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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.23.14 Editorz, 2014-11-23 04:02 Starting to think about what we are thankful for this week as we approach Thanksgiving. So many of our neighbors here in New York are going to be truly thankful that immigration reform, the first in about 28 years, will begin to protect many families and workers from the threat of arrest and being torn […]   Searching For Stikman: An Interview With The Elusive Artist Editorz, 2014-11-22 05:02 Startling Revelations With Him in the Back Yard Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo) When the D.I.Y. movement met graffiti in the early 2000s in cities like New York, LA, Paris, Berlin, and London, it also brought with it the art school students and the in-laws from back home. Hip Hop culture had made graffiti cool […]   BSA Film Friday: 11.21.14 Editorz, 2014-11-21 05:02 Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. We Don’t Need More Rats: The Clandestine White-washing of 5Pointz 2. DISTORT by Element Tree and Art Primo 3. HOT TEA “UUGGHH” BSA Special Feature: We Don’t Need More Rats: The Clandestine White-washing of 5Pointz Hard […] Fighting Prohibition with MTO In Lexington, KY Editorz, 2014-11-20 05:02 “The Bluegrass State” is probably one of the first things you think of when you hear about Kentucky. Also bourbon, horse racing, and college basketball.  And Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. Nope, street art and graffiti don’t spring to mind. MTO “My Name Is MO” For PRHBTN 2014. Street Art Festival in Lexington, KY. (photo […]   As Street Art Turns to Public Art in Barcelona Editorz, 2014-11-19 05:02 Spain’s Second Largest City Hosts “Open Walls” A popular city for Street Art in the early-2000s that attracted artists from across Europe and elsewhere to its intimate doorways and darkened small streets, Barcelona has become less inviting to illegal painting in recent years due to an organized campaign to contain the freewheeling art and convert […] Graffiti Haven “American Flats” Slated for Destruction in Nevada Editorz, 2014-11-13 05:02 The news of the impending destruction of a primary spot for graffiti fans in Nevada has saddened a number of artists who have spent long hours painting and socializing at the former site of the American Flat Mill in Virginia City. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal in late October the Bureau of Land Management has […]