“Dog Days” by Ramon Haindl

Ramon Haindl is a photographer and filmmaker based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His personal work is a continuous documentation of life’s fleeting moments, and he describes his recent series, “Dog Days,” taken during the warmest time of the year, as “an ode to friendship, eternal youth, and chirping crickets.” See more from “Dog Days” below!

Make Art, Not War, For Ukraine

March 28, 2022 by Nigel Tsopo in News Over the past month as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, many people worldwide are speaking out against the ongoing situation as we’re continually seeing Ukrainian families being displaced from their homes in the millions.  Displate Stand With Ukraine Movement During this time at Displate, we’ve made a call for designers to join […]

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.27.22

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! One of the first graffiti writers to name themselves after a laptop, ACER got up big on the front of the New Museum this week, which may be one of the most relevant shows they have presented in recent years. Just kidding, he’s not named after a laptop. Police will certainly be after […]

On the spot: Icosphere

Indian visual artist Rahul Das, aka Icosphere, blends futuristic environments with a synthwave touch and creates truly 3-d(ope) art. He builds theatrical sceneries filled with tension and makes the impression that the lone figure faces something greater. Playing with light, colors, and composition, Rahul Das confronts us with a mystery behind his work. We caught up with him to reveal […]

Artist Spotlight: Simona Ruscheva

A dynamic series exploring the idea of what it means to be galactic beings by London-based artist Simona Ruscheva. Continuing to pursue the aesthetics of her Fire series, Ruscheva’s Galactic series features warm glazes with burning background hues. Reminiscent of a phoenix rising from the ashes, these paintings explore the life cycle of birth, death, and re-birth. As she explains […]

BSA Film Friday: 03.25.22

f Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening:1. SpY Reflection2. One Minute of Dance Per Day March 20, 2022: Danse 2623 – Nadia Vadori-Gauthier3. The Moon Lady. Michelle Obama Mural in Chicago by Royyal Dog “In ‘REFLECTION’, SpY makes use of such common elements of street furniture as convex traffic […]

Hyland Mather Floats Within an “Ocean of Being”

Assemblage and collage don’t get much attention in the street art scene, let alone the graffiti scene, perhaps because these art-making techniques will not typically trigger police sirens and lights. You may be thoughtfully arranging a composition of found wood and metal elements from a nearby dumpster on the derelict wall of an abandoned building at 11 pm for no […]

Artist Spotlight: Rain Szeto

A selection of recent work by San Francisco, California-based artist Rain Szeto. Working with ink and watercolor, Szeto captures the idle moments of contentment in our daily lives. She hopes to convey a sense of “nostalgia, and the quiet celebration of life” with her illustrations. “I’m glad if my works can make people happy,” she says See more from Rain […]