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The Suburban Writer: The Sidewalk Artist | Brooklyn Street Art
The Sidewalk Artist. Directed by David Velez & Brandon Rivera via Vimeo. (image still from the video) You’re used to spotting it on city walls, rolling trucks, the back of a traffic sign — the marks of those who feel compelled to leave a trace. The Sidewalk Artist, a new short directed by David Velez and Brandon Rivera, introduces us to a character whose canvas is neither brick nor steel, [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.31.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! This is the last weekend of the summer for some, a celebration of workers' rights for others. Labor Day's parade began in 1882 in Union Square, New York City. Now, unions are under attack, as they have been for a long time. However, without your labor, this city would not exist as it does today. Labor Day in New York is more than just a long [...]
KULLI: Addison Karl’s Path – Street Practice, Public Art and Sculpture | Brooklyn Street Art
Over the last two decades of covering the street art movement and its many tributaries, one of the deepest satisfactions has been watching artists take real risks, learn in public, and mature—treating “greatness” as a path rather than a finish line. Working at BSA, we’ve interviewed, observed, and collaborated with scores of artists, authors, curators, institutions, and academics; it’s been a [...]
The Candy Factory: Where Cultural Currency Outweighs Cash | Brooklyn Street Art
In a city like New York, where money is too often mistaken for worth, some know better—and live like it—quietly disproving the myths about success that only reveal their emptiness over time. Here, community and creativity are the true currency, making you richer than you ever imagined. Share. Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt’s short documentary, The Candy Factory, drops you into one of those [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.24.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! When discovering a series of currency-themed street art in the city this week, we were reminded of the relentless daily pressure there is today to make ends meet—and of the regular headlines showing how the big players run their own schemes to squeeze the public. It also calls to mind the 1980s hip hop track “What People Do for Money” by Divine Sounds, with [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.17.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome the BSA Images of the Week! Recent exhibitions, festivals, mural programs, and artist movements demonstrate that street art’s vitality continues to evolve—shifting from unsanctioned and underground to mainstream and institutional, and then back to the public streets. Far from fading, the street art and graffiti movement continues to adapt and engage more people, sparking dialogue [...]
RECLAMATION: Two Artists, One Reckoning Augustine Kofie & Eric Otto | Brooklyn Street Art
Heron Arts in San Francisco presents RECLAMATION this August, a two-man show featuring Augustine Kofie and Erik Otto, who transform personal wreckage into fresh work. Forty new pieces, curated by Tova Lobatz, put both artists in a head-on conversation about loss, recovery, and what can be built out of the ashes. Augustine Kofie. Reclamation. Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA. (image courtesy of [...]
“Close All Windows And Doors Immediately!” : Basel’s Anonymous Street Artist Uprising of ’86 | Brooklyn Street Art
Sofort alle Fenster und Türen schliessen! (Immediately Close All Windows and Doors) On the night of November 1, 1986, Basel was told to “immediately close all windows and doors.” A fire ripped through a Sandoz chemical warehouse, and the Rhine River ran red with toxic runoff. Thousands of fish floated belly-up, and citizens were left in fear and fury, just months after the trauma of [...]
Alex Face “Caminhos Esquecidos”: Forgotten Paths in Portugal | Brooklyn Street Art
Alex Face and Caminhos Esquecidos Patcharapol Tangruen, also known as Alex Face, is regarded as a quietly thoughtful presence in contemporary street art. Trained in Bangkok in fine and applied arts, he began his practice in the early 2000s, gradually shifting from lettering to a figurative focus. His enduring signature character—a small child in a rabbit suit—carries an emotional weight [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.10.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Hot time, summer in the city, the back of your neck getting dirt and gritty. Cross over on the ferry from that steamy Manhattan, over the East River, here, to that more placid cousin, Brooklyn. "Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your [...]
Amy Sherald: Transforming Singular Moments | Art21 “Extended Play” | Brooklyn Street Art
Research from the Williams Institute at UCLA Law estimates that around 0.6% of U.S. adults—or approximately 1.4 million people—identify as transgender, based on national and state-level surveys. Remarkably, the volume of attention directed toward transfolk in some U.S. media and legislation during the most recent decade has been strikingly disproportionate to their size. For example, a 2022 [...]
Cranio: “MONEY” in London’s BSMT | Brooklyn Street Art
In his new solo exhibition, MONEY, at London’s BSMT Gallery, Brazilian artist Cranio uses his signature wit - sharpened like a ceremonial blade. Known for his blue-skinned Indigenous protagonist who wanders through this contemporary chaos, Cranio has built a practice over the last two decades that disarms - and provokes. This time, he’s aiming squarely at the culture of consumerism — and some [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 08.03.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! It's the Wild West out here, and there, there, there, and there. Is this deliberate? Does it all have to go up in a fireball, people? Honestly. In a published worldwide letter 1000 rabbis say the Gazans are starving, Mayor Adams is accused of falsifying petition signatures, Trump fires BLS commissioner after a weak jobs report, there are still plenty of [...]
SpY: Cycles Sculpturally in Madrid | Brooklyn Street Art
CYCLESMadrid - Spain, 2025I spy a guy who used to do conceptual murals and now does kinetic sculpture. Madrid-based artist SpY began his career with clever, often humorous street interventions that disrupted everyday urban routines—turning public space into a stage for reflection and play. Over the years, his work has shifted from ephemeral gestures to ambitious sculptural installations, [...]
Bartek Świątecki: Summer Fireflies in NYC | Brooklyn Street Art
Bartek Świątecki's “Fireflies” Illuminates a Memory From New York in a Polish Cityscape Known for his abstract compositions that balance precision and spontaneity, Bartek Świątecki has consistently pushed the visual language of urban abstraction. His walls—featured several times on Brooklyn Street Art—often reflect a dynamic interplay of geometry, layering, and movement, evoking rhythm [...]
Bifido Gives “No Pain, No Flowers” in Fanzara, Spain | Brooklyn Street Art
Street art reflects the aspirations, connections, and conflicts of society back to us—often unfiltered and always direct. That’s the case with “No Pain, No Flowers,” a striking new installation by Italian artist Bifido, created for the MIAU Fanzara festival in Spain. The wheatpasted photo-portrait features a teenage girl with facial piercings, caught in a moment that feels emotionally raw and [...]
Shepard Fairey: DEI-TY and the Art of Resistance | Brooklyn Street Art
If you know Shepard Fairey, then you already know: he’s never been one to sit back and let the powers that be go unchecked, from his own plugged-in and purposeful wiseguy perspective. From Andre the Giant Has a Posse wheatpastes in the '90s to “Hope” posters on campaign walls, his work straddles the intersections of street art, punk defiance, political critique, and populist propaganda [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.27.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. This week’s collection leans toward graffiti—city writers rekindling a romance with old styles, tracing our urban aesthetic lineage with fresh hands, new eyes, and scribes. Beyond that, the crime stats continue their long downward drift, despite some corporate outlets insisting our city is in daily chaos, as if Bedlam had moved in. Immigrants are valued [...]
Kromatic Fest: Kromatic Festival Paints a New Identity in Sant Andreu de la Barca | Brooklyn Street Art
Kromatic de sant Andreu de la Barca, a unos 25 km de Barcelona. Nestled just outside Barcelona, Sant Andreu de la Barca hosted the first-ever Kromatic Festival, a bold venture in large-scale street art that ran from June 3 to June 23, 2025 — transforming municipal walls into immersive murals and hopefully igniting community dialogue. This inaugural edition featured seven expansive murals, [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.20.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The sidewalks sizzle and the city purrs with heat and hustle. It's your daily movie out here. July is in full swing, and the summer nights are a little looser around the edges between important holidays and commitments. At MoMA, the Friday crowds are drifting through galleries to the low thump of downtown DJs tucked into corners of the atrium—spinning [...]
Another Page in the City’s Love Letter – Urban Nation Berlin | Brooklyn Street Art
BSA Special EditionLOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY at Urban Nation MuseumNewly released Interview snippet with curator Michelle Houston and Steven P. Harrington The LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY exhibition at Berlin’s Urban Nation Museum continues to evolve, provoke, and inspire—inviting new eyes and fresh conversations nearly a year since its debut. Curated by Michelle Houston, the show features over 50 [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.13.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Here in Brooklyn we move through a lush delirium—a rhapsody in blue and green, thick with summer and song, strident prose, a bit of jazz. In certain pockets of creativity the aerosol fumes from many a graff writer and mural painter are landing like a cloud on your sweaty skin and sliding off into the sewer below. The echos of Saturday night stereo is [...]
From Burner to Branding: Street Art’s New Role on the Wall | Brooklyn Street Art
For three days in early June, the streets of Mollet del Vallès echoed with the clatter of ladders, the hiss of spray cans, and the upbeat pulse of DJs and market stalls. Artists from across Spain and beyond—including Laia, Uriginal, Sfhir, Lily Brik, Digo.Art, and Zurik—brought their visions to life on walls around the city, turning otherwise ordinary facades into large-scale, camera-ready [...]
Books in the MCL: Liz Munsell, Greg Tate (ed.): Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation | Brooklyn Street Art
Liz Munsell, Greg Tate (ed.): Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation Reprinted from the original review. The catalogue Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation, accompanying the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston exhibition, is as multifaceted and dynamic as its subject. Edited by Liz Munsell and Greg Tate, this robust volume unravels the layers of Jean-Michel [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.06.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Fourth of July weekend stretched into at least three days this year for many New Yorkers—some staying in town to catch the spectacular fireworks displays over the East River between Brooklyn and Manhattan, others escaping to Long Island, Upstate New York, or New Jersey. Chasing cooler air and a patch of green, they rent, borrow, and maybe even steal cars for [...]
Civita Civita: Elfo Paints It Like He Finds It | Brooklyn Street Art
Ten summers later, the Cvta Street Fest in Civitacampomarano is still a stubborn bonfire in Molise that refuses to extinguish—exactly the kind of smoldering ruin that draws Elfo like a moth with a paint roller. The village, half-abandoned and sliding gently into the weeds, gives him a ready-made stage set: crumbling stucco, porous stone, and few humans around to complain if the punch line [...]
Books In The MCL: Bordalo II. Bordalo II 2011 – 2017 | Brooklyn Street Art
Bordalo II 2011 – 2017. Bordalo II. 2017 Reprinted from the original review. Bordalo II 2011 – 2017 is an essential document of the Lisbon-based artist’s transformative approach to street art, sculpture, and environmental activism. Published in conjunction with his massive solo exhibition ATTERO in Lisbon, the book chronicles six years of Bordalo II’s relentless exploration of waste as both [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.29.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. NYC's 55th annual Pride March down 5th Avenue kicks off today, themed “Rise Up: Pride in Protest,” taking on a decidedly defiant stance on equality for all. Suppose you are in the subway, dance club, or park in Bushwick, Chinatown, or midtown. Like every June, it's a lavender parade all weekend, with all members of the LGBTQUA+ communities from [...]
Saman & Sasan Oskouei: “Terra Forma” Opens at IRL Gallery, Tribeca NYC | Brooklyn Street Art
The new exhibition Terra Forma from Saman and Sasan Oskouei at IRL Gallery is a quiet storm—an atmospheric meditation on fragility, formation, and the traces of life left behind as nature and industry brush against one another. The brothers don’t shout their critique; it would be folly. Instead, they whisper it across surfaces that suggest ancient terrain, marginalized neighborhoods, and the [...]
No Kings Here: MTO’s Burning Crown, Street Protests, Public Grief in Novi Sad, Serbia | Brooklyn Street Art
"The collapse of dirty money's reign" Novi Sad, SERBIA. May 2025. At the corner of Primorska 3 in Novi Sad, where vendors at an informal NAJLON PIJACA flea market lay out used clothes and household items on the pavement, a new mural has appeared. It shows a burning crown, painted directly onto a low wall beside the rag-tag but prim market. The work is by French-German artist [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.22.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. A heatwave is coming, the fog of war is already here, the establishment Dems hate Mamdani and would prefer the disgraced Cuomo for NYC Mayor, Trump hates everyone (including now, Fox), Israel is attacking Iran, the US is attacking Iran, and New York street fashion watchers are expecting to see if women begin wearing socks with dress shoes —or even strappy [...]
Fabio Petani’s “BOTANICAL PULSE: Insulin & Spartium Junceum” – A Living Wall in Hell’s Kitchen | Brooklyn Street Art
A powerful new mural emerges this summer in Hell’s Kitchen, where West 47th Street meets the edges of the park. Painted by Italian artist Fabio Petani, BOTANICAL PULSE: Insulin & Spartium Junceum is more than a striking visual gesture—it is a message written in flora and chemistry, an atmospheric gift to the neighborhood. Tall, quiet, and surprisingly layered, the mural brings together [...]
From Beats to Brushes (and Cans): Bushwick Collective Block Party 2025 – Part 2 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to Part II of II of our photo collection from the 14th Annual Bushwick Collective Block Party. This year’s edition, held on May 31, 2025, brought together a powerful fusion of beats, paint, and community spirit—just the kind of vibrant energy we at BSA love to celebrate. Maximiliano Bagnasco. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Everybody’s proud of their neighborhood, and even though [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.15.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. As usual in 2025, it was a casual week of parades, protests, and military deployments—just your average backdrop for all the high school graduations, weddings, camping trips that happen this time of year. In Los Angeles, 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines were deployed after ICE raids shook entire neighborhoods, prompting the governor to cry federal [...]
DAZE on Madison: Graffiti History in Real Time | Brooklyn Street Art
In a decisive nod to the city that shaped him, legendary graffiti artist DAZE (Chris Ellis) has unveiled two new large-scale murals at 550 Madison Avenue, transforming the building’s soaring street-level space into a canvas that bridges worlds. Painted live in public view, these works are part of “Above Ground Midtown: MCNY x DAZE.” With their vibrant forms, layered textures, and intuitive [...]
From Beats to Brushes (and Cans): Bushwick Collective Block Party 2025 – Part 1 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to Part I of II of our photo collection from the 14th Annual Bushwick Collective Block Party. This year’s edition, held on May 31, 2025, brought together a powerful fusion of beats, paint, and community spirit—just the kind of vibrant energy we at BSA love to celebrate. Capturing the spirit! SEF.01 (photo © Jaime Rojo) The day’s star performer, hip-hop legend Rakim, set the stage [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.08.2025 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Eid Mubarak to all observing today. Happy Puerto Rican Parade to todos nuestras hermanos y hermanas. We’re grateful to live in a city that celebrates many traditions with such heart. That's why it's always perplexing to see Ken and Barbie-types on the national stage vociferating about DEI as if it were a mold on the back wall of your refrigerator. [...]
Windows Into Masao Gozu: A Reflection by Ted Riederer on the Art of Urban Memory | Brooklyn Street Art
In the charged aftermath of 1960s protest movements, artists began taking their practices beyond galleries and into the streets, forging a new relationship with public space and everyday materials. The Situationists, for example, sought to interrupt the routines of daily life by wandering the city without a plan, using these aimless drifts to reveal the city’s hidden psychological and [...]
Tag Conference 2025: Remembering the Writers Who Wrote the City | Brooklyn Street Art
After a landmark debut last year in Brooklyn, the Tag Conference returns to New York City this fall with sharpened purpose. Hosted at the Museum of the City of New York — where Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection currently holds court — this year’s program centers on legacy: specifically, the lasting influence of writers who’ve passed, but whose marks, names, and styles [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 06.01.2025 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Love you to the moon, June! In New York yesterday, gamers marked the launch of the city’s first annual Video Game Festival, where esports battles, indie demos, and retro arcades spilled into real life like the final boss stage. With its mashup of pixel nostalgia and future-forward tech, the festival echoed the spirit of underground subcultures — not unlike [...]