Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Call her a mermaid lord, puppet wizard, or punk princess—Cissi Efraimsson is many magical beings in one. Oscillating between art, film and music, she’s the first animator to anthropomorphize salmon sushi. Drawn to sea dwellers, her new film imagines salty mermaids in captivity, each of them hand-crafted…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Subliminal Projects is pleased to present These Five Kings, by Denver-based artist Ravi Zupa. For his second solo exhibition at Subliminal Projects, Zupa will utilize the entirety of the gallery presenting four different bodies of work that highlight his multidisciplinary practice. The exhibition will feature a site-specific…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker Joel Coen, a new exhibition at Luhring Augustine showcases approximately 45 of Lee Friedlander’s photographs that span the range of his 60+ year career, bringing into the equation many lesser-known images. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen’s…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Stephen Friedman Gallery in London is pleased to present American artist Sasha Gordon’s first solo exhibition in Europe. Gordon paints surreal, anthropomorphic versions of herself in hyper-realistic detail. The artist uses these doppelgängers to explore the complexity of her identity as a young, queer, Asian-American woman. Her practice recalls…

Source artforum.com  Painter Françoise Gilot, whose 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous, decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso became an international bestseller, died June 6 in New York at the age of 101. Having

Source Colossal   “Talking Shit with Amaru” (2021), mineral paint and flashe on canvas, 132 x 204 inches. All images © Eamon Ore-Giron, courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York, shared with permission A mélange of architectural structures, cosmic mappings, South American textiles, hieroglyphics, and Indigenous symbols emerge in vivid, balanced color in Eamon…

Source Colossal   “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse” (2021), woven paper investiture from the scores of ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria’ by Claudio Monteverdi, 150 x 130 x 40 centimeters. All images © Catalina Swinburn, shared with permission “The cloak is a talisman from harm, keeping one safe and secure throughout transitions,” says Chilean artist Catalina Swinburn, whose…

Source artforum.com  Cuartor and art historian Manuel Segade has been announced as the next director of Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, The Art Newspaper reports. Segade, who holds a degree in art history