In this issue

Juxtapoz is excited to announce our Fall 2023 Quarterly, featuring an exclusive interview and cover story with famed, influential Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami. This is Takashi's second cover with the magazine and his first since our museum collaboration, Juxtapoz x Superflat, opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2017.

We use the term “monster” a lot in popular culture, almost to a fault. There is a fascination with these terrors of such abnormal size because we can also relate to them. A monster isn’t so much a thing but a metaphor, an embodiment of something deep within ourselves and our imagination. Godzilla wasn’t just about a gigantic prehistoric lizard wreaking havoc on Tokyo; it was a story of the fear of nuclear war, or, what we as humans were capable of as monsters ourselves. And in the 21st century, the monster that terrorizes us isn’t so much the threat of war (although that is still rather pertinent these days), but the myriad radical shifts we have made through science and technology, things so unfathomable as to be greater than what we define as human. With that are new kinds of anxiety as we seek our role and our potential in what we call the universe. This is a reality that Takashi Murakami, through his artwork and own technology-based projects, has confronted. This fall, he opens Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People — Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego at the Asian Art Museum.

The Fall Quarterly isn’t so much about monsters but the ways in which we bend reality, contort the human form and redefine selfhood. Painters like Arjen and Peggy Kuiper elongate and enlarge the body in unimaginable ways. Taravat Talepasand, Genevieve Gaignard, and Zoé Blue M. create paintings and collages that reengage with the limits and endless possibilities of self-hood. You can’t help but think of the ghostlike composition of the figures in the paintings of Cinga Samson, almost religious and sensual, as he asks himself, “How do you paint beauty and terror?”

Danielle Roberts

Night Light.

10+ mins

Kezia Harrell

To Be Precious

9 mins

The Perez Brothers

Low and Slow, Mean and Clean

10+ mins

Zanele Muholi

The Bronze Age

7 mins

LOOK AT THIS

David Shrigley A Serious Man

10+ mins

Willehad Eilers

The Man They Call Wayne Horse

8 mins

The Crossroads

Sajeda Issa at UCLA's Department of Art's M.F.A.

2 mins

Los Angeles

On View Through the Eyes of a Local

7 mins

Jen White-Johnson

Mothering as Resistance

7 mins

Sabina Savage

Fairy Tales in Silk

7 mins

Mermaid Mayhem

Cissi Efraimsson Explains it All

5 mins

James Webb Space Telescope

The Secrets of the Universe Are Buried in Darkness

2 mins

Always Moving Forward

10 Years of Mirus Gallery

6 mins

Drawing Centered

A Six-Pack with Mel Kadel

2 mins

Giving

How the Art World Responds to Cancer

1 min

Troy Lamarr Chew II

The Visual Linguist

10+ mins

Laure Mary-Couégnias

The Allure of Twilight

10+ mins

Deborah Roberts

Smooth Spot

10+ mins

Henry Taylor

The Incredible Henry VIII

8 mins

Broken Fingaz

Utopian Collective

10+ mins

Emma Stern

Complex Gods

10 mins

Kehinde Wiley

Magic

10 mins

The Art of Reconnecting

Nuart Aberdeen's Hopeful Return

6 mins

The Embracing Space

Matthias Weischer is Builder of Light

7 mins

Alim Smith

Fire Under Pressure

6 mins

Jillian Evelyn

Connecting the Dots at Hashimoto Contemporary

5 mins

Salman Toor

From Pakistan with Love

10+ mins

Dustin Canalin More than a Game

More Than A Game

9 mins

Jocelyn Tsaih's Soft Focus

Glowing With the Flow

6 mins

SCAD Museum of Art

A Happy and Bountiful Ten-Year Anniversary

2 mins

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