Brooklyn Street Art Newsletter - June 9, 2013

Images of the Week: 06.09.13 Big murals are proliferating at the moment but it is still the domain of the individual street artist to smack up smaller works, stickers, stencils, wheatpastes and the like. We’re featuring quite a few of these smaller personal pieces this week in the mix of some larger ones. Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this ... Read More

Interactive Walls with Russia’s Concrete Jungle Experimental Walls that React To Your Movement Vladivostok-based Street Artists Feliks Mashkov and Vadim Gerasimenko have created a lot of graffiti and Street Art murals on city walls in the last few years, usually with aerosol. Just last year we got to watch them paint a wall right here in Brooklyn. Like many young techno-savvy young ... Read More

BSA Film Friday: 06.07.13 Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: Petro Wodkins Taking a P**s in Belgium, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada in Belgium, UnO in Italy, PROZAK in Poland, and Mr. Rogers Singing in Your Hood. BSA Special Feature: Art Culture Jamming with Petro Wodkins Taking a P**s in Belgium In this ... Read More

Judith Supine Update: Summer ’13 New Sublime Ladies Clawing For Your Eyes The elusive transgendered Judith Supine has been very busy snipping away the flesh of many a model and archetype, then applying giant tubes of lipstick to their floooouuuurescent visages. Judith Supine (photo © Jaime Rojo) Its not any one thing in particular that drives a brain batty when Supine splashes across your ... Read More

QRST on the Streets; Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Goat Man Cometh Street Artist QRST is back on Brooklyn streets with more modernly magnetic and captivatingly surreal work than before, and just as mired in the muck of human dynamics as ever.  Emblematic of the new street art storytelling practice we have been highlighting for a few years now, these uniquely old-fangled pieces are one-off bits of mastery ... Read More

Hygienic Dress League Blings a Boarded Building in Cleveland hygienic dress league (HDL) recently gold-plated an entire boarded up and neglected building in the Collinwood section of Cleveland as part of their ongoing conceptual branding art project. In the process, the destitute structure transformed into a solid block of bling. Part Street Art, part culture jammer that brings to mind the Billboard Liberation Front, HDL ... Read More

JMR Escapes to Hong Kong   Street Artist JMR has travelled far east from Brooklyn, where we first started seeing his work on the street in the 2000s. Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, the geometry loving abstractionist had a solo show called “Escape” with Joyce Gallery that drew a lot of new fans to his line based work. The really ... Read More

Images Of The Week: 06.02.13 Stoop sales, hula hoops, fire hydrants, ladders and paint. Get me one of those ices from that guy with the cart on the corner, will ya? Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring A1one, Chris Stain, Creepy, Elbow Toe, Essen, Foxx Face, Icy & Sot, LMNOP, Maya Hayuk, Mr. Toll, Rubin, Sexer, Werds, ... Read More

Entes, Pesimo and Conrad for “Noche De Los Museos” in Lima, Peru Last Friday Lima had their 5th Annual “Night of the Museums,” where the city welcomes throngs of people to walk through and see art in this metropolis that boasts an appreciable number of museums including Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, Museum of Art of Lima, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum ... Read More

BSA Film Friday: 05.31.13 Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: Las Calles Hablan : Street Art in Barcelona, RONZO Goes pre-historic with Skatersaurus, SAMO© by Aaron Rose and Thomas McMahan. BSA Special Feature: Las Calles Hablan : Street Art in Barcelona “Las Calles Hablan is a story about discovering a ... Read More

All Female Power on the Bushwick Tip, Sis We received a roaring response from BSA readers about yesterday’s post on Bushwick and the changing nature of the scene on the street and its relation to this artists neighborhood that feels like it is on the cusp of full-throttle gentrification. With all the factors implied for a maturing giant cultural moment years in the ... Read More

Bushwick Is Hot Now. Hurry! Bushwick Open Studios is Paved With Street Art Brooklyn’s already percolating artists neighborhood called Bushwick continues to thrive despite the circling of real estate agents, lifestyle brands and celebrity chefs. Born in the mid-late 2000s as it’s older sister Williamsburg to the West began to professionalize, this noisily industrial and dirty artists haven got a reprieve ... Read More

Royce Bannon, Alice Mizrachi, and Bluster One on Piano in NYC Streets Street Artists Among those Painting Pianos for “Sing for Hope” this Year Out in New York streets and parks and public places will be 88 pianos for you to play starting on Saturday, so it is time for you to practice your stunning rendition of “Chopsticks”, that Stevie Wonder jam in your head, or that sweeping ... Read More

Colorful Character Jim Avignon Paints in Peru and Brazil

Solo in Lima and with Carlos Dias in São Paulo
Today we have photos from two new projects by Berlin based Street Artist and fine artist and Renaissance man Jim Avignon that he just completed in the southern hemisphere.

São Paulo, Brazil
As part of a cultural exchange project for the Goethe Institute, Avignon and Brazilian graffiti/fine artist ...

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