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Okay let’s do this! The future is unwritten. Get out your marker.
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Our stats in 2025 :
4 continents, 15 countries, 25 cities, 650 artist's work,
40 individual artist profiles, 15 book reviews, 7 museums,
8 street art festivals or public art events featured,
2 libraries, 1 scholarship program.
Our primary focuses:
Social and Political Activism in Art
Institutional Embrace of Street Art (Museums, Galleries, Academics)
Global Festivals and Community Projects
History and Legacy of Graffiti/Street Art
Artistic Innovation and Cross-disciplinary Experiments
And we are in the midst of our favorite 15 photos from 2025!
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Photo #15 of 2025
View of Lower Manhattan, Jersey City, and Downtown Brooklyn while landing at LaGuardia Airport, NY. January 2025.
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Photo #14 of 2025
Peter Daverington in Freeman Plaza East. February, 2025. Manhattan, NYC.
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Photo #13 of 2025
Passover 2025. April, 2025. Brooklyn, NY.
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Photo #12 of 2025
The Splasher V 2025. April, 2025. Brooklyn, NY.
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Photo #11 of 2025
Zach Curtis. Painting for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2025. May 2025, Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Photo #10 of 2025
DUSTER. Manhattan, NY. June 2025.
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Merry Christmas
from BSA 2025
Little Haiti, Miami. December 2025.
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Photo #9 of 2025
WERDS. DZEL. MANIK. DUSTO. RIOT. Manhattan, NY, June 2025.
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Photo #8 of 2025
Leon Reid. “Of A Free Will”. In collaboration with Novo Collective. Brooklyn, NY. October 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Photo #7 of 2025
Punk. Brooklyn, NY. October 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Photo #6 of 2025
RIP GLOOM. Brooklyn, NY. November 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Photo #5 of 2025
A woman with a red bag and pigeons. Berlin, November 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Photo #4 of 2025
View of Lower Manhattan, Jersey City, and Downtown Brooklyn while landing at LaGuardia Airport, NY. January 2025.
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Nearing two decades of this annual list, BSA has changed as the local and global street art/graffiti/fine art scenes have. Less interested in the celebrity and more interested in the people and passions that drive the need to express yourself creatively in public space, BSA has gone through whatever doors opened and a few that were slammed shut. Our shortlist for 2025 reflects a diversity within the street art, graffiti, and fine art worlds that many once assumed would become centralized and homogenized.
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Barcelona’s urban art scene is again finding some footing at Nau Bostik, a former adhesive factory in the La Sagrera neighborhood that is one of the city’s most persistent sites for contemporary muralism. Last month B-Murals unveiled 13 new murals across the complex, marking the 10th anniversary of Nau Bostik as a community-managed cultural space. In a city where legal and informal street painting has been a subject of rowdy debate, and many would say has been in steady decline over the last 15 years, the scale and ambition of this project feels notable.
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This week, our interview with the streets has a Miami hangover and a New York winter cold snap (slap), with new murals, graffiti pieces, and street art conversing with you as you march to the subway, laundromat, or ice-skating rink. Artists and writers and street scholars this week include: Atomik, Clown Soldier, Cruze Oner, Daniel Lloyd, Dreamscape, EXR, Hiero Veiga, INFOE, Kams Art, Lexi Bella, Mesper, Mr. June, Mucky, Shepard Fairey, Tati, Tesoe, Werds, Zoot, and Zwon.
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Launched in 2022 and heading into its third edition in 2026, Urban Pictus is the mural festival shaping Prague’s public art future. Co-founded by Petr Hájek and Petr Kopal of The Chemistry Gallery, the biennial brings together the city’s cultural institutions, municipal partners, and an evolving network of post–Velvet Revolution creative districts. In a city defined by Gothic spires and Baroque curves, Urban Pictus doesn’t shy from the friction of graffiti and street art—it uses it. The festival has activated walls across Prague 1, 6, 7, 8, and 10, inserting large-scale muralism and street-rooted practices into the visual rhythm of a city known for its architectural legacy.
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Michal Škapa (b. 1978, Prague), known in graffiti circles as Tron, is one of the defining figures of the Czech graffiti movement. He emerged in the first wave of Prague writers in the early–mid 1990s, active in influential crews such as DSK, CAP, NUTS, and TOYZ. His reputation grew not only through his presence on Prague’s walls and train lines but also through some of his under-the-radar painting exploits — always a symbolic moment for graffiti writers testing their ambition.
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Here’s a selection of works seen on the street this week in Wynwood, Miami, including: Aine, BK Foxx, Dirt Cobain, Dustoe, Earsnot, EMERGE, Entes, Gyalgebra, Jason Naylor, Johann Aven, Lae, Luis Valle, Marcos Conde, MEPS, Patrick Churcany, Saturno, Shepard Fairey, SMOG ONE, STOE, and TATS004.
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His admiration for the photographer Martha Cooper is also part of it: he recognizes that she endured periods when her work was underappreciated, then gradually became a reference point for entire scenes and was treasured for their historical significance. By aligning his practice with her documentary, ethnological approach — attentive, long-term, grounded in real communities — Mitro is situating himself in a lineage of photography that tells our stories to each other and future generations.
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“War & Order” features street artists, contemporary artists, outside artists and those adjacent ruminating on the role and roll of the war machine in the 2020’s with Gabriel Specter, Renelerude, Escif, Dan Sabau, Kazuhiro Imafuku, M Shimek, and Cash4 on the march.
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Mexican street artist, muralist, and graffiti writer Mode Orozco — known as Mode NBC — is currently transforming the perimeter walls of Estadio de Béisbol Manuel L. Almanza in Chihuahua City with a sweeping new mural. Originally from Tijuana and active for more than 25 years in graffiti and large-scale portraiture, he has gained recognition for honoring sports icons, including UFC champion Brandon Moreno and boxer Yamileth Mercado, on public walls throughout northern Mexico.
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When Seth said ‘Laos,’ there was no way she was going to say ‘no,’ Martha Cooper will tell you.
After all, Laos is where she learned to drive a motorbike in the 1960s — a place she remembers by its dusty roads, warmth, and creative kids who know how to make their own fun. Sixty years later, she’s back with a camera in hand, documenting French street artist Seth Globepainter (Julien Malland) as he works his familiar magic at the edge of the Mekong.
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Here is a quick drop into a melange of things we found in both for our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1UP Crew, B.S., Caer8th, Dibs, Exit RIP, EXOT Diamonds, Gunther Schaefer, MORT RIP, ONG, Paradox, Phoebe Graphy, Tona, XOXO, ZMG, and Zosen Bandito.
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Marina Capdevila has completed a new mural titled “Compartiendo Muros”, painted at Colegio Público Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Madrid. The project is part of the Madrid City Council’s Sharing Walls program, which brings artists into public spaces across the city. The project also includes workshops and conversations with students at the school.
“Compartiendo Muros” features Capdevila’s recurring cast of older women in playful, contemporary scenes — here on skateboards, surrounded by plants, and outfitted with everyday tech.
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Born outside Sydney and based in Glasgow, Sam Bates—SMUG—began the way many graffiti writers do: skateboards, hip-hop, and late-night missions to get his name up.
He’s still getting his name up.
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We begin the show with a new portrait of the much-loved graffiti and street art photographer Martha Cooper, based on a photo by Corey Nickols and painted by Swed Oner (Mathieu Taupenas) in Bushwick with Joe Ficalora and the Bushwick Collective by his side. Born in the south of France in the 80s, a graffiti writer in the late 90s, Swed Oner is now known for his hyper-realistic, monochrome portraits of people transformed into religious icons – featuring a “halo” motif for framing.
Featuring Dzel, EAZV, EXR, Gloom, Homesick, IMK, ISB, Jodi Da Real, KAMZ, Mike King, Notice, RIP Money, Shwan McArt, Silent, Smaer, Two Five, VENG, Warios, Werds, and ZOZS.
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For more than two decades, MrKas has carried his Porto-born graffiti instincts across continents, painting walls from Ireland to Malta, Greece, the Netherlands, the Azores, and beyond. Festivals such as Waterford Walls, Meeting of Styles in Tampere, Kings Spray in Amsterdam, and the Pompeii Street Art Festival have shaped his evolution, each one adding another chapter to his ongoing dialogue between realism, memory, and perception.
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For one week this fall, BlankMagBooks in New York quietly hosted photographs by Sonny Gall from her new publication 99 of NY, released by King Koala Press with text by Mila Tenaglia. The exhibition was small but telling — a passing moment in the life of a project that had already taken a decade to form.
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Aerosol, Avignon, astronauts, and an ornery ornithologist under the U-Bahn feeding hundreds of pigeons, making threats toward a visiting photojournalist about revealing her identity — it’s all part of a typical sunny fall survey of Berlin as we track the streets under the U3 from Urban Spree to Urban Nation on foot. It’s a hike, but why not? You’ve got to burn off last night’s Schultheiss beers that add to your girth and your bleary, sun-streaked view of the streets.
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This year Graffitea 2025marked its tenth anniversary in the small Valencian town of Cheste, about 30 kilometers west of Valencia, with a new edition that reaffirmed its role as one of Spain’s most significant public art projects. Over the course of a decade, the festival has transformed this municipality, with more than 160 murals now lining its streets.
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Street art functions best when it is a witness, not only a declaration. “I was here, I am here” is the simplified version, and often there are clues that tell you so much more.
In the case of New York’s Appleton, that voice speaks of more than presence: it traces a life lived, marked by survival, activism, and visual urgency.
This week he returns to Chelsea with his new solo exhibition—
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We welcome your ideas, submissions, and invitations.
From shows and festivals to panels—or even bonfires by the freight tracks—we want to hear what you’re planning. We’ve been everywhere: curating exhibitions, moderating panels, giving talks and lectures, writing essays, founding libraries, launching scholarships, MC’ing events, climbing walls, slipping fences, and drinking cheap beer on the sidewalk outside.
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