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Recognized experts on the evolving Street Art scene of the past two decades, Harrington and Rojo have authored two books documenting the street art movement during its current explosion in New York City, Brooklyn Street Art and Street Art New York, published by Prestel Publishing/Random House. Their essays, introductions and photography have appeared in many publications including Eloquent Vandals: A History of Nuart Norway , Community Service (The C215 monograph), and PANTHEON: A History of Art from the Streets of NYC.


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Jaime Rojo, Co-Founder and Editor of Photography at BrooklynStreetArt.com

Rojo is a New York-based photographer whose documentation of thousands of New York street art images is known and published weekly on many websites throughout the street art community. His fine art photographs have been shown in galleries in the Chelsea, Williamsburg and DUMBO neighborhoods of New York and auctioned at Phillips De Pury. In his other career as an interior designer, Rojo’s design work has been published in such periodicals as Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, House and Garden, House Beautiful, and The New York Times Home Section.

Steven P. Harrington, Editor in Chief of BrooklynStreetArt.com.
Harrington is senior creative director for print and interactive projects in New York City with a client list that spans art, advertising, architecture, beauty, fashion, real estate, finance, electronic and print media, including The New York Times. A trained fine artist and lover of the creative process, his fine art, animation and video installation work has been shown in galleries and in the streets of New York.

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Blog Entries by Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Street Artist JR : "Inside Out" Closes on Broadway

(1) Comments | Posted May 15, 2013 | 6:03 PM

In a New York minute, the Curtain Opens and Closes on "Inside Out"

The daily snaking lines of now famous fans occupying a slice of the Times Square footprint had their last chance at the Big Time in NYC as last weeks show rolled to a close, and the large...

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Hellbent, Abstractions and "The Mixtape Series" in NYC

(5) Comments | Posted May 8, 2013 | 3:10 PM

In-Studio Visit With the Guy Who Took His Street Name from Richard Hell

"Even Romantics Love Violence", Hellbent's first solo gallery show unveils the graffiti / Street Artist doing a new collection in abstraction, "The Mix Tape Series". With each piece named after a song he was listening to while...

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FKDL and His Vintage Glamour Women on Street Walls

(0) Comments | Posted May 2, 2013 | 3:40 PM

FKDL's new wall celebrates Audrey Hepburn for her May 4th birthday in the Brussells district where she was born. Liz Taylor is her special guest.

There are many references to pop culture, movies, fashion, and celebrity that have appeared in street art in the last decade or so, thanks to...

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The New Face of Tel Aviv Street Art

(15) Comments | Posted April 24, 2013 | 8:44 AM

As more cities join the world street art scene, thanks largely to an enthusiastic youth culture sharing images across the internet and handheld devices, you see new artists popping up on the street almost daily. While there certainly is a developing global visual vocabulary on walls that is influenced by...

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Stencil Street Artist C215 Explores Haiti in Full Color

(2) Comments | Posted April 17, 2013 | 9:42 AM

Parisian street artist C215 has been traveling again, this time to Port Au Prince in Haiti, where he drew many curious audiences during the week-long visit to watch him create his evocative stencil portraits on columns, in doorways, along narrow walkways, on rooftops, and in streets.

"It was a very...

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Barry McGee Mid-Career at ICA Boston

(0) Comments | Posted April 10, 2013 | 10:05 AM

The mid-career survey of artist Barry McGee opened last week at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and the whole is in fact greater than the sum of its parts.

Looking at his productive timeline from the 80s as anti-establishment graffiti writer/tagger to art school student on residency to San...

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Dan Witz Creates Disturbing Street Art to Fight Political Imprisonment

(2) Comments | Posted March 27, 2013 | 12:24 PM

Street Artist Dan Witz Creates Effective Campaign with Amnesty International

"In many countries people are imprisoned simply because of their political views," begins the video just released by Dan Witz and Amnesty international.

So dangerous are those views that their outspoken owners are persecuted and hidden from us in...

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"Unpremeditated" Movie from Street Artist MTO is a Knock Out

(2) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 8:36 AM

Knock Out Film Debut from MTO: "FL: Unpremeditated Movie"

A brand new homemade documentary film by French street artist MTO shows off his aerosol and storytelling skills to deliver a one-two punch to racism and classism that bubbles just under the surface in one Floridian community.

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NYC Street Surprise for Photographer Martha Cooper on her 70th

(4) Comments | Posted March 11, 2013 | 8:04 AM

"I can't believe it. I never expected this, ever."

The famed Houston Street Wall was the site of a sidewalk surprise birthday party Saturday for photographer Martha Cooper, who was planning to stop by for what she thought would be a new mural shoot. The world famous graffiti photographer had...

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For Crochet Street Artist OLEK "The End is Far"

(7) Comments | Posted March 6, 2013 | 7:38 AM

For those who follow this sort of thing, street artist Olek has monopolized the category for pink and purple camouflage crochet sculpture on the street.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say she actually invented the category, owing as much to the D.I.Y. and hand-crafting movements as to public artists...

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El Anatsui Shows Both "Gravity and Grace" in New York

(2) Comments | Posted February 27, 2013 | 7:36 AM

Post-industrial African pointillist El Anatsui is outside at The High Line in Manhattan and inside the Brooklyn Museum right now to offer "Gravity and Grace" -- two characteristics one may associate with the man himself.

Using aluminum bottle caps and similar mass consumer materials from his home country of Nigeria,...

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Kobra Pays Honor to Architect Niemeyer in São Paulo

(0) Comments | Posted February 18, 2013 | 7:57 AM

Brazilian Street Artist Eduardo Kobra and four other painters have been working six hours a day since January 14th to complete a 52 meter high mural that honors architect Oscar Niemeyer who passed away in December just days before his 105th birthday. Covering the entire side of a skyscraper on...

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FAILE's Towering Night at the Ballet

(1) Comments | Posted January 29, 2013 | 9:41 AM

The dance of high and low art lifts 40 feet into the air as Faile unveils their repertoire of ironic pop imagery at the New York City Ballet this week. As street artists in the then-industrial wasteland of Williamsburg at the turn of the new century, Patrick Miller and Patrick...

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How & Nosm Studio Confessions

(4) Comments | Posted January 15, 2013 | 9:10 AM

It is an age of self-discovery, and the twins continue to be surprised by what they find as they attack huge walls with zeal and precision in New York, LA, Miami, Stavanger, Prague, Las Vegas, Rochester, Philadelphia, Rio -- all in the last 12 months.

Now while they prepare...

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(VIDEO) 2012 Street Art Images of the Year from BSA

(9) Comments | Posted December 17, 2012 | 9:45 PM

Of the 10,000 images he snapped of Street Art this year, photographer Jaime Rojo gives us 110 that represent some of the most compelling, interesting, perplexing, thrilling in 2012.

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Slideshow cover image of Vinz on the streets of Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jaye Moon Builds Lego Housing Units on the Street

(1) Comments | Posted December 11, 2012 | 7:48 PM

Street artist Jaye Moon is doing a diminutive deed to alleviate New York's ongoing housing crisis by leaving new buildings cradled in the limbs of trees, or wrapped around their trunks.

Using Legos as building materials, the blocked geometry of her architectural construction is carefully considered to allow for the...

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BSA Recommends: A Street Art Guide to Art Basel 2012

(14) Comments | Posted December 5, 2012 | 7:19 AM

Art Basel is set to whip Miami into a sea-foamy art-star laden froth these next few days, but art on the street is the unofficial engine that will be keeping it real.

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No one can doubt that the wave of street...

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Peek Inside Organized Chaos Of CYRCLE

(4) Comments | Posted November 28, 2012 | 10:10 AM

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. - William Somerset Maugham

Street Art collective CYRCLE couldn't agree more, and they invite you to take chaos as a hands-on personal challenge.

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Bathroom Graffiti on Canvas With Mint & Serf

(2) Comments | Posted November 21, 2012 | 8:02 AM

New canvases celebrate the graffiti-covered bar bathroom and its aggressive lack of style.

A quick snort, a scribbled tag, and you my love.

Now that you are caked with sweat and nearly deaf from gyrating and slamming your body to the music at your favorite jam-packed downtown dive, it's time...

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"The Last Picture", Jaime Rojo Shoots the Street

(5) Comments | Posted November 14, 2012 | 2:00 PM

New York streets never sleep, and they are just as raw, maddening, and wondrous as you've heard. Well known Street Art photographer Jaime Rojo cannot resist them.

He's always been attracted to the street and the uglier the neighborhood, the better. Before Rojo began shooting Street Art in the early...

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