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Hello BSA Friends! Here's our eclectic mix of striking images, background stories, and pithy non-sequitor observations from the streets worldwide. We've been busy. Enjoy! |
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In NYC news, a new exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of those orange fluttering “gates” one winter in Central Park. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City at The Shed is an immersive exhibition that includes an augmented reality component and rekindles memories for those who witnessed The Gates and unveils hidden stories for new audiences. Also, a shout out to the artist duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston and their new show Flash Point at Petzel. In visually arresting large-scale woodcut and silkscreen prints that echo the chaotic energy of city streets, they examinethe Anthropocene, forced migrations, and American civil unrest through layered compositions that slow down the rapid circulation of news imagery.
And we continue with our interview with the street, this week including Degrupo, Below Key, JerkFace, Roachi, BK Ackler, Denis Ouch, Manuel Alejandro NYC, ATOMS, Wild West, Helch, Sport, Zore64, Obek, and Soul.
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ELFO Clarifies Artistic Stance on Fascism
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, dictatorial, and militaristic regimes.
These days Fascism is often described as the merger of state and corporate power, and is sighted in a growing number of countries and cities. It’s also used as a way to attack in political discourse. The term “fascist” has been used as a pejorative in U.S. politics ...
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Swiatecki, known for his roots in graffiti and urban abstraction, takes his practice beyond the cityscape and into open fields, painting directly within the environment. Stankiewicz’s aerial lens frames these artistic moments, emphasizing their relationship with the land’s patterns, textures, and rhythms. As noted in the book’s foreword by Mateusz Swiatecki, Warmioptikum is a documentation and an exploration of how we perceive and engage with landscape, helping the reader see Warmia through “extraordinary perspectives and new, nonobvious contexts.”
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This week, we have new stuff from New York and Miami, in our visual interview with the streets, featuring Homesick, Smells, SRKSHNK, Crisp, Dr. Revolt, TBanbox, Urwont, OSK OSK, ASIK107, Man in the Box, Dam Crew, Stef Skills, COF Crew, Danny Doya, JAYDEE, Cinco, and WKS Crew.
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We are thrilled to once again announce the Martha Cooper Scholarship, in partnership with Urban Nation. This scholarship offers a promising photographer the chance to spend 10 months in Berlin in 2026—fully supported and immersed in the city’s dynamic creative environment.
This extraordinary opportunity provides not only free accommodation in an artist residence and full coverage of travel and living expenses but also regular mentorship, collaboration with artists across disciplines, and participation in Urban Nation’s projects and partnerships.
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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 transform a raw 300 m² space into a shrine of ecological reckoning, complete with his signature endangered species portraits made from salvaged plastic. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be judged by a looming panda constructed from discarded bottle caps, now’s your chance.
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“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 subculture. This book highlights the contributions of over 100 women graffiti artists from 23 countries, showcasing how they navigate, challenge, and redefine the graffiti landscape.
From the streets of New York to the alleys of São Paulo, Pabón-Colón explores the lives and works of these women, presenting graffiti as a space for the performance of feminism. The book examines how these artists build communities...
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SaveArtSpace is proud to present our 10th Anniversary celebration The People’s Art, a group public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening May 30, 2025, curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre, RJ Rushmore, Zahra Sherzad, Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, & Travis Rix.
The People’s Art is an art of, and for, the people. This is the art of the commons, that shared space between the tyranny of privatization and the compromise of collectivity. In a medium dedicated to telling the people what they want, SaveArtSpace allows us to occupy public space as a personal place where we can imagine what we need.
We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between March 3, 2024 and April 14, 2025. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on ad space in New York, NY. Up to 50 artists will be selected from the open call.
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Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo is again blurring the lines between architecture and illusion, history and reinvention. With Chrysalis, his latest large-scale intervention, Borondo reskins the façade of Munich’s Villa Stuck into a luminous, multilayered vision of shadows and figures—tapping into a historical subconscious that reveals, conceals, and questions all at once. He covers over 600 square meters of mesh that are stretched across the museum’s scaffolding, his white and gold imagery a tattooed second skin, a veil that is both ephemeral and commanding.
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A pioneer of French graffiti from Guadaloupe, Shuck One, is presenting Regeneration at the Pompidou Center’s Black Paris exhibition (March 19–June 30), honoring Black figures who shaped France’s history through large-scale paintings and collages depicting key moments like the Tirailleurs Sénégalais, the 1967 Guadeloupe riots, and the BUMIDOM migration program, alongside portraits of pioneers such as Aimé Césaire, Angela Davis, and Joséphine Baker.
Christie’s has been flooded with fury over its AI art auction, raising questions about intellectual property, artistic integrity, and the role of technology in creative pursuits. Taking a look at the selections in the auction, you may feel like you are bobbing in the deep end. In Sotheby’s news, “I feel like street art and punk rock have the same core,” says Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 as he cashes in on his Banksy, which could go for more than 6 million, according to the AP.
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“Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop” is an in-depth exploration of hip-hop’s roots in the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s. Edited by Johan Kugelberg, this hardcover serves as a historical archive and a tribute to the pioneers who transformed a local movement into a global cultural phenomenon.
The book’s heart lies in the photography of Joe Conzo, known as “the man who took hip-hop’s baby pictures.” His candid images vividly capture the scene’s raw energy—block parties, breakers (break dancers), and iconic figures like Grandmaster Flash, the Cold Crush Brothers, and Afrika Bambaataa. Conzo’s photos spotlight the performers and ...
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By request: The Images from the Interview
In honor of the radio station WNYC’s 100th birthday, Alison Stewart’s “All Of It” program is celebrating 100 pieces of art in New York City. Each month, Alison speaks with an expert in the art world about their 10 favorites. This month, Alison talked to Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington, co-founders of Brooklyn Street Art, about 10 pieces of art in the streets that they think all New Yorkers would like to know about.
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First, some street art news:
San Francisco street artist Rabi Torres taps into ad culture subversion with his new “We Buy Souls” campaign, echoing the tactics of Cash For Your Warhol artist Hargo—right down to the cryptic answering machine message and documentation website. This kind of remixing of commercial signage also has historical roots in Ed Ruscha’s experiments with text, Barbara Kruger’s billboard-style commands, Jenny Holzer’s wheat-pasted provocations, Corita Kent’s screen prints, and the bold aesthetics of the Colby Poster Printing Co. Certainly Rabi is getting people’s attention in a San Francisco cityscape that some may describe as hammered with advertising. Call the number on the signs, and you might get pulled into an existential rabbit hole—if you’re up for the game. SF Gate breaks it down here.
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The Wide World of Graffiti by Alan Ket is a comprehensive exploration of graffiti art, tracing its evolution from a marginalized expression to a globally recognized art form. The book delves into the origins of graffiti in the late 1960s and 1970s, primarily in Philadelphia and New York City, where it began as a voice for youth who felt excluded from mainstream society. Ket, a graffiti writer and co-founder of the Museum of Graffiti in Miami, provides an informed perspective, blending personal experience with scholarly insight.
The narrative chronicles the development of graffiti, emphasizing its grassroots beginnings and connections with other subcultures such as skateboarding, hip-hop, and tattooing. This holistic approach provides a broad understanding of the cultural milieu that nurtured ...
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Graffitecture: Typographic Blueprints, on view at STRAAT Museum from February 14 to May 18, 2025, explores the evolving relationship between graffiti, typography, and the built environment. Curated by Hyland Mather, the exhibition brings together four artists—SODA, Gary Stranger, Antigoon, and Georgia Hill—who each push the boundaries of letterforms, blending street-born spontaneity with architectural precision. With around fifty works and several installations, the show underscores how graffiti’s evolution extends beyond its rebellious origins, shaping contemporary urban aesthetics through language and form.
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Enrico Bonadio, a seasoned expert in copyright law, delves into the complexities of legal rights surrounding street art and graffiti in this insightful book, “Protecting Art in the Street.” Accompanied by a foreword from renowned graffiti writer, artist, and historian Zephyr, the book is a thorough and accessible guide for artists in understanding and navigating copyright laws.
Bonadio underscores the heightened vulnerability of street art and graffiti to unauthorized use and exploitation. He highlights that these art forms, often placed in public spaces, face greater risks of misappropriation and destruction compared to traditional fine art. This vulnerability, he points out ...
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SpY’s latest projects, Ovoid and Ovoids, take two distinct approaches to spatial intervention—one in the open air of Riyadh, the other within an exhibition space in Rome. Vastly differing in scale and context, both works use form, movement, and light to challenge how we perceive and navigate the environments we often take for granted.
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The small town of Les Franqueses del Vallès, located just 4 kilometers north of Granollers in Catalonia, Spain, hosted the third edition of the Enamurart Graffiti Jam on January 11, 2025. Nestled in a suburban setting, this town may not be on your radar, but you can imagine a reputation as a hub for urban art growing – especially with events like this graffiti jam.
Unfolding at the intersection of Carrer de la Serra and Carrer Llevant, Enamuart brought together an impressive lineup of graffiti artists and writers, including MARIA DIE, ESLICER, DANTE, MARCONE, PAKO & MAGA, STAIN, JAPON, SHORE, OKAN, MUSA, HEN, and EDZUMBA. The names represent a mix of styles, perspectives, and techniques, making the jam not just an artistic gathering but a good showcase of the breadth of contemporary graffiti.
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