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There doesn't seem to be anything more 1984 than taking what was one of the most popular selling books of the 21st century and printing an alternative text upon its ashes. There is that wonderful moment in Orwell's masterwork that reads "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every dat...

Okay, okay, okay, Cape Town-based artist Dada Khanyisa isn't a Dadaist, so maybe the title here is misleading. But they are having a solo show currently at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and they are part of the roster of the great Stevenson gallery and they are making work that is both politically astute but also about this ideas of what they say is "going out culture, but also going in culture." S...

Let's talk about morphing. Better yet, let's talk about the images and visions that we have that are in-between our reality, like when you snap to focus and there are blurred lines and a bit of a shaky floater in your eyeline. You might see some crazy shit. For Sara Birns, she is a painter of morphing visions and facial structures, things that are recognizably unrecognizable. "I wanted to capture,...

The airbrush is a utilitarian tool. That is the beauty of it. It can be a fine art device, of course, as is the case with so many brilliant studio artists today, but it can also be an everyday tool, customizing cars, painting industrial objects, sign paintings, you name it. And for Cato, the London-based artist who is both in the fine arts and music, the airbrush is a tool to tell a story, a new s...

When you walked through the prestigious Armory Show a few weeks ago, April Bey's solo booth with Bahamas-based Tern Gallery, was the standout. The fair itself was quite strong, but there was something about walking into a universe, the April Bey universe, that was transcendental and hypnotic, immersive. Bey is political and poignant, with a sense of humor and harsh social critique that has been ho...

Shadi Al-Atallah 's newest solo show, Fistfight , begins with an excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh and seems apt to start right here: “huge arms gripped huge arms, foreheads crashed like wild bulls, the two men staggered, they pitched against houses, the doorposts trembled, the outer walls shook, they careened through the streets, they grappled each other, limbs intertwined, each huge body strain...

"Everything in our universe has a dual manifestation," says Mexico City born Horacio Quiroz when you just take a gander at this bio. Well, here we go, you know this conversation is going to be a good one. As the artist opened his new solo show, Goddesses of Spoiled Lands, at Annka Kultys Gallery in London, duality of existence is definitely on the mind. In this insightful and revealing conversatio...

When you name your solo show Say Cheese , there are a lot of puns that can come from it. Ana Barriga did just that for her solo show at Carl Kostyál in London . Say Cheese makes you smile, makes you focus your attention on something that may stand the test of time really, but also puts you into another realm of posing and posturing. And for the Madrid-based painter, she is ready for this moment. "...

We can call this a new season for Radio Juxtapoz, and Jon Key is the perfect guest. Situating himself between Brooklyn and Margate, UK, Key has a thread through his practice and his life, one that involves family (he is a twin), art, design and adventure. Though his work is focused on the relationships and heritage he is constantly discovering, he is weaving, both through painting and conceptual f...

When we have talked about British painter and muralist Lucy McLauchlan over the years, we have used descriptors like spontaneous and natural, organic and natural. She transformed almost room and building sized brushstrokes, often in black and white, as extensions of her being and adapting to the surfaces she paints on. She may have been part of the street art scene, but she was channeling environm...

We have spent years trying to get Martyn Reed on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast. The main reason being that the man behind perhaps the most famous, enduring and renowned street art festival in the world, Nuart, has changed the way we contextualize and think about the role of art in our everyday lives. Every year, whether in Stavanger, Norway until recently and now his 7th edition in Aberdeen, Scotland...

It's rare we get an artist to come out of retirement for a Radio Juxtapoz podcast, but there we were in Aberdeen, Scotland this past weekend with the pioneering and legendary artist SWOON. She didn't retire per se; she retired from street art . The consuming nature of the art form she felt took her away from other creative outlets she wanted pursue, like installations, philanthropy, museum exhibit...

As part of our series of live podcasts recorded at The Crystal Ship Festival in Ostende, Belgium last month, today we share a series of conversations from legendary photographer Martha Cooper, artist Jaune and festival organizer and curator, Mélissa Cucci. This episode was recorded live at a special evening of Radio Juxtapoz conversations at the Festival, with each giving their unique perspective...

There are thousands of paintings that exist in the backrooms of museums, forgotten by time but still exquisite and tell the story of a period of time. Like street art, that transforms our public spaces and reimagines the experience of city or challenges our perceptions of where art can and should exist, and what is ownership, the practice of Julien de Casabianca is perfectly linked to art history...

They are below the eye-line, hidden from view, just above the curbs or sidewalks. Brussels based stencil-artist Jaune creates artwork that is miniature in scale but large in concept, a series of city and garbage workers stenciled with incredible detail and a metaphorical look at the things that hold our infrastructures together and the ways we ignore how a city works. There is the idea that street...

Palestinian-American artist Saj Issa was born in St Louis, studies at UCLA and is influenced and moved by the imagery of the Arab World. This is all important in understanding where she comes from in her ceramic works and paintings: she is showing you where she comes from and where she is going, and most importantly, the visuals that she has been embedded with her entire life. Her parents emigrate...

We can't believe Conor Harrington hasn't been on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast before. The 3x cover artist has been a symbol for our magazine for the last 15 years or so, an artist who learned his chops as a teenager on the streets as a graffiti writer, honed those skills in art school and then found a way to combine the two worlds into his fine art practice. For years, Conor has been painting these...

It's a conversation about sports but also doesn't have to be. Nostalgia is a huge part about sports. So is myth. So is the idea of athletics being larger than life. For Julian Pace, the Seattle-born and now Los Angeles-based Italian-American painter (his name is not pronounced like the iconic gallery), the uniforms and the symbolism of athletics is at the heart of his newest solo show, Front and B...

The rules of fine art have finally, and for the better, been bended and broken and destroyed. What used to be just some white walls in a white cube has now become a bit of a evolution and revolution: film, digital art, tech, digital collage.. its all on the board, all here, and all here to stay.     In today's episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, our Doug Gillen sits down with London-based Niger...

We love finding all the nuanced stories happening in and around the street art world. Not just the blockbuster shows, but the political and activist areas that often shape how we construct both the print publication and the podcast itself. So today, we present Daniel Albanese and his project, OUT IN THE STREETS. Daniel “Dusty” Albanese is the New York City-based photographer and filmmaker behind t...

When you enter the website of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse , you are greeted with a message that reads "80.000.000 Hooligans." What does it mean? Does it matter? Because whatever you see in the works of Wayne Horse is an entry point to a bizarro world that is a bit ghoulish and a full of debauchery. What started as a career in graffiti has evolved into highly-detailed, intense works that have...

We are lucky at Juxtapoz that we get to talk the emerging art scene before most others are waving microphones and cameras in their faces. But with Guts Gallery , a London hub for all things emerging and flourishing hub for exhibitions and up-and-coming artists, there is perfect balance of all the things that make covering art crucial. "Progress lies at the heart of Guts’ ethos," and in this two-pa...

Ian Strange isn't your traditional street artist, hell, he isn't your traditional installation artist. Architectural interventionist? Spatial performance artist? On his website, he notes, "His practice includes collaborative community-based projects, architectural interventions, and exhibitions resulting in photography, film, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, research, and documentary...

“… painting Central Park is a challenge because there's so many paintings of it and everyone has their own personalized visual. But I thought if I just paint it in my own way, it's going to be unique.” —Stipan Tadić This was the way we began our Winter 2023 Quarterly , with a quote from Croatian-born, NYC-based painter, Stipan Tadić. The quote seemed quite apt, as he was talking about a confidence...

Yes, here we are, Radio Juxtapoz turns 100. And what a way to turn 100 then to look back at the golden age of... well, suspended adulthood? For this 100th episode, we sit down with Laura June Kirsch on the occasion of her new photography book, Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults In The Age Of Hope , a look at the unique era that was the Obama years, and what many would see as both a carnal...