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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.25.17
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‘Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017’’ it’s called, because “Kill The Poor” was not testing well in focus groups? Luckily, most people will never get sick or old, so this shouldn’t be a problem. It’s LGBTQ Pride weekend in New York, the home of the original Stonewall Inn where all the colorful queens bashed back […]
“Street Art” by Ed Bartlett: A Quick Primer for the World Traveler
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Since the early 70s Lonely Planet publishing has made guidebooks for travelers of the world, enabling people to gain a greater understanding and to appreciate localities, cultures, and histories. Ed Bartlett now adds to this vast compendium of understanding a concise and varied survey of Street Art from his vantage point as an avid bicyclist, […]
BSA Film Friday: 06.23.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Pizzeria Da Cane Morto 2. Miss Van – La Symphonie des Songes 3. Berlin Kidz x 1UP in Berlin 4. Cinta Vidal / RAD Napa BSA Special Feature: Canemorto – Pizzeria Da Cane Morto So it’s […]
Coney Art Walls Class of 2017
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With ten fresh new murals, Coney Art Walls 2017 has made its official debut for summer. Starting this past weekend with the Mermaid Parade in full swing with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein as Queen and King and aquatic beauties in shimmering costumes wending their way through the pavement paradise by the sea. The new […]
Exploring From Coney To Harlem: Fresh Art on The Streets This Summer in NYC
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Summer brings people out onto the streets. New Yorkers especially love to congregate on corners, stoops, public parks and plazas, sidewalks and on the streets to soak in the sun and the excitement of summer after its long winter season. With that in mind we want to point you to what’s new on the streets […]
“No Means No” Performance Brings Bloody Handprints to Houston-Bowery Wall
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“Resist!” and “No Means No!” were the messages at the Houston-Bowery Wall on Sunday as the sun descended at the end of the weekend while a silent and dramatic performance organized by Jasmine Wahi played out before it – and on it. Whether or not people had accepted artist David Choe’s apology a day earlier […]
ECB Brings “DARYA” to Evry, France for Wall Street Art Festival
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German realist painter and Street Artist Hendrik Beikrich is moving his gaze from Morocco to Siberia. Hendrik Beikrich AKA ECB for Wall Street Art in Evry. Grand Paris Sud, France. June 2017. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery – Paris) Known for his project “Tracing Morocco”, where he got to know local tradespeople and craft makers whose […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.18.17 / Selections From Welling Court 2017
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“All’s Well That Ends in Impeachment #ShakespeareInTheTrump” “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” “Twelfth Bankruptcy #ShakespeareintheTrump” New York’s jewel of free theater in Central Park is actually trending on Twitter, believe it or not. The production of Julius Ceasar features a Trumpian-looking lead character and it has inflamed people who haven’t heard of Shakespeare […]
Artist David Choe Apologizes for Statements About Rape and Says Story Was Fictional
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“I have ZERO history of sexual assault. I am deeply sorry for any hurt I’ve brought to anyone through my past words. Non-consensual sex is rape and it is never funny or appropriate to joke about.” Artist David Choe has responded to rape accusations that have fueled an ongoing conversation on the street and in […]
BSA Film Friday: 06.16.17
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Now screening :
1. PASSAGE / From Wall to Wall
2. Occupied in Bethlehem - from Fifth Wall TV
3. BYG //12 + 1 // Contorno Urbano // Barcelona
4. 2KM3 Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc Contemporary Art Platform
“ONCE” Deconstructs and Reconstructs His Tag for 12 + 1 Project In Barcelona
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Abstraction is something we spoke recently with French graffiti writer Jeroen Erosie about in Berlin, and here in Barcelona we find that ONCE is interested in deconstruction of the revered letter form as well. Even hardcore lovers of letters like to blow them up, explode them, inflate them, deflate them, stream line and distill them […]
Lucy Sparrow Opens an All-Felt Bodega in NYC : “8 ‘Till Late”
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“Let’s see…Champagne Moet and Campari are selling well, Vagisil we’re very low on. Brooklyn Lager we’ve had to re-stock,” Store Manager Jo Brooks ticks off the hot sales of the day here in Manhattan’s newest deli. Lucy Sparrow 8 ‘Till Late (photo © Jaime Rojo) “And randomly, the cassette tapes have been flying out of here,” […]
Selections from Farm Country: GarGar2 Festival in Penelles, Spain.
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A well branded cultural initiative brings for the second edition a festival of art, music, craft beer, food trucks, workshops to the village of Penelles in Spain, including 900 square meters of murals in this town with farmer roots and low one story buildings. It has become almost a formula for cities and municipalities to […]
Bifido and a Secret Reading Place Under the Bridge
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This new piece under a freeway bridge by Italian Street Artist Bifido may remind you of summer vacation and the chance to let your mind follow a fantastic story. Maybe “Mystery of the Golden Temple: Thailand,” or “Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter” or “Brown Girl Dreaming.“ Bifido. “In my Room”. Naples, Italy. June 2017. (photo © […]
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.11.17
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“Yes, I’m an infowarrior,” says the African American yelling about how CNN is promoting Sharia Law in downtown Manhattan for the #MarchAgainstSharia and a short distance away someone is wrapping the “Fearless Girl” statue with a black burka. The infowarrior is wearing a red “Make America Free” baseball hat and very much seems like he […]
David Choe Paints Houston-Bowery Wall, Accusers Call Him “Rapist” in NYC
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Artist David Choe painted the famed Houston-Bowery Wall last week in New York and the accompanying frenzy that often follows this Street Art/graffiti event ensued. The installation of his signature abstract/gestural/figurative layered mind-meld took roughly seven days, and some nights. David Choe. Houston/Bowery Wall. Manhattan, NYC. June 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Photographer Martha Cooper […]
BSA Film Friday: 06.09.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. NIMI – The Last Travel 2. Art Meets Milk: BustArt . Hombre . Carl Kenz 3. Said Dokins in Mexico for Letrástica Festival 4. Urban Nation. We Broke Night 19.05.2017 BSA Special Feature: NIMI – The […]
Laura Llaneli “OUR ACTIONS BECOMING THE POLICY”
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A New Wall Translates a Rockers Lecturing Tirade to His Audience Aural. Visual. Two modes of exchange and experiencing the world that interest artist Laura Llaneli, the Grenada born painter of this months’ 12+1 project wall in in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona. Laura Llaneli. Our Actions Become The Policy. Contorno Urbano “12 x 1” […]
Never Crew Brings the Bear in Satka, Russia
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Never Crew is in the Ural Mountains in Satka, Russia with a message about man’s disconnection with nature. Their murals often contain one large animal, and this time a bear takes center stage – rather papered over by industrial “progress,” perhaps? NeverCrew. “Baring Machine” Satka Street Art Festival. Satka, Russia. May 2017. (photo © NeverCrew) […]
Icy & Sot and a Man of Trash in Tbilisi, Georgia
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15 centuries old, Tbilisi may not last as long as this garbage man sculpture by Street Artists Icy & Sot. Icy & Sot. “Human reflection on nature”. Tbilisi, Georgia. May 2017. (photo © Icy & Sot) “It took us only 10 minutes to collect all this trash because there was so much of it – […]...Read More
Marx and Engels Statues Re-Skinned & Re-Located : Various & Gould
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“Why do you glorify and duplicate these two criminals?! They shouldn’t have a monument at all. Next you’re doing Hitler?” Various & Gould. “City Skins – Marx and Engels” Berlin, May 2017. (photo © Boris Niehaus) Various and Gould try to paraphrase some of the comments they received from passersby in a park near the […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.04.17
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Happy Sunday everybody! Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Case Maclaim, Domdirtee, drsc0, Flood, Gregos, Mr. Toll, Pixel Pancho, Resistance is Female, Rodk, Suits Won, and XORS. Suits Won (photo © Jaime Rojo) A new collaboration with Pixel Pancho and Case Maclaim during the Bushwick Collective Block Party this weekend. (photo […]
David Walker in Lieusaint, France for “Wall Street Art”
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“Wall Street Art”: The merging together of two phrases (Wall Street, Street Art) that never had much to do with each other, but now sometimes do. Additionally it is the newly branded mural program/festival across 24 municipalities in France under the artistic direction of Jourdain Gautier, whose name you may recognize from his founding and […]
BSA Film Friday: 06.02.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1.“BROKEN MOTOR” by Soniconoclasm BSA Special Feature: “BROKEN MOTOR” by Soniconoclasm Today just one video that isn’t Street Art. But it is the street. And it is art. For graffiti writers and Street Artists who traverse the […]
“Brighter Days Are Coming” at St. Petersburg Street Art Museum
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A New Exhibition Marks the 1917 Revolution in St. Petersburg at the Street Art Museum This spring, a hundred years since the Russian Revolution, a new Street Art inspired exhibition in St. Petersburg may reflect the ambivalence that competing storylines produce in the re-telling of history. A hundred years since the workers movement displaced the […]
Skount Paints “Protection” for Future Amsterdam Street Art/Urban Contemporary Art Museum
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Entrepreneur and visionary Peter Ernst Coolen continues afoot with his plans for Amsterdam’s Street Art/Urban Contemporary art museum sometime next year at NDSM Wharf, and a number of artists have been preparing new works for the space and the great occasion. Today we have a sneak peak at the huge-scale canvas by one of the […]
Eating Plastic with Louis Masai, Whales, Sharks in Cape Cod and L.A.
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These Animals Are Eating All the Plastic You are Throwing Away. Yuck. London Street Artist Louis Masai has just returned to the US to do three murals – one in alliance with the Right Whale Research Association (R.W.R.A) in Cape Cod Massachusetts, and two in Los Angeles where he is currently having a solo show […]
Bien Urbain 2017: Ericailcane and His New Barbed-Wire Story
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Just in time for his exhibition opening at musée du temps de Besançon, Italian Street Artist Ericailcane has just finished his latest wall with the Bien Urbane festival and the story it tells is troubling. Ericailcane. Detail. Bien Urbain Festival 2017. Besançon, France. May 2017. (photo © Elisa Murcia Artengo) The Bologna native whose animal […]
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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.30.17
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“Resistance is here to stay, welcome to your 100th day” – said people in Climate Marches across the country yesterday to President Exxon-Lockheed. God, has it only been 100 days? It feels like 1,000. Nevertheless, there are a lot of new politically themed pieces popping up on the street regularly, along with completely apolitical and […]
Carlo McCormick, “Magic City: The Art Of The Street”
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“Nature is a petrified magic city.” With apologies to Novalis, this magic city of New York is too alive to be considered petrified – unless you are talking about being petrified by the sight of five rats on the subway tracks while you wait for the M train. Carlo McCormick. Magic City: The Art Of […]
BSA Film Friday 04.28.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Colouring The World. A Film By Okuda San Miguel 2. Borondo “Golden Gate” 3. Elbi Elem in Barcelona for 12+1 P 4. Chip Thomas in Santa Fe, New Mexico at Biocultura BSA Special Feature: Colouring The […]
Swoon “To Accompany Something Invisible”
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A good way to familiarize oneself with the additional dimensions that Swoon has taken on since you last caught up with her is the Street Artists show called To Accompany Something Invisible newly exhibited at Allouche Gallery in New York. Swoon. “Sasu and Kasey”. To Accompany Something Invisible. Allouche Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Whether […]
“Resistance is Female” Takes Over Phone Booths in New York
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The decentralized Resistance, as it turns out, is a majority of Americans. And leading the charge are women and girls. So it makes perfect sense that a new grassroots takeover of telephone booth advertising in New York is a campaign called, “Resistance is Female”. Organizers and artists say that the ad takeover project is putting […]
Skulls Reign On the Street and In Art Shows, Threatening and Humble Reminders
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Skulls. We see them on the streets and recently many at art fairs. The Memento Mori of the streets, these skulls reminding us that one day we all will be dead. Every single one. These are occasional, unplanned in pattern, surprising in appearance on the public stage perhaps. Andrew Schoultz at Volta New York 2017. (photo […]
Marina Capdevila Brings Her Seniors to the Winery
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When muralist Marina Capdevila is in Miami her senior ladies are in a convertible heading to the beach and when in Brooklyn they buy a hamburger and fries on the sidewalk. Now visiting a winery cooperative just south of her native Barcelona, the illustrator chooses men and donkeys. Marina Capdevila. Gratallops, Spain. April 2017. (photo […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.23.17
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Boom! There it is! This is springtime and there is a lot of new stuff popping up like tulips and out like cherry blossoms. If you didn’t get to the Martha Cooper opening at Steven Kasher gallery this week it is open during the week- a great cross section of her work during the last […]
Anna Maga for “12 + 1” Project In Barcelona
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Saturday is a good day to get into your own creative projects and try stuff that you don’t have time to do usually. We always like to walk past the local walls to see what people are creating. Checking in on this community wall in Sant Feliu de Llobregat to see what’s going up in […]
BSA Film Friday 04.21.17 – Vids from Nuart Aberdeen 2017
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. ADD FUEL – Nuart Aberdeen 2017 2. Alice Pasquini – Nuart Aberdeen 2017 3. Isaac Cordal – Nuart Aberdeen 2017 4. M-City in Aberdeen for Nuart 2017 via BrooklynStreetArt.com BSA Special Features: Vids from Aberdeen Doug […]
“Martha Cooper” Solo Exhibition Reveals Many Unseen “Action Shots”
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An intrepid photographer who has launched a million dreams (and perhaps a few thousand careers) in graffiti and Street Art with her photography that captured crucial and seminal aspects of our culture that others overlooked. That is just one way of seeing this brand new collection of images by Martha Cooper that is spread across […]
Nuart Aberdeen 2017 Already Has Locals Saying “Haste Ye Back!”
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The sky is still twilight blue above the streets of Aberdeen at 21:00 this time of year and as you walk the city’s edge on the beach of the North Sea the winds pick up with a chilly bluster. Of course, that’s just for this minute. In a half hour it may be a gentle […]
NeverCrew in Hong Kong for “Discordant”
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“…our collective obligations towards our environment.” You wouldn’t think the phrase would need to be said, yet it sounds revolutionary in a consumer-driven, market-driven society. The Swiss duo NEVERCREW are clear in their intentions. As ever. Nevercrew “Discordant” Above Second Gallery. Hong Kong. 18th March – 22nd April (photo © Jaime Rojo) The Discordant exhibition […]
BSA Images of the Week : Nuart Aberdeen Edition
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Jetsonorama Wraps a House with Pots in Penland, North Carolina
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BSA Images OF The Week: Nuart Aberdeen Edition
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End of Passover for many, the best day of Easter weekend for others, just another spring day for still others, and a fine finish to our little Aberdeen excursion. As we ready ourselves to charge forward on small streets in this city that has a severe case of Multiple Weather Disorder, we’re bringing scarves, gloves, […]
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Tours, Films, & Fight Night : Nuart x Aberdeen x BSA Dispatch 3
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“I have two questions,” said one smartly sweatered and coiffed lady of a certain age. She had grabbed an elbow as we waded through the 350-person tour that we were leading through Aberdeen streets with Jon Reid. “Who gave you all permission to paint your pictures on these walls?” she asked. “And number two: When […]
BSA Film Friday Special Edition: Nuart x Aberdeen x BSA
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Aabody* at the club got tipsy* last night in the Anatomy Rooms, a former academic space for students at University of Aberdeen that still has random skeletons and 3-D plastic diagrams of humans cut in half. Julien de Casabianca. Outings Project. Nuart Aberdeen April 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Anatomy Rooms is now an artist-run […]
Nuart X Aberdeen x BSA: Dispatch 1
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This white and grey skurry appears rather plump as he waddles across the stone road in Aberdeen toward the cherry picker that holds Jasmine from Herakut aloft as she paints the new piece on the concave wall. Skurry is the Doric term for seagull, and Doric is a dialect of the North East of Scotland […]
Chip Thomas Invoking Life Back Into a House for 2017 Joshua Treenial
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Curators Kóan Jeff Baysa and Bernard Leibov selected about 15 artists and collaborators to create installations for the 2nd edition of the Joshua Treenial, which opened the first weekend of April and today we have one of the artists who showed his work, Street Artist Chip Thomas aka Jetsonorama. An initiative to educate about ecological […]
Banksy Goes Into The Hospitality Business in Palestine
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Hotel, museum, funhouse? Political/social satire, self-advertisement, genius? All of it and more. Street Artist and showman Banksy’s team of advisors, marketers, fabricators, and assistants have already mounted a vast museum show, a theme park, a treasure hunt across New York, among other events. When it comes to creating spectacle and courting controversy, Banksy and company […]
Grandpa Gives Thumbs Down : EDJINN for 12 + 1 Project In Barcelona
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Grandpa is giving you the thumbs down. Street Artist EDJINN from Barcelona just created this wall that clearly expresses it’s dislike for so-called Social media and “community engagement”. EDJINN. Dislike. Contorno Urbano “12 x 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo © Clara Antón) “I want to contrast old people with new technologies, social networks and the new […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.09.17
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Hooray! Spring is here in New York again. That means daffodils and crocuses are sprouting up among the soda cans and candybar wrappers and cigarette butts in the park’s gardens, and new proud or furtive aerosol missives are being sprayed on crumbling walls and phone booths are getting hi-jacked with posters by artists and galleries […]
“The Intimacy Project” Gets Close to the Artist with Fer Alcala
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“…the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.” ~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Twee Muizen. Nau Bostik, Barcelona. (photo © Fer Alcalá. OlympusE510) Somewhere between celebrity and anonymity sits the Street Artist, depending on their wishes and fortune. We always feel lucky to see the artwork first anonymously on the street, […]
BSA Film Friday 04.07.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. The Haus – Lunatix Dance 2. Mobilize Walls (Against the Trump Wall) 3. The Yok & Sheryo: The Golden Triangle 4. Pixel Pancho in Hong Kong for HKwalls 2017 via BrooklynStreetArt.com BSA Special Feature: The Haus […]
Swoon’s New Drawings for Heliotrope Foundation Benefit with BSA in NYC
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Here is the first public look at eight of the new thirteen drawings by Swoon which she made while in Haiti a couple of week ago. She is donating her own work to aid Heliotrope Foundation programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania. These drawings, along with the limited run prints from six international artists will […]
Li-Hill x Swoon x BSA : Unveiling New “Crumbling As We Climb” Print
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Li-Hill which he made especially to aid Heliotrope programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Swoon and Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th, at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can come. […]
Miss Van x Swoon x BSA : Unveiling Masked Ladies for Heliotrope Prints
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Miss Van which she made especially to aid Heliotrope programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Swoon and Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th, at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can […]
Faith XLVII x Swoon x BSA and Her New Print for Heliotrope
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Faith XLVII which she made especially to aid the programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can come. Faith […]
Icy & Sot x Swoon x BSA : Unveiling “Unforced Hijab” for Heliotrope
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Icy & Sot which they made especially to aid the programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can come. […]
Tavar Zawacki (Above) X Swoon X BSA : Unveiling “Metamorphosis” Print for Heliotrope
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Tavar Zawacki (aka Above) which he made especially to aid the programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can […]
Case Maclaim x Swoon x BSA – The New “Sunshower” Print for Heliotrope
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Here is the first public look at the new print by Case Maclaim which he made especially to aid the programs in Haiti and Braddock, Pennsylvania for Heliotrope Prints. The limited run print will be released this week, April 6th at a pop up show opening in Manhattan and we hope you can come. Case […]
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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.12.17
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A fun time on the streets this week in New York and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere as parts of spring infuse the air with excitement and hormones – later to be drowned in rain, or smothered under snow! The rolling dumpster fire keeps frightening and perplexing everyone and we are gradually figuring out that […]
Faring Purth and “Grace” in Forest Park (Chicago)
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“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.” ~Rudyard Kipling We mention this Kipling quote in this description of Street Artist Faring Purth because a.) she often seems like she’s plucked out of a traveling adventure from a Kipling tale, b.) her instincts for creating new pieces are frequently on-point and a […]
BSA Film Friday: 03.10.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Rone: The Alpha Project 2. FKDL – Petites Chroniques Urbaines 3. Irene Lopez León: 12+1 Contorno Urbano 4. The Batcave, Henry Chalfant, on The New York Times 5. Isaac Cordal “Giza Komedia” BSA Special Feature: Rone: […]
Pejac is Looking for “Redemption” with Particle Board
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Each of us is looking for redemption, or probably will be. At least that appears to be the theme for the new series of works by Spanish Street Artist PEJAC, a few shots of which we have today from his work on particle board in the studio. “Each drawing in this ‘Redemption’ series are a […]
RUN: “Time Traveller Artist Man” Tells All With His Hands
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“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Carl Jung Giacomo Bufarini AKA RUN Time Traveller Artist Man Unicorn Publishing Group. London. UK. 2016 The founder of analytical psychology would have looked at the hands of RUN and perhaps understood more about his lifelong psychological process than the […]
Slap It! Slick Stickers Spread Across City Surfaces Speak and Surprise
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Stickers, or slaps, are small but formidable graphic and text messages, especially when massed together on a doorway or light pole. They are also fast and surreptitiously placed, as simple as a gesture, undetectable in their ease of application. A board covered with stickers at Urban Nation Museum For Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin. (photo […]
“MADRID ME MATA”: Another Look at “Urvanity”
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“MADRID ME MATA…in a good sense,” says Fernando Alcalá Losa, the avid Barcelona based photographer of street culture. He doesn’t literally mean that the Spanish capital is deadly, but rather speaks of his devotion to Madrids’ energy, its possibility, its history, its people, and to its art. The torrid affairs of the heart are invariably […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 03.05.17
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We had a chance at Spring this week, and then it blew away. We’re back to the Antarctic for a few days. NYC was inundated by art fairs as well, which was swell. Volta, Scope, Clio, Spring/Break – which was surprisingly not political or contentious, given its rather outsider status. Fair talk was glum, attendance […]
New ROBBBB Nude Figures Playing on Beijing Walls : Virtual & Candid
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Beijing based Street Artist ROBBBB continues to bring people to the streets in his city by way of self portraits and art models. The immediacy of the selfie and photo apps has rather eclipsed the traditional methods of figurative presentation and the inclusion of cartoon characters tells you that ROBBBB is fully immersed in youth […]
BSA Film Friday: 03.03.17
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Now screening :
1. Icy & Sot "Plastic Shells"
2. NWO 3 - ABIK "Gestural"
3. Low Bros #sweet15s Episode 9 / Seattle
4. NUART / Aberdeen 2017
Nuart Aberdeen 2017: Full Roster of Artists Confirmed
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And then there were 11. With yesterday’s official announcement that Norwegian artist Martin Whatson and Belgian artist Jaune will be participating this April at NUART / Aberdeen the full line up of artists has been announced. It’s 11 international artists from 10 different countries, sort of like a New York melting pot in Scotland over […]
Spring / Break 2017 : This Years’ Times Square Show in Corporate Office Space
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Braving the crowds at the 2017 Spring/Break show means meandering the floor plan of former corporate offices and encountering the daydreams of artists who usually work as temps here. After traversing the un-grand lobby and showing your ID, this high-flying glass and steel Times Square fantasy flips the lights on the funhouse as soon as […]
A “Secret Dinner” at the Nascent UN in Berlin
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Since its explosion of pigment and hue on subway cars and in the streets of New York and Philadelphia a half century ago to its spread to the hundreds of cities worldwide, the truly grassroots movement of Urban Art refuses to be owned by any one city or one people, insisting upon making its own […]
“Urvanity” Fair Opens in Madrid, 68 Artists + Galleries + Walls + Panels
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You may not realize upon first glance through the series of modular white walled temporary gallery rooms, but this fine art on display all has origins in street practice. Over the past long weekend Madrid’s Urvanity fair at The Palacio Neptuno showcased a sweeping cross-selection of crisply framed names – many of which are being […]
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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.26.17
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Always good to get to Berlin to see what waves of text and pattern and outrage and snark and myriad metaphor are more-or-less relentlessly rippling across buildings and empty lots. The rippling effect was swelled by 4 days of rain, which makes windows streak with rivlets and wheat-pastes peel from the top, leaning forward and […]
Sixe Paredes: Future-Folk Geometry In Barcelona
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The Future-Folk Geometrist named Sixe Paredes is in Madrid at Palacio Neptuno this weekend for the Urvanity commercial art fair but today we have a look at a recent large scale pared he painted for the Open Walls Conference in Barcelona recently. Sixe Paredes. Open Walls Conference 2016. Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena) […]
BSA Film Friday: 02.24.17
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Kate Tempest – “Europe Is Lost” 2. DESCUBRIENDO NUESTRA HISTORIA – Discovering Our History (Chile) 3. Cane Morto: Grimy Drawings With High Precision Tools. 4. Bezt X Natalia Rak in collaboration with Thinkspace. Film by Birdman […]
Johannes Mundinger Painting in Mexico City for “Wall Dialogue II”
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Berlin based Street Artist and abstract impressionist Johannes Mundinger just spent a month in Mexico City as part of WALL DIALOGUE II painting in collaboration with Blo and talking with other artists and the community mainly about the new president in the US and how it is affecting things in Mexico. Johannes Mundinger . Blo. […]
Rough.eq Creates Miniature Refugee Boats in Basel, Switzerland
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As much of Europe is actually the recipient of refugees arriving in boats from war-torn countries, this image of a small boat filled past its capacity with people has a lot of relevance to people in Basel, Switzerland who spot them. Rough.eq. Basel, Switzerland. 2017. (photo © Bernhard Chiquet) The tiny concrete sculptures by a […]
BAST: “New Works” Are Vital, Animated at Allouche Gallery
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Bast. Untitled Paper and Stuff 1, 2016. Allouche Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo) The first full show of studio work by Brooklyn Street Artist Bäst in a gallery in about four years declares that the artist is currently running loose with an intoxicating freedom of gesture and brush strokes and character that reaches back to […]
“NUART Aberdeen” Announced for April, BSA is There With You
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| FIRST ARTISTS ANNOUNCED | NUART TALKS PROGRAM | BSA FILM FRIDAY LIVE | LIVE ARTIST INTERVIEWS | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | FIGHT NIGHT RETURNS | | SPECIAL FILMS THROUGHOUT EASTER WEEKEND AT BELMONT THEATRE | NUART in Stavanger Norway has been distinguishing itself as a top-notch series of events showcasing Street Art and graffiti culture […]
BSA Images Of The Week: 02.20.17
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We have a lot to show you this week of art from the street, museum, and studio. This horrid and chaotic political environment is proving to be fertile soil for the growth of politically themed works by artists everywhere. We start todays’ posting with the image above created with the simplicity of a mirror held […]
Buff Monster says “Stay Melty”
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Paint drips and ice cream drips: What flavor would you like? We have strawberry, cherry, coconut… Buff Monster Stay Melty Gingko Press. Berkeley, CA. 2015 If you haven’t seen Buff Monster and his melty crew on walls in the mid-twenty-teens then you have been looking at the sidewalk for loose change and lost earrings too […]
BSA Film Friday: 02.17.17
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Now screening :
1. BEGR: Snow Painting
2. Gonzalo Borondo - ANIMAL
3. 2017 Women's March from 50/50 Skatepark
4. What's Your Story? PREZ
Icy & Sot, Razor Wire & Flowers Along a Wall in Miami
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By festooning foreboding razor wire with decorative flourishes of welcome, Icy & Sot invert a symbol of exclusion and fear. The effect is shocking in its embrace of joy and color and life; the surreal visual combining two opposing views of a border that uses their contrast for unusual illumination. Icy & Sot “Imagine A […]
“ALL BIG LETTERS” : Exhibition of Style, Tools, and Technique of Graffiti
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It’s called ALL BIG LETTERS but it could easily be called ALL BIG DREAMS because the outward techniques, the history, and the tools of the trade of graffiti on display at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery all lead to more internal aspirational matters. All Big Letters curated by RJ Rushmore at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Philadelphia, […]
“Love Is Freedom” Locked: Valentines Day in Berlin
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“A padlock on a bridge is considered as a proof of love in many cultures, but we all know that the key to a successful relationship is freedom,” says conceptual artist and Street Artist Aïda Gomez when talking about her simple text installation below. Just in time for Valentine’s day, a Berlin bridge gets this […]
“Liberate the Child Within” Roc Blackblock for 12 + 1 in Barcelona
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Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Not only is it a lyric from a 90s pop song, it is a truth that people learn everyday to liberate themselves from attitudes and world views that they’ve accepted but now want to let go of. Roc Blackblock. Contorno Urbano “12 x 1” 2017. Barcelona. (photo […]
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