulean blue native in traditional garb who feels entirely outside the modern consumerist world, even as he negotiates his way through it. According to the artist, the blue is a nod to his cultural heritage as an indigenous person from the Xingu region of Brazil. The blue figures in his work often appear to connect his personal history with broader social and political issues, particularly those regarding the marginalization and erasure of indigenous cultures.

Cranio. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fabio de Oliveira Parnaiba began painting in the streets of Sao Paulo in the early 2000s and has since become known for his distinctive aesthetic and commentary on contemporary society delivered with humor and pathos. A school of illustration influences the overall style you may associate with other Brazillian street artists such as Os Gemeos – an adventure-seeking childlike superhero who is willing to play the game as soon as they can confidently discern what it is.

Cranio. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In many of Cranio’s works, his blue figures are placed within a modern, commercial world, surrounded by symbols of consumerism such as logos, billboards, shopping bags – and destruction. The traditional clothing and markings of the indigenous figures are not meant to be ironic but may strike you so as you realize the path to becoming a successful artist includes embracing the modern urban environment – even while commenting on how globalization and capitalism have impacted indigenous communities. Today Cranio’s work can be found in cities around the world, from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to Paris, London, and New York and in addition to his street art, he has also exhibited in galleries and museums and has collaborated with brands such as Adidas and Mini Cooper.

Cranio. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Graffiti Against Violence: Chihuahua Dispatch I – International Women’s Day /Month

Graffiti Against Violence: Chihuahua Dispatch I – International Women’s Day /Month

As we approach the end of International Women’s Day/Month, we share with you images from the protests that took place in Chihuahua, Mexico marking the day when women all over the world took to the streets to protest their oppressive, dangerous, unjust, and violent conditions in what could be all countries in the world.

International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A recent trip to Chihuahua City in Mexico regaled graffiti hunters with many amazing talents in the letter hand-styling department and several very talented local and national muralists scattered around the northern city of about one million inhabitants. It also paraded a long list of accused or convicted rapists, abusers, and those reported to be involved in sex crimes.

International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Remaining from a protest commemorating International Women’s Day here two years ago, these hand-sprayed names and accusations still mark the walls of abandoned buildings and even historical monuments. The graffiti appears to be aimed at raising awareness about the high levels of gender-based violence in Mexico and calling attention to the impunity that often allows perpetrators to go unpunished. The women who participated in the protest stated that they wanted to hold the perpetrators accountable for their actions and demand justice for their victims.

International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The fact that so many of these were sprayed is shocking to many locals, and the fact that they remain years afterward without being buffed is perhaps more impressive. These street scribes were visually yelling, demanding justice, and warning sex offenders that they would be held accountable for their actions. We took a number of shots while searching for more artful graffiti and street art, but we have to say that the emotional intensity of these writings and simple stencils here in public space was far more impactful in many ways than anything else by those creating for aesthetic purposes.

International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
International Women’s Day / Month. Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Mexico 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Menace Two. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Mantra Flying in Wynwood, Part Deux

Mantra Flying in Wynwood, Part Deux

Rising above the sticky spray-painted chaos on the first story level of nearly everything else here in Wynwood, you’ll walk by and gaze upward at the newly finished panels of scientifically accurate butterflies by the French street artist Mantra. This is part two of a gig he got with a real estate firm that we caught the first part of just before the New Year. (Mantra Flies High in Wynwood, Miami)

Mantra. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

We’ll be sharing some of the street’s visual cacophony with you in future postings, but for today let’s calm our minds to recover from the harsh conflicting messages of raw commerce crashing into the enormous income gaps and class ruptures everywhere else. These butterflies are expertly rendered, preserved for posterity, floating up from the fray – a stolen moment of tranquility that silences the jackhammers and beeping cash registers.

Mantra. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mantra. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mantra. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Mantra Flies High in Wynwood, Miami

Mantra Flies High in Wynwood, Miami

A bit of sérendipité, really, to be tooling around Wynwood in a holiday mindset and a rental car at the end of the year, and to look up to see Mantra on a cherry picker. We had just seen him in Brooklyn the month before and here he was again, painting freehand, as he does, with such precision and commitment, which he also does.

Mantra. Plate I. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The painting is thoughtful, as you may expect, with each of the collection a butterfly that can be found in Miami, he tells us. Next month he will be in Mexico in the middle of millions of – you know what. Keep going strong, Mantra.

Binomial name, from left to right, top to bottom :

1A Eurema d. daira ♂
1B Eunica Tatila ♀
1C Zerene Cesonia ♀
1D Phoebis Philea ♀
1E Limenitis arthemis astyanax ♀
2A Papilio P. Palames ♂
2B Hypolimnas Misippus ♂
2C Siproeta Stelenes ♂
3A Eurema d. daira ♀
3B Eunica Tatila ♂
3C Zerene Cesonia ♂
3D Phoebis Sennae ♀
3E Eumaeus Atala ♂

Mantra. Plate I. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mantra. Plate II. Detail of a work in progress. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jaime, Mantra, and Steve. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.23.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.23.22

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Worried that voting rights are being stolen from black and brown people in a systematic way across the country? Let Mitch McConnell put your fears to rest.

The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.

Well, that’s a relief. Wait, what?

Mitch, please. Why are you still in office.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street in NYC and Miami, featuring Beautiful Mind, Bella Phame, BK Foxx, Claudia La Bianca, DAK PPP 907, Dek2DX, djaRodney, Gina Kiel, Gold Loxe, JJ Veronis, Lady JDay, Melski, Rumba Art, StyleOne, Tee Pop Art, and Tutto & Niente.

Rumba Art in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tee Pop Art quotes from James Baldwin: “Artists Are Here To Disturb Peace”. Amen. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
…and so Why Aren’t We Yelling?! asks an unidentified artist in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JJ Veronis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lady JDay portrait of Frida Kahlo. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tutto & Niente, Our Lady of Graffiti…Mary is forever the Muse. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Claudia La Bianca in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BK Foxx (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bella Phame in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dek2DX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DjaRodeny in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melski in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
StyleOne in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gina Kiel in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Beautiful Mind in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
New York Paste (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DAK PPP 907 in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Sunrise. Hutchinson Island, Florida. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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1UP Crew Magnum Opus In Wynwood, Miami

1UP Crew Magnum Opus In Wynwood, Miami

It was sunny that particular day in Wynwood, Miami in November of last year. The air was fresh and the humidity mercifully low. The sun rays weren’t piercing one’s shoulders. It was what winter in Miami is supposed to feel like. Dreamy.

That’s how we were feeling; dreamy – when we turned the corner and saw them. A motley crew of five or six men taking on a gargantuan wall in the less noisy part of Wynwood. The congenial 1UP Crew is the Berlin-based masters of the mixed message – here to vandalize, but politely. In this case of course the wall is completely legal, but associates of this notorious crew have been credited/blamed for leaving their marks on walls, trains, water tanks, elevators – anything that strikes their fancy in multiple cities across many continents.

1UP Crew. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The wall was still in progress that day with many more aerosol cans to go. We chatted, took photos, and reported on the encounter HERE. By the time we had to return to NYC, the wall wasn’t completed yet – so we returned to the winter paradise weeks later.

We were glad we pulled ourselves away from the ocean to see this in all its glory. Judging from the description below from one of the 1UP Crew members we think that this wall has it all.

“So it is kind of a movie planet, we don’t know which planet it is,” says one of the 1UP guys, “But it is a planet of the future – and there are all these Metro’s coming up out of the sand along with pyramids and street signs and figures… It’s growing now. I think that we have three more days to paint.”

Up to 13 artists joined in to complete it including members of 1UP Crew and members of the MSG Crew as well as Vlok, Giz, and Fuzi UV TPK crew from Paris.

1UP Crew. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1UP Crew. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1UP Crew. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1UP Crew. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1UP Crew. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.09.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.09.22

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Welcome the first BSA Images of the Week of 2022! How are you feeling? You’re looking great!

The street art parade marches on, perhaps ever clearer in its intent to reflect the mood, the zeitgeist, the intellectual meanderings of the artist class. In the process of demystifying the graffiti and street art scene over the few decades, we’ve long realized that there always will be surprises, no matter how much of the scene you have decoded. That’s what keeps it FREEEESSSSSSSSHHHH!

This week, as the snow is falling in dirty old NYC and as people are rescinding into their homes for another de facto Covid “lockdown”, we discover that artists are hard at work getting out their message, their id, their frustrations, their aspirations, their wit.

May this adventure never end, and may this trail never go cold.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adam Fujita, Anderson Bluu, Dorothy Gale, Ernesto Maranje, ERRE, Ethan Minsker, Fake Banksy, Gold Loxe, Ill Surge, J. Cole, Johann Art, Marka 27, Miss 17, NEST, Praxis VGZ, Salami Doggy, and Winsten Tseng .

Winston Tseng (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita “So Many Beautiful Hearts All In One City” Ain’t that the truth! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nest (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Virgil Abloh memorial in Wynwood, Miami by Ill Surge. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Virgil Abloh memorial in Wynwood, Miami by Johann Art. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Miss 17 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gold Loxe as Frida (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dorothy Gale Has A Posse in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anderson Bluu honors rap legends and hip-hop icons from the 2010s to today. Kendrick Lamar, Drake, J. Cole, and Nicki Minaj. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#boxtruck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erre & Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Marka_27 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ethan Minsker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ernesto Maranje in Wynwood Miami for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salami Doggy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#fakebanksy spotted in the NYC subway. Or is it? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#fakebanksy spotted in the NYC subway. This illegal vendor in the subway is selling exact copies of Banky’s artwork – that was originally placed illegally on someone else’s property. Please, no photos. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. January 2022. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 12.12.21

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.12.21

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The weather is tropical this weekend, like we’re expecting a hurricane – ominous and windy. Maybe its our ongoing fear of runaway inflation, which Fed Chair Jerome Powell is trying to make us forget he called ‘transitory’. That should be the word of 2021. Transitory. Like fanny packs worn diagonally across the chest, or Dua Lipa.

Any great Christmas classics running through your head this year? Christmas in Hollis from Run DMC? Mele Kalikimaka? Mariah Carey? Sorry, we’re in the mood and all these lights and little wonderland displays in the windows of people’s apartments throughout Brooklyn are making us feel romantic for the season, even though most people we know are scaling back this year.

The city’s vaccination rate is 78, and the mayor is requiring more vaccine and mask mandates in private companies and schools. Let’s hope it works, brothers and sisters.

So here’s our regular interview with the street, this week including 4SomeCrew, Buff Monster, Calicho, DAK 907, DOT DOT DOT, Drecks, ERRE, MIDABI, Not Banksy, Paper Monster, Paul Richard, Praxis VGZ, Roachi, Swrve, Urban Ruben, and Zexor.

Buff Monster (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erre (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Erre (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis. Erre. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dot Dot Dot (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dot Dot Dot (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Urban Ruben in Miami for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MIDABI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
After Banksy. Unidentifed artist in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Today, December 12th is the feast of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Patron saint of Mexico (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Today, December 12th is the feast of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Patron saint of Mexico (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This might be an unfinished piece not singed yet. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zexor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hot Tea. ‘PERHAPS” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DAK907 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
4S (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROACHI 4S (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SWRVE 4S (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Paul Richard (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Drecks (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Paper Monster (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In Bitcon We Trust (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Winter 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Wynwood Diary in Post-Covid Cautious Optimism

Wynwood Diary in Post-Covid Cautious Optimism

The street art can double as advertisements, the advertisements can double as street art, and all of it has been supplanted by fevered talk about NFTs, as if the speaker whom you’ve been accosted by invented them. For a scene that likes to consider itself to be on the bleeding edge, this is all a bit disappointingly 2017 to hear, but there you have it.

Yet we are still pleased to see that the neighborhood is popping with more fresh new creativity than last year and you again feel like new things are to be discovered around almost every corner. Oh sure, there are many cultural looters here, but that’s always been the case. It’s good to see that some new transgressive pieces, eye-opening missives, and dripping wet tags are scattered here among the permission-based walls and ghosts from December past. No one knows what the socio-economic future holds, but for now, Wynwood’s holding steady.

Here are a few shots from Jaime Rojo as he made a few laps among the streets.

Ron English. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ron English. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ron English. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sipros. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sipros. Kool Drip. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kool Drip. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lamour Supreme. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lamour Supreme. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle takes a moment from work to talk to her fans. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Buff Monster. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Boy Kong. Work in progress. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Apitatan from 2017. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jacaranda en flor. Wynwood, Miami 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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