Come see the US premiere of Young Man Falling by Danish filmmaker Martin de Thurah and the rare short films of Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo in a quarterly screening series from Flux and the Hammer Museum. The screenings go down this Thursday, November 20, from 8-11pm at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum.
Admission is free, RSVP is suggested. Seating is first come, first served and RSVP does not guarantee seating. Box office opens at 7pm. Visit flux.net for more information.
It’s late November, and that means December is just around the corner. Why should you care? Because after December comes January- and an entirely new year along with it. That means you need a new 2009 calendar!
Luckily, we’ve got you covered. Buy any 3 Juxtapoz tees and you’ll get a FREE Robert Williams Calendar along with your purchase!
It’s the best of both worlds: you’ll look fly in your new Jux gear and even have a sweet new calendar to write down all the dates you’ll surely score when sporting your new tees.
Grab men’s tees here and women’s tees here.
Portland-based artist Jesse Reno just dropped a new book called Forward - Like a Flower that Only Desires to Blossom. This 40 page, full-color book features Reno’s artistry and musings.
The artist also just released a coinciding video, shown below. The video ”documents the process of the mural that I painted this summer in Mexico City for Art Fest,” Reno told Juxtapoz. Sweet. Two days of painting fun compressed into 9 minutes of video footage. Watch Reno get up in Mexico and then grab his new book at jessereno.com/forward
Everything good must come to an end! This is the final segment of ABOVE's 6-month long SouthCentral tour where he painted his way from Brazil up to Mexico with his witty wordplay paintings.
Learn more at goabove.com
Once again during this year’s Art Basel, graff writers and street artists will hit the Wynwood streets in Miami’s second installment of the internationally acclaimed, site specific, street level, mural installation Primary Flight.
This year’s exhibition features 40 of today’s most respected local and international graffiti artists, including Blek le Rat (Juxtapoz #95) David Choe (Juxtapoz #72) Retna, Revok, Reyes (all in Juxtapoz #78) Will Barras (Juxtapoz #91) and many more!
Graffiti has come a long way, from the back seats of police cars to gracing the walls of the world’s greatest collections and museums. Primary Flight’s original concept and purpose is to provide these artists with outdoor, concrete wall space, allowing them free reign to install their art as they see fit - back into graffiti’s original environment - in what is arguably its most appealing format.
Curated by BOOKSIIII, Lynn Yohana Howard, Logan Hicks, and Anthony Spinello, Primary Flight will take off during Art Basel, December 4 – 7, 2008.
Maps outlining the street installation will be available for download online at primaryflight.com and on location in the Wynwood streets.
The highly anticipated exhibit Two Broken Knees, a new series of work by Herbert Baglione, opens in London at Lazarides Gallery Greek Street this Friday, November 21st, 2008.
If you’re not yet familiar with Baglione’s work, you should be. This Brazilian artist is an established contemporary painter who draws on strong simple mural designs, extreme physical figures, and human and alien icons, rendered in the style of cave drawings. His style has influenced the vibrant street art movement in South America for at least ten years. His position as one of Brazil’s most distinctive artists has also cemented his international acclaim in the design and art worlds.
Jaded with the scene and what he saw around him, Baglione started experimenting with new ways to look at the street, using the extremes of urban architecture to create his paintings, provoking a new dialogue. The effect is both visually and psychologically arresting in its intensity. Two Broken Knees will exhibit at Lazarides Gallery Greek Street November 21 - December 20, 2008.
Watch the artist work in the video below, and then take an exclusive sneak preview look at ten of the twenty new acrylic and enamel paintings from Baglione’s Two Broken Knees this way…
Here’s Juxtapoz issue #3 coming fresh off the press from the summer of 1995. Hmm…what were you doing back in ’95? OJ Simpson was on trial, it was the hottest summer in decades on record for American Midwesterners, the DVD was born, and the true Jux fan was reading all about the history of the rock poster in our #3 issue! Relive the glory of ’95, get schooled on the rock poster, and check out Issue #3 here.
Rebel8, the brand of tattoo legend Mike Giant (Juxtapoz cover #80) just dropped their Winter 2008 line, now available for your viewing and purchasing pleasure, at their online shop. Heavily tattooed, joint puffing hotties just never get old. Get some.
Street artist Gaia sent us an email we wanted to share:
“My girlfriend and I are collaborating on a project that will culminate in three installations, the final one concluding in January for a show at Thinkspace gallery in Los Angeles. The pictures included are from our first piece that was set along the Jones Falls River. We had a little gathering from people at our school before the bridge was washed away with the recent rains.”
Allow us to further explain: The Uroboros Project is a collaborative effort between artists Rachel Lowing and Gaia. Spawned from a mutual interest in articulating the inexorably intertwined relationship between people and nature, they examine the act of consumption and its implications on contemporary life.
The project’s title, Uroboros, is derived from a circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail as an emblem of wholeness, totality, or infinity. The photo above showcases their bridge, part of the first installation by the Jones Falls River in Baltimore. The photo below highlights the accompanying, and extremely time-intensive, piece that includes a hand-made dried fish skin wrap and portrait print on plastic bags. Get it? Fish skins, plastic bags...nature, consumption, infinity? If you're still a bit confused, learn more on The Uroboros Project at uroborosproject.blogspot.com
What do Frank Kozik and Ho Chi Minh have in common? Hopefully not too much, but infamous toy designer Kozik has molded this bust of the Vietnamese leader in a 14” green vinyl, hand-cast resin sculpture. And that's not all: Minh comes complete with his own machine gun!
Grab some Communist love because these guys are limited, signed, and made of shiny green vinyl. What more could you ever need?
Grab your Frank Kozik Ho Chi Minh now in our online shop.
Artist PaperMonster got together with the cats at Art Whino to organize a group showing simply called Stencil. You guessed it: all the artists featured are stencil artists. You’re so clever.
A massive installation of stencil art, most of which is affordable to “the youngest of the young and the most passionate of collectors,” Stencil features work by BLACKBOOKS, Chris Stain, Jef Aerosol, Logan Hicks, PaperMonster, and many more.
Take a peek at exhibit photos and snag details at papermonster.wordpress.com
Smoking Jackets for Jerry is the next exhibit to hit Brooklynite Gallery November 22nd. First off, lets get things clear: Kuildoosh (pronounced Coo-el-doosh) and Wet Shame Knights (WSK) are both part and parcel of the same creative package from South West England. The three artists behind the duel crew identity are Mat Eko, Dan Mudwig, and Graham Paris, some of the most progressive English artists of the graffiti and street art genre.
Kuildoosh’s working styles have been molded by the need to advance, elaborate, and ornament the letterform and alphabet. In recent years, their joining with artist Mudwig has led to the emergence of a far more unpredictable and experimental style. Much of the group's outdoor painting is now done in secret locations, deep in the depths of the English countryside. Luckily for you, it will be on display in Brooklyn from November 22nd thru December 20th,
See what these crazy Brits have to offer in Smoking Jackets for Jerry (aside from the tasty inflatable fun above) at brooklynitegallery.com. If that doesn’t help clear things up, take a look at the video below (which, to be honest, just may make you even more confused) and then hit up kuildoosh.com.
In It Together features dual showings Drill, Baby, Drill! by Nicholas Bohac and Matthew Rodriguez and Gathered Together by Saelee Oh and Jill Bliss at Tinlark Gallery in Hollywood. Drill, Baby, Drill! is the Tinlark debut of mixed media artworks by Nicholas Bohac and Matthew Rodriguez. An MFA graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Nicholas Bohac combines printmaking, painting, drawing, and materials such as sand and foil to reconsider the landscape tradition, eliminating the idealization common in the genre and injecting, in its place, commentary on the ecological climate in which we coexist.
Matthew Rodriguez lives and works in Austin, Texas. His paintings, photography and public art convey political and social themes of environmental stewardship as well as addressing our unpredictable relationships with our loved ones. He disguises these hefty subject matters with both humor and finesse.
In the project room, Saelee Oh joins with Jill Bliss to create Gathered Together, a mixed media installation (shown) inspired by their 4th annual collaborative calendar project. Their created microcosms of detached yet connected elements remind us that although we may be isolated "islands" at times, we are never truly alone in the world. In It Together runs thru December 6, 2008 but if you can’t make it out to Los Angeles, take a look at some of the work featured in the show here…
Two of our favorite Brazilian artists, Cena7 (work shown above) and Emol will debut new watercolors and drawings in a two-man exhibition entitled Sarambeque Maloca in Brasília, Brazil on November 18th.
Both of these artists have become legends on the streets of Brazil, and will move their colorful imagery indoors for this special showing. If you're lucky enough to be in Brazil, we highly recommend checking out Sarambeque Maloca in person.
See more artwork and snag details (well, if you can read Portuguese) at blog.qaz-urbanart.com.
Noferin (the collaborative minds of Candy and Nicho) just released two adorable, and very affordable, new limited edition prints through their website.
Delve into the whimsical world of Carrara Island and its inhabitants that Noferin have built their lives around – meshing the fine art, design and literary worlds together in a complete and adorably unique package.
More at noferin.com
Download the FREE MP3 of the Riverboat Gamblers new song "A Choppy, Yet Sincere Apology" from their forthcoming album Underneath The Owl that will be released on March 10, 2009 by signing up for the Juxtapoz Newsletter!
Volcom Entertainment has set up a sweet, secret spot where you can grab the new song for free before anyone else gets his or her sticky lil fingers on it. All you need to do is sign up today for the Juxtapoz Newsletter and we’ll email you a password to download the song for free!
Later this week, we’ll release a site to all so that anyone who is already signed up for the newsletter, but still wants to get in on the Riverboat Gamblers new song action, can get a chance at it as well!
Don’t wait, this is only available today! Sign up now here.
World AIDS Day is coming up on December 1st, so in an ongoing effort at curbing the disease, why not sport some (RED) and help fight AIDS in Africa by either customizing a pair of kicks with the latest 1HUND(RED) prints or choosing a shoe designed by the 1HUND(RED) artists.
This pair of Converse’s is by 1HUND(RED) artist Jeremyville. The world-renowned illustrator and designer will also be featured in an upcoming issue of Juxtapoz, so kill three birds with one stone and help fight AIDS, sport some dope shoes, and rep a future Juxtapoz artist by grabbing these kicks now. More 1HUND(RED) shoes at www.converse.com.
More on Jeremyville at www.jeremyville.com
During this lovely third week of November, Cinema Tuesdays presents an advance screening of award-winning Spanish thriller Timecrimes at Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán in Los Angeles.
Director Nacho Vigalondo will be joining in tomorrow from Spain and calling out all Angelenos for a Karaoke Challenge immediately following the film screening. Special guest Karaoke Queen Raina Lee will moderate and best crooners, based on audience applause-o-meter, will win a copy of Raina's book, Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Ultimate Guide To Karaoke Domination. Timecrimes is a film that takes a bold, difficult premise and brings the rarely-tread time travel framework to suspenseful, yet intelligent, new heights. Part of Magnet Releasing's 6 Shooter Film Series, Timecrimes will be released in theaters on December 12th.
It all kicks off at 7pm tomorrow, November 19th, so make sure to RSVP for free admission at flux.net/timecrimes
Dr Sketchy’s creator and fabulously sexy illustrator, Molly Crabapple, has been busily updating her site with new pieces in the fine art section and new free iPhone wallpapers in the Freebies section.
Molly says, “Go forth and ogle” so do just that at mollycrabapple.com
Once again during this year’s Art Basel, graff writers and street artists will hit the Wynwood streets in Miami’s second installment of the internationally acclaimed, site specific, street level, mural installation Primary Flight. 
In It Together features dual showings Drill, Baby, Drill! by Nicholas Bohac and Matthew Rodriguez and Gathered Together by Saelee Oh and Jill Bliss at 
Noferin (the collaborative minds of Candy and Nicho) just released two adorable, and very affordable, 
Dr Sketchy’s creator and fabulously sexy illustrator,