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The Pride parade comes down 5th Avenue today – a rebellious and celebratory parade that arose in the late 1960s in a hostile and oppressive political atmosphere toward LGBTQ+ people. After it became socially safe and financially profitable, corporations jumped into the parade during the 90s and 00s and pretended that they were friends of queer folks all along –…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere today, so presumably we can see more with all this daylight. And yet, the view is somehow clouded. The machinations of the city, the state, the financial industrial complex, the welfare state – all whir mysteriously before you and behind. New Fed Chair, new agreement with Iran, new bombs in Lebanon. SpaceX drops…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The first World Cup match kicked off just across the river in New Jersey yesterday, and last night the hometown champion Knicks took over your rooftop—or at least a giant screen courtesy of your cousin Eddie, who hosted a raucous watch party where fair-weather fans from every corner of the fandom universe yelled at referees, second-guessed coaches, and hugged…
Basketball. Football. Sidewalks. Work It.
New York, for us, is at least three things right now: the Knicks, FIFA, and the streets.
The city is dreaming of a championship for the first time since 1999. If the Knicks win Game 3 tomorrow night at home, it may be pandemonium. You’ll hear even more Prince in the streets than you already have, as his anthem “1999” continues to pour from bars,…
A scintillating selection of images this week as we travel to a Jersey boardwalk and the erupting Brooklyn scene called Bushwick Collective. The trio of foxes by Bordalo is still rocking after a year, and the small flood of international and local talent has once again transformed walls in the formerly industrial, still gritty Brooklyn neighborhood that has welcomed about 400 artists to paint…
Welcome to BSA’s Images of the Week – our selection of art on the streets that collectively document the evolution of the scene from our perspective.
It’s a rainy Memorial Day weekend in New York and many picnics, war memorial events, camping trips, hikes in the Catskills, shares on Long Island, and strolls to the park are impacted, with the dreary cold weather canceling many plans. We start our…
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We were running up that hill this week to see the designer currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, Iris van Herpen, in the exhibition _Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses_. Her work often looks less like traditional couture and more like living systems captured in motion — borrowing from coral formations, jellyfish,…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Happy Mother’s Day – to all the mothers and caretakers who have watched over us, whether here or in heaven. Today, we honor your love, care, determination, sacrifice, guidance, creativity, patience, and sleepless nights.
We bring you news from the art on the streets, from the visual messengers who archive our city existence as we walk, run, limp, hop, dance,…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Yo, don’t sleep on New York – we’re still setting an eclectic standard of outlaw graffiti and street art and out-of-your-mind people on the street, in the clubs, concerts, and parks. When the weather warms like this week, all the subcultures emerge again on the streets, out of their apartments after a long winter, looking for action, and thankfully, there is…
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Half a century since the Ramones bolted onto the New York music scene with their debut album, they helped supercharge popular culture from the subculture side, defining an anti-institutional DIY ethos that pushed back against the bloated arena-rock appetites of the sleeping masses. At least that’s what the self-styled historians of the time…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Yes, the Trump war on Iran drags on, months after he declared victory. Unipolar has gone up in flames, and multipolar is the world reality when it comes to power, geopolitics, and solving problems, contributing to the news headlines feeling bi-polar from one day to the next.
Did you see the new graffiti-on-a-subway-car-themed Brooklyn lapel pin sported by…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. We are following, with you and the rest of the world, the negotiations between Iran and the Trumpsters. We imagine that you cannot trust anything that comes from a foreign leader who said earlier in the week “a whole civilization will die tonight” in a social media post. Meanwhile, a 2-liter Coke is $4.10 at your local deli – about the same as a gallon of…
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This week, we focus on some of the recent panels from a community wall project that consistently refreshes the view for people in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Founded in 2015 by artist and curator Jeff Beler, who developed the site after securing permission to transform construction fencing around a fire-damaged, long-abandoned building into…
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Across thousands of U.S. cities and streets yesterday, speakers at the ‘No Kings’ marches framed the protests as a mass rejection of executive overreach—calling for protection of civil rights, enforcement of limits on presidential power, and an end to aggressive anonymous immigration crackdowns. The dangerously growing war—and concerns about its escalation and…
Spring began this week officially in the Northern Hemisphere, and the new year began in Iran. Our city celebrated the end of Ramadan and St Patrick’s Day, with Mayor Mamdami joining Muslim New Yorkers for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Prospect Park and also attending a Catholic Mass, and marching in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Fifth Avenue parade.
Now four weeks into the war he started—and with little…
Spring is arriving, but conversations around the city keep circling back to the war—bombings, oil prices, and the prospect of boots on the ground. At bars, clubs, and bagel shops, the mood turns serious quickly. There’s little joking about it. Mostly, people wonder how this war began when so few seem to support it; recent polls put approval around 29%. Meanwhile, governments in more than 50…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Many street artists and graffiti writers have stayed away from painting new works these last few months because winter has been so brutal and relentless in New York. Grey has been the predominant color so far this year.
So you have to expand your vision to discover something new if you are trekking through our dirty old town. Travel to new parts of the city,…
The Blizzard of ’26, which New York endured this week, is already a fading memory. We have fresh chaotic news every day, keeping everyone off-kilter, with purpose – some would say.
Snowmanhenge has melted, French street artist JR plans to transform Pont Neuf bridge this summer in Paris, and in Texas they’re erasing queer and black folks from the streets. Here in the city we’re going to keep an…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. This week in New York, we had a Chinese New Year, the beginning of Ramadan, the beginning of Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday), and we are expecting our first blizzard in 8 years. Minneapolis wants all of ICE out of their city and state, The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs, the US is ramping up military threats toward Iran, and Mamdami is…
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A new study shows New York’s artist population is declining for the first time in decades due largely to housing costs, and most people here will agree with that conclusion. Brooklyn-based Street Artist Marka27 (Victor Quiñonez) found that censorship is strong on campus when his exhibition addressing immigration…