One of the greatest contributions to the art lexicon is treating street art as an active tool in understanding how we use and view public space. It has always been insufficient to simply label it as “street art” or “graffiti” and neglect the broader context in which it can be appreciated on both micro and […]
No doubt, there are a lot of mural festivals; in fact, too many, if you ask me. When the senior center starts taking field trips to see cool new graffiti on the walls of your town’s “old town,” the coolness factor of the mural festival has lost much of its… coolness. With the idea generally […]
It’s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul Cézanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer Félix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed “The […]
Steve Turner is pleased to present E-scape, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Budapest-based Luca Sára Rózsa and new weavings by Nairobi-based Dickens Otieno. Both artists make works about the environment and humanity’s connection to it. Rózsa uses loose and expressive brush strokes in lustrous color to depict feral humans in nature. Four of her works […]
Hey, we were right to call it Banksy’s London Street Zoo all along. After 8 days of painting around London with different stenciled animals, today, Day 9, sees Banksy head to the London Zoo to paint a gorilla letting the animals out of confinement. If this is the last day of the Street Zoo, it […]
Are we having fun? At the artist Banksy’s suggestion, we are having a little fun as go across the English capital (or UK capital if you want, it is, indeed, the capital of both) in Banksy’s London Street Zoo. The rhino, cleverly placed atop an old car, is on Westmoor Street in Charlton, south-east London. […]
Erick Medel doesn’t just take pictures, he sews them. Through a unique process involving denim and brightly colored threads, Medel documents through photography his Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles and finds the most mundane city scenes to then transform into highly detailed works that come from his sewing machine rather than oil paint. On the […]
Angela Anh Nguyen is a self-educated textile artist referencing colonial hypocrisy, death metal and a wild array of perspectives. She stays tough while tufting, broaching hardcore topics with soft materials. Her utilitarian, substantive rug art is imbued with a fierce objective and a dedicated hand. If any artist could be described by the old adage, […]
There are those moments, the ones we literally designate as those where history stops and becomes a chapter. In America, you talk of 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy and MLK being shot, the night Obama was elected. This past Saturday may have been another, when the media call that Biden had won the electoral college sent […]
It’s a new season here at Radio Juxtapoz, and where we were hoping that Fall would bring back art openings and a sense of normalcy to our already tumultuous year, we are still a bit in flux. This month we released our newest Fall 2020 Quarterly edition with cover artist Bisa Butler, whose phenomenal and […]
