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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 [...]
Will it? “The Morning Will Change Everything” — Interview with Sebas Velasco in Sarajevo | Brooklyn Street Art
Interview with Doug Gillen | Video Feature from Fifth Wall TV Ghosts of concrete modernism and whispered nostalgia drift through “The Morning Will Change Everything,” the first solo museum exhibition by Spanish artist Sebas Velasco, now on view at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. In this new video interview, filmmaker and art observer Doug Gillen sits down with [...]
Sneak Peek: No Sleep Till Bushwick: Street Art, Style Wars, and the Soul of a Block Party | Brooklyn Street Art
The streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn right now are one sprawling open-air studio—artists from around the world balanced on cherry pickers, ladders, and step stools, bending brushes, tilting rollers, and waving aerosol cans like conductors directing an urban symphony of color. Thick lines, fine mists, reflections, textures, letterforms in every handstyle—they’re building volume and vibe, layering [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 05.25.2025 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The George Floyd mural at Elgin and Ennis in Houston’s Third Ward has been quietly demolished — a move that caught many off guard, especially as the fifth anniversary of his death approached. More than a painting on a wall in the margins of the city, it was a community’s act of remembrance, a public reckoning, and a visual anchor for a moment when the [...]
Crossing Hemispheres: A Brazilian Summer in the North, at STRAAT | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to Brazilian summer in Amsterdam. In the evolving global dialogue of street art, it’s not often that two hemispheres collide with this much color, conviction, and cultural force. This summer in Amsterdam, STRAAT Museum hosts a rare and vital encounter: a comingling of Brazilian street expression in two distinct but interconnected exhibitions — Pixação: Resistance and Rebellion and [...]
“Money Talks” on Frost Street – With Gabriel Specter | Brooklyn Street Art
BSA Interview, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, May 2025 If you’ve ever wandered down Frost Street and caught a whiff of turpentine, weed, and burned toast, you may have walked right past the unmarked doorway where Williamsburg still quietly seethes and happily bubbles with creative resistance. A community center, performance space, art gallery, flea market hybrid, the space welcomes you to the latest [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 05.18.2025 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Spring 2025: Growth creeps in — leaf by leaf, blade by blade, decree by decree. You barely notice the buildup, but gradually it gathers, until suddenly, you're surrounded. On New York walls right now, you’ll spot a mix of collage-style cut-and-paste work, aerosol rendered full fantasy - and a surge in vertical graffiti done while hanging from ropes. [...]
Lapiz: No Progress. In Spite of Technology, in Berlin | Brooklyn Street Art
Hamburg-based street artist Lapiz has brought his sharp wit and political edge to Berlin with a new stencil mural for the Urban Canvas Parkhaus Wedding project, curated by Emily Strange and Liebe zur Kunst. Painted on the concrete wall of a parking garage, the piece shows a sleek modern car towing a rickety wooden cart packed with what appear as indigenous figures, soldiers, riot police, an [...]
The People’s Art: Billboards as Commons, Protest, and Celebration | Brooklyn Street Art
SaveArtSpace 10th Anniversary Public Art Exhibition & Gallery Show – Opens May 30, 2025 SaveArtSpace marks its 10th anniversary with The People’s Art, a sweeping public art initiative and gallery exhibition that brings together some of the most urgent and incisive voices in contemporary art. Curated by an influential panel of curators and cultural leaders grounded in the study of [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 05.11.24 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. This week, St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue was suddenly flooded with pealing bells and congregants. In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, was chosen, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Leo XIII, who was widely admired for his steadfast advocacy for migrants and laborers at the turn of the 20th [...]
CIBO Part II – Best Before: Street Art Against a Rancid Future in Verona | Brooklyn Street Art
Street art, food, and antifascist activism collided on the walls of Verona – and we’re back for seconds. In Part I, we witnessed how local hero CIBO and a crew of international street artists turned hate-fueled graffiti into gourmet-inspired murals, reclaiming public space with humor and heart. Now, welcome to Part II of “Best Before. Street Art Against a Rancid Future,” where we dive even [...]
Best Before: Street Art Against a Rancid Future in Verona, Part I | Brooklyn Street Art
Verona, Italy—known for Romeo and Juliet—is now also home to a very different kind of love story: one between food, public space, and antifascist resistance. At the center is CIBO, a street artist whose name literally means “food,” and who has made a career of turning hate speech into visual comfort food. His murals cover neo-fascist graffiti with pizza slices, cheesecakes, and bundles of [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 05.04.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Spring is in full swing, and so are the artists. We’re expecting a few international names to pass through New York this week, including Saype, who’s creating something extraordinary at the UN. It’s also New York Art Week — a citywide celebration of contemporary art that brings together fairs, gallery openings, and museum shows across all five boroughs. [...]
Monoliths and Market Forces: SpY’s Golden Intervention in Lille | Brooklyn Street Art
On Rue Faidherbe, where stately Haussmannian façades frame your vision and the Opéra de Lille crowns the view like a civic tiara, something entirely unorthodox has landed. Fourteen vertical golden shipping containers now tower above the heads of pedestrians in the heart of Lille’s historic center, forming a gauntlet of steel and symbolism. This is Golden Monoliths, the latest urban incursion [...]
Do Women Have to Be Naked to Be Taken Seriously? Guerrilla Girls and the Streetwise Fight for Visibility | Brooklyn Street Art
"Bodies Of Knowledge" People have tried to make a case for blatant sexism in the percentage of women represented in street art. The argument of discrimination can only go so far, usually because the practice is largely anonymous and viewers are drawn to what they like, a selection process that has little to do with curation and mostly to do with showing up. That was not the main [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.27.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Don't miss the Brooklyn Botanical Garden right now - it is peak! The blossoms 200 cherry trees, next to a collection of 100 lilac bushes... You won't believe it. You can trace the national/international headlines like veins across the map—the courts, the economy, the ports, the rising trade in arms internationally, the hollowing shelves, the [...]
Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball! | Brooklyn Street Art
Went to Vegas and had a ball. Okay, it was a sphere. Shepard Fairey’s Sphere. At least for a month. Yes, it was street art… on a whole new level. We’ve been questioned endlessly over the last two decades about the true nature of art in the public sphere—pulling apart and examining the progenitors, the aspirations, the elements that comprise street art, graffiti, public art, and [...]
In Memoriam: Don’t Fret | Brooklyn Street Art
With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to the brilliant Don't Fret. Cooper, the Chicago street artist known as "Don't Fret," was born and raised in the Wicker Park neighborhood—a community that shaped his perspective and featured prominently in his work. A few days ago he passed away at the age of 36 after a long illness, as confirmed by his family. Deeply connected to [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.20.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Happy Easter, bunny. Great stuff is out on the streets today, whether you are wandering aimlessly through the city or touring with a sense of purpose. Street art continues to evolve, even as it repeats. Can anyone doubt that there is a more relevant artform that can be instantly responsive to current events and take the longer view? The city’s buzzing with [...]
Layers of Legacy: POSE Brings Graffiti Roots to a Carousel in Schrager’s Garden | Brooklyn Street Art
Jordan Nickel, better known as POSE, is a Chicago-born graffiti artist whose work fuses street culture, pop art, and comic book aesthetics into a bold, layered style. With a bright palette and complex collage style, he often hides messages and abstract forms that reward a closer look. A standout example is his 85-foot mural he painted last summer beneath the Purple Line in Evanston, [...]
Words Like Weapons: Jenny Holzer in the Streets and the Museum, In “Protest” | Brooklyn Street Art
If you’ve ever been stopped in your tracks by a cryptic phrase pasted on a lamppost or beamed onto a building, there’s a good chance you’ve crossed paths, at least spiritually, with Jenny Holzer. Before text-based street art became a global, sometimes cerebral, genre, Holzer treated the city as her canvas, her publishing platform, injecting unsettling truths and poetic jabs into public space. [...]
Hi-Vis at 10: Buffalo AKG’s Public Art Program Moves Indoors | Brooklyn Street Art
In the ever-evolving public and street art equation where boundaries between genres blur and definitions remain in flux, a notable regional museum has taken a decisive step toward institutionalizing a decade-long experiment in civic art-making. With the opening of Hi-Vis at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the first ten years of its public art initiative are given a platform inside the museum [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.13.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA's Images of the week. Chag Sameach to all who are celebrating Passover. The Hasidim in Brooklyn kicked off the public festivities by lighting fires on sidewalks in various neighborhoods—a surprising and bright flickering of orange, yellow, and white dancing flames are a sight against the cold gray downpour of April. As the smoke wafts through the streets, there’s a moment [...]
Bicicleta Sem Freio: Rooted in Music, Drawing the Sound | Brooklyn Street Art
New graphic works by Brazilian duo Bicicleta Sem Freio—Douglas de Castro and Renato Pereira—tap into a visual language shaped by music, memory, and the intensity of youthful aspirations. Their palette leans hallucinatory, echoing blacklight posters and underground zines, with surreal figures and dream-fed compositions that push past the real. The vibe is familiar to anyone who’s ever covered [...]
Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen In “Place” | Brooklyn Street Art
Before “street art” became a globally recognized genre, Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen were charting their course—one rooted in graffiti, freight trains, hand-drawn signs, and the layered rhythms of the city itself. This rare 12-minute Art21 segment, first aired in 2001, offers an intimate look into their daily lives and creative processes as they prepare for professional exhibitions, [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 04.07.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA's Images of the week. Mockingbirds are bringing sprigs from the cold, grey, churning East River to build nests on the banks of abandoned lots of Williamsburg/Greenpoint before further ugly gentrification paves it over. Up and down the Brooklyn waterfront, it’s a procession of architectural mediocrity—glass boxes and bland slabs posing as progress. With few exceptions, [...]
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier / Ten Years Of Dances For Our Time | Brooklyn Street Art
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier, a Franco-Canadian artist and choreographer, initiated the "Une minute de danse par jour" (One Minute of Dance per Day) on January 14, 2015. This endeavor was her response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, aiming to offer a daily act of poetic resistance and to foster a sense of solidarity and tenderness through dance. She records a one-minute dance in [...]
The Art of Protest: Ron English and the Fight for Public Space | Brooklyn Street Art
Long before he hijacked billboards, Ron English was growing up in Decatur, Illinois, tuning in to the everyday spectacle of ads and authority—and wondering why nobody was messing with them. By the late 1970s, English had begun altering billboards in Texas, driven by the realization that “making art was only half the equation.” The other half? Being seen. Advertising billboard culture became [...]
Images Of The Week: 03.30.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Congratulations to our Muslim neighbors in NYC on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, and we wish them peace, joy, and blessings as they mark the end of Ramadan. The popping rumble of customized mufflers is back on the streets, a rite of spring as familiar as purple crocuses and snowdrops pushing through browned grass, old 40 bottles, crumpled chip bags, and [...]
“We Demand Change”: Shepard Fairey’s Tribute to Joaquin Oliver in Washington, D.C. | Brooklyn Street Art
Shepard Fairey has unveiled a new six-story mural titled We Demand Change in Washington, D.C., a solemn and visually arresting tribute to Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, one of the 17 victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Installed at 618 H Street NW in Chinatown—just steps from the Capital One Arena—the mural bears Oliver’s portrait above the [...]
Sebas Velasco Debuts at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina: “The Morning Will Change Everything” | Brooklyn Street Art
There’s a warmth in the grey—Sebas Velasco knows how to find it. Next month the Spanish artist’s distinct urban realism brings it inside the museum setting with The Morning Will Change Everything. Opening April 4th at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this debut solo museum exhibition is more than a milestone—it’s a culmination of over a decade of travel, observation, and [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 03.23.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA's Images of the Week! Welcome to BSA Images of the Week, to Spring, to the land of Hype and Hustle! Down in D.C., it’s all smoke, mirrors, and sharp elbows. There’s a full-blown constitutional cage match brewing over deportation flights—judges say no, the President says yes, and now he wants the judge impeached. Meanwhile, Trump just yanked security clearances from a list [...]
Urban Nation Berlin, Situationists, and “Love Letters To The City” Part 3 | Brooklyn Street Art
First day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and what better sign of renewal than a fresh Urban Nation bloom—sprouting defiantly among the dried leaves, cigarette butts, and abandoned Berliner Pilsner bottles? As part of an ongoing conversation with curator Michelle Houston about the latest show at Urban Nation, LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY, we find ourselves drawn to the echoes of the [...]
“The People’s Art”: Taking It to the Streets for 10 Years | Brooklyn Street Art
For a decade, SaveArtSpace has transformed New York’s streets into open-air galleries, reclaiming advertising spaces as canvases for public expression. As jurors for The People’s Art, we’re proud to celebrate this milestone 10th-anniversary exhibition, continuing the tradition of putting art directly into the streets—where it has always belonged. From the earliest graffiti writers to the [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 03.16.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA's Images of the Week! Purim has wrapped up in Brooklyn after three days and two nights of exuberant revelry in Hasidic neighborhoods—a celebration that, at first glance, might seem like a fusion of Halloween and New Year's, complete with thousands of costumed kids and exuberant teens, many of whom are noticeably inebriated, blasting music into the night from roaming [...]
ELFO Clarifies Artistic Stance on Fascism | Brooklyn Street Art
About a hundred years ago "fascist" was commonly used to describe authoritarian movements, such as Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany and Franco’s rule in Spain. Mussolini was considered a socialist first, then a nationalist, and ultimately considered the founder of fascism as an ideology and political system. In WWII the term solidified as a general descriptor for ultra-nationalist, [...]
“Warmioptikum” – A Dialogue Between Art and Nature, by Arek Stankiewicz & Bartek Swiatecki | Brooklyn Street Art
Interpreting Warmia’s Hidden Patterns from Above and Within Bartek Swiatecki’s latest book, Warmioptikum, is a striking fusion of abstract painting and aerial photography, capturing the landscapes of Warmia, Poland, from a new perspective. Featuring Swiatecki’s expressive, in-the-moment paintings set against Arek Stankiewicz’s breathtaking drone photography, the book transforms familiar rural [...]
BSA Images Of The Week: 03.09.25 | Brooklyn Street Art
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The attack on the poor and the middle class continues nonstop with the imposing of tariffs that will jack up inflation, the attempts at cutting Medicaid, the tens of thousands of layoffs, and the dismantling of the Department of Education. 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, according to Senator Bernie Sanders in his response to Trump's [...]
Bordalo II’s IRRÉVERSIBLE: When Trash Talks Back | Brooklyn Street Art
Bordalo II is back in Paris, and—spoiler alert—so is our garbage. The Portuguese artist, known for sculpting animals from our collective waste, is launching IRRÉVERSIBLE. This new exhibition hits like a manifesto against overconsumption, environmental destruction, and humanity’s inability to pick up after itself. From May 24 to June 28, 2025, in the 13th arrondissement, the artist will [...]