New York, New York, in the thick of summer. The heat is heavy with humidity, smells of hotdogs, marijuana, perfume, piss. The flat screen sunglasses now on every sweet face hide the glances and stares of the voracious, the vacuous, the visionary, the vexed, and those voluntarily enraptured by romance. Again we take refuge under a tree, on a bench, in the grass with our dog, in the frozen food section with our kids, on the sunbaked and garbage strewn sand in Coney Island, on the fire escape with our swollen-lipped and rosy cheeked lover. And everywhere is art and architecture and stoop sales and thumping music and jackhammers and the swooping yell of “gooooooooaaaaaaaalllll!” from a nearby sports bar during this month of the World Cup.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Alex Proba, Arkane, Blanco, City Kitty, David Hollier, Invader, Irak, Jason Naylor, LMNOPI, Mowcka, Phoebe New York, Renee Caoulette, Rubin 415, Staino, and Stikman.
Top image: The surrealist view from Renee Caoulette (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Phoebe New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blanco (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Arkane (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rubin 415 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rubin 415 (photo © Jaime Rojo
Alex Proba (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Hollier (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A new advertising campaign uses images of local people to humanize itself. Citizens Of The Bowery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Irak (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Please help us to ID this artist(s) (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mowcka and her friend are having a good hair day… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Be Who You Are…amen… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Staino (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
With the inauguration of the very successful Domino Park in Williamsburg and some of the scaffolding now down some hidden parts of the East River are coming to view again… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Grand Central Station. Manhattan, NYC. July 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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