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Photos of 2024 on BSA – #7: Optimo NYC and Friends Under the Bridge | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #8: Never Satisfied “Forever Forward” | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #9: Nekst, Guess, and Ethics in Street Art | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #10: Flaco the Owl a Folk Hero for a Minute in NYC | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #11: Support the Kids | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #12: Lady Pink’s Love Letters to the City at UN | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #13: Inkman’s Thin Line | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #14: Plastic Deli Bags and Feeling Homesick | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #15: BK FOXX and a Wonderland of Images | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #16 : Asbestos Seeking Psychological Sanctuary in a House | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
Photos of 2024 on BSA – #17: Hera and a Theater of Street Mythology | Brooklyn Street Art
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and "liked" selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the [...]
BSA HOT LIST 2024: Books For Your Gift Giving | Brooklyn Street Art
As the year comes to a close, we are pleased to present our 14th curated list of books—a reflection of our ongoing commitment to building a world-class library in Berlin. As co-founders of the Martha Cooper Library, our mission is to develop and maintain one of the most comprehensive collections dedicated to art books, photography archives, urban culture studies, street art monographs, [...]
Love Letters to the City: Street Art as Protest, Dialogue, Tribute at UN Berlin. | Brooklyn Street Art
Urban Nation’s Love Letters to the City, curated by Michelle Houston, is both an exhibition and a fulsome, sophisticated incantation. It invites audiences to confront the layered realities of urban life through the interpretation of its anonymous visual rebels, graffiti writers, and street artists and a generous representation of activists. The show embraces the chaotic energy of unsanctioned [...]
Escif’s Urban Manifesto: Art, Activism, and the Everyday / “The Foundations of Harmony and Invention” | Brooklyn Street Art
It would be challenging to extricate Escif’s work from the city and its daily routines. The city, with its cacophonous soundtrack created by its inhabitants' constant movement and the fluidity of their industry and agency, remains central to the artist’s focus and relevance. For Escif, the city is not just a muse but the bedrock of his artistic inspiration, a canvas, and an outlet for [...]
BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC | Brooklyn Street Art
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 [...]
Books in the MCL: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón. “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora” | Brooklyn Street Art
Text: Steven P. Harrington & Jaime Rojo Reprinted from the original review. Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora. Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón.2018 “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora” by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón provides an insightful look into the world of women graffiti artists, challenging the perception that graffiti is a male-dominated [...]
‘End of the Show’: Elisa Capdevila and a Living History Lesson | Brooklyn Street Art
Elisa Capdevila has turned the walls of Barcelona's Paral·lel into a living history lesson with her latest mural, a tribute to the former Teatro Talia. Once a cornerstone of the Sant Antoni neighborhood’s cultural identity, the Talia has long since been erased from the cityscape, but its memory is revived through this large-scale artwork. Situated near the theater's original [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 12.01.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
December has arrived, and with it, a fresh blanket of snow setting the holiday scene up north—perfect for some, but for us, it’s a sign to head south. Art Basel Miami Beach is calling, and the Wynwood District is already buzzing with street artists and weird, wired, and abundant creative energy. It’s shaping up to be another epic graffiti/street art family reunion. If you’re in Miami, come [...]
Books In The MCL: Tokyo Tattoo 1970. Martha Cooper | Brooklyn Street Art
Book review by Steven P. Harrington & Jaime Rojo/Brooklyn Street Art. Martha Cooper Library Martha Cooper. Tokyo Tattoo 1970. 2012. In “Tokyo Tattoo 1970,” photographer Martha Cooper, well-known for her definitive work on New York City’s graffiti scene, applies her ethnographic skills to document traditional Japanese tattooing. This book provides a clear and respectful portrayal of a [...]
Books In The MCL: The Self-Titled “NeSpoon” | Brooklyn Street Art
Book Review by Steven P. Harrington & Jaime Rojo / Brooklyn Street Art for the Martha Cooper Library at Urban Nation Museum, Berlin, Germany. “NeSpoon,” a monograph on the work of the Polish artist, provides a comprehensive examination of her unique integration of lace patterns into urban and natural landscapes. The book, limited to 111 copies, each spanning over 420 pages, showcases the [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 11.24.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Aunt Marge is on the phone to see if your mom can locate the recipe for the cranberry relish dish that she made last year - the one with the grapefruit and fresh ginger. While you're talking to her she reports that your dumb cousin Kinnisha has just announced that she is a vegan so she won't be eating any animal products at Thanksgiving this Thursday. Not a huge surprise. We're [...]
“Above Ground” : How Martin Wong Preserved the Underground Soul of Graffiti | Brooklyn Street Art
Museum of the City of New York PresentsAbove Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection In the heart of the Museum of the City of New York, Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection unveils a vivid and largely underexplored chapter of the city's cultural history. This exhibition pays tribute to Martin Wong—an artist, visionary collector, and tireless advocate [...]
ELFO: Don’t Use This Wall! | Brooklyn Street Art
Elfo is a graffiti writer and social commentator whose work intentionally sidesteps traditional notions of style or technical lettering. This is not about handstyle, friend. Instead, it provokes thoughts about public space, urban neglect, and societal norms around what we value and choose to see. His art invites us to reconsider our perceptions of the built environment, blending irreverence [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 11.17.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Right out of the gate, Pres-elect Trump is telling us that one must destroy the government to save it, just like the towns in Vietnam in the 70s. His candidate for a brand new Department of Government Ethics, Elon Musk, says they have a 'Mandate to Delete" cumbersome rules and regulations. Trump's selections to head various arms of government this week also include RFK Jr. and [...]
SpY’s “ORB” Lands in Montreal: A Mirror of Street Art’s Evolution | Brooklyn Street Art
SpY. "ORB". Place des Arts. Montreal, Canada. (photo © Ruben P. Bescos) SpY, a prominent public artist hailing from Madrid, has unveiled his latest sculptural work titled “ORB" in Montreal’s renowned Place des Arts. SpY’s evolution from his roots in the graffiti scene in the 1980s to a creator of large-scale public installations reflects the broader trajectory of street art, [...]
Birch Bark, Rosehips, and a Family Affair: Faring Purth’s New Chapter in Mural Form | Brooklyn Street Art
In her latest mural, Faring Purth delivers a powerful reflection on connection, continuity, and the complexity of evolving relationships—a true “Family Affair.” Created in her new home of Berkeley, California, this latest work is a pearl in her artistic journey, reflecting the changing dynamics of her life, which now includes two young children. More than just another mural, it is a living [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 11.10.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Well, the world ended this week—again. Yet here we are, still standing, and so are you. It turns out Donald Trump has successfully rallied the resentment of those feeling abandoned by the system, and they now firmly believe he’s their champion. Meanwhile, disbelieving technocrats and exasperated suburbanites are left shaking their heads at the audacity of those who elected this populist [...]
Réunion Island’s Evolution: Eko and the Graffiti/Street Art Festival That’s Making Waves | Brooklyn Street Art
A place you may not have heard of, Réunion Island has quickly become a remarkable hotspot for urban art, largely due to the Réunion Graffiti Festival. This annual gathering showcases a rich range of talent from graffiti and street art communities worldwide, offering something refreshingly unique for this type of festival. Eko, the festival’s founder, extends an open invitation: “Come to [...]
Transforming Tafí Viejo: Argentina’s First International Street Art Festival in Tucumán | Brooklyn Street Art
The Circuito Mural: Encuentro Internacional de Arte Urbano just wrapped up its first run from October 1 to 5, 2024, in Villa Obrera, Tafí Viejo, Tucumán, Argentina. This aesthetically strong and community powered event turned the neighborhood into a new open-air gallery, with new murals from 13 artists hailing from across Argentina and as far as Siberia, Russia. The lineup had both fresh [...]
BSA Images Of The Week 11.06.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Set your clocks back one hour today. A chilly but warm NYC welcome to the 50,000+ marathon runners from around the globe as they journey through the dirty, potholed streets of all five boroughs in this rudely friendly, alluring, and romantically gritty city. We've already forgotten that we lost the World Series this week and are concentrating instead on [...]
Happy Halloween From BSA | Brooklyn Street Art
This spooky time of year brings costumes to the streets and hidden fears to the surface, revealing characters deep within. Just days before a national election that feels pivotal to many, voters express fear and uncertainty toward both major candidates. In the world of street art, symbols of the underworld linger year-round, waiting to be uncovered. Here, we present a collection of recent [...]
Innerfields’ New Berlin Mural: A Tribute to Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Remembrance | Brooklyn Street Art
The newest mural by Innerfields marks a powerful addition to Berlin’s urban cityscape, installed as part of the ONE WALL initiative by Urban Nation. This Berlin-based street art duo, Holger Weißflog and Jakob Tory Bardou, has created a moving tribute to Dorothee and Harald Poelchau, who bravely sheltered those persecuted during the Nazi era. The mural, located on the façade of a Gewobag [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.27.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
🎃 Halloween Weekend is Here! 🎃 Most little ghouls, goblins, Joe Biden Zombies, and P Diddy Daycare Workers made their rounds last night, but let’s be honest—the spooky, silly, and ffft-up freaky fun isn’t likely to leave us soon! Costumed characters will be haunting the city all week, building up to the main event next Thursday, October 31. That’s when the East Village Halloween Parade—a true [...]
Pleasant Murals at the Festival d’Arts al Carrer de Calldetenes in Spain | Brooklyn Street Art
The Festival d'Arts al Carrer de Calldetenes (FACC 2024), held in late April, has become a celebrated cultural event in the town of Calldetenes, located about 60 kilometers north of Barcelona. Organized by Associació La Pera with support from the Ajuntament de Calldetenes, this annual event blends various artistic disciplines, but murals are undeniably its centerpiece. Lily Brick. Carrer [...]
Lapiz Paints “Rainbow Nation” in Paderborn, Germany | Brooklyn Street Art
"Lapiz, known for his poignant social commentary through street art, has once again made his mark with Rainbow Nation, a striking new mural at the Secret City Festival in Paderborn, Germany. This time, he tackles the urgent issues of division, intolerance, and the rising tide of far-right ideology sweeping across Europe. In response, Lapiz turns to the colors of the LGBT rainbow flag to [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.20.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York is slamming, as ever, when it comes to new street art and graffiti popping up in expected and unexpected places. Here's our weekly conversation with the street, this week featuring: The Yok, Sheryo, Lexi Bella, Calicho Art, Humble, IMK, Manuel Alejandro, EXR, Zoot, Great Boxers, Thobekk, Aaron Wrinkle, OTOM, Poor Rupert, Paige Bowman, Elena [...]
Fabio Petani : Nature-Inspired Mural for Oulu, Finland’s Bid for European Capital of Culture 2026 | Brooklyn Street Art
As part of Oulu, Finland's preparations to become the European Capital of Culture in 2026, Italian street artist Fabio Petani has created a stunning new mural titled Ferrous Sulfate, Achillea Millefolium & Lathyrus Palustris in this city that blends cutting-edge technology, a vibrant cultural scene, and scenic natural surroundings. This work, commissioned by Upeart and curated by a [...]
Graffiti as Concept: Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt’s Impact on 1960s New York’s Streets | Brooklyn Street Art
Special guest Ted Riederer shares the story of a New York artist who, as a gay street youth, made his mark with bold, conceptual graffiti. Blending street culture with high-concept art, his early works challenged boundaries, reshaped graffiti history, and paved the way for a pioneering career in immersive installations and social activism. by Ted Riederer Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, whose work is [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 10.13.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Did you see the Northern Lights in Brooklyn skies this week? Did you see Scott LoBaido installing “Trump Crossing” signs in Manhattan? Or Johnny Depp’s new “A Bunch of Stuff” gallery show in Chelsea? Did you see P Diddy leaving a Brooklyn jail to request bail for a third time? New York is so proud. The beat on the street is washed in autumn sunlight, cooler [...]
SNIK Stencils “Still Life” In Manchester | Brooklyn Street Art
Manchester's Northern Quarter is known for its vibrant street art scene (including the Cities of Hope festival), independent music venues, and creative businesses that occupy its historic, repurposed buildings. This eclectic neighborhood has become a cultural hub, drawing visitors with its large-scale murals and a mix of alternative shops, cafes, and record stores. Despite the [...]