Los Angeles isn’t one story—it stacks, collides, layers and loops back on itself in many shades. Los Angeles: A Visual Lineage understands that, from the outset, it is not about expecting a clean genealogy but about a set of parallel tracks…
Vik Muniz’s Perfect Strangers, installed at the 72nd Street station on the Q line train as part of the MTA Arts & Design program, meets you with a clarity of purpose that can feel disarming underground. It’s rare that people outside the cit…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. 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 an…
New Humans: Memories of the Future at the expanded New Museum, New York Steven P. Harrington Right on time for a global stage display of man’s inhumanity to man, the New Museum reopens on the Bowery — two years after closing for an $82 mill…
Capturing and Archiving with Photos In these recent street photos, the painted tributes read less like “artworks” in the gallery sense and more like public messages—meant to hold their place long enough for the neighborhood to recognize its…
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. 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
Out in the former mining basin of Aveyron in southern France, the Decazeville Communauté Street Art / “MurMurs” Festival has been rewriting the script on what a mural program can be. Not a quick-hit weekend of lifts and ladders, it has been…
Street artists are rarely content to stay in one lane. The same instinct that pushes a writer to scale a fence at 2 a.m. or negotiate a sanctioned wall at noon—the need to test limits, materials, audience, and self—also drives them toward u…
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 Par…
Spanish artist Gonzalo Borondo, from Valladolid, arrives at LuzMadrid Festival with Redentora, a site-specific installation that continues his steady movement from the street into more complex, immersive environments. Early on, Borondo was
“The show must go on”—a line that neatly captures a certain myth of winning through force of will. For a century, the West has exported that self-image alongside its markets and its currency: adversity as performance, persistence as virtue.…
Spring is arriving, but conversations around the city keep circling back to the war—bombings, deaths, oil prices, and the prospect of boots on the ground. At bars, clubs, and bagel shops, the mood turns serious quickly. There’s little jokin…