Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Tania Franco Klein’s latest exhibition, Break in Case of Emergency (Flies, Forks, and Fires) at Rose Gallery, came by way of Klein’s fascination with ‘catharsis,’ a term hearkened by Aristotle, and an arguably vital component of a successful “poetic,” i.e. any human-produced representation of life that is outside…

Source Colossal   All images © Calvin Nicholls, shared with permission In exacting detail, a giraffe nuzzles its young and a panda noshes on eucalyptus fronds in Calvin Nicholls’s paper sculptures (previously). Working primarily in white and neutral-toned paper, his pieces capture the intricate details of animals’ musculature, fur, and feathers in meticulous cuts and creases.…

Source artforum.com  A Paris court last week ordered the Musée d’Orsay to return to the heirs of noted French dealer Ambroise Vollard four major works stolen during World War II, The Art Newspaper reports. Slated for

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Carol-Ann Michaelson creates ethereal abstract paintings with complex layers and surfaces. Enjoy her portfolio. The post Featured Artist Carol-Ann Michaelson appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It’s spring, so a splendid time to experience the sunny spirituality and science of The Transcendental Painting Group, whose early 20th century works are making a final stop at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in the exhibition, Another World: Transcendental Painting Group, 1938—1945. While painting…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It’s the Season of the Bear. The same named series about an Italian Beef Sandwich shop in Chicago and the Iranian movie No Bears are both steeped in interaction among families and neighborhoods, portraying joys and perils that we impose on ourselves—or are forced upon us. With…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “We’ve entered a new age of global crisis,” Cleon Peterson recently said in conjunction with his solo show, Under the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars at Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Gallery. “Modern dread, hopelessness, and existential anxiety have become common and relegated to the subconscious. The individual…

Source artforum.com  Mari Matsuda’s exhibition examines the history of labor organizing in Honolulu and the group of feminist, communist, Asian-American women who changed labor laws here during the 1940s. The artist, a