Author and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a bit of a renaissance man. He was the publisher of the brilliant and influential PictureBox for decades and was a champion of much of what Juxtapoz was founded on but took it to a whole new level of intricate historical research and creating a voice of record for so many artists who time wasn’t given them a needle to etch their name in the vinyl, so to speak. We are talking comic book legends, graphic novelists, outsider artists who might have created some of the most recognizable art of the 20th century that the history books hadn’t given the full retrospective for. And Dan was going to do…

A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper’s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen’s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As the gallery notes, “Whalen captures the complexities of human emotion across seven heads juxtaposed with assorted materials and form,” and much of what Whalen told me in our podcast was the absurdity of life and how sculpture should be, and can be, a vehicle to show this. Listen to the conversation below.—Evan Pricco

Shepard Fairey is dropping a new print today, Thursday, May 15 at 10am PST, with“DEI-TY” via ObeyGiant. The 2-colorway edition “critiques the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the U.S., directly referencing the Trump-era rollback of DEI programs. Fairey’s classic iconography, paired with this timely political message, feels like a continuation of his long-standing legacy of using art as protest.” 

Stolen Heirlooms is an exhibition by Japanese-Canadian artist Kellen Hatanaka that honours the legacy of his family’s experiences of incarceration during WWII. Recreating possessions lost to this injustice out of paper, wire, and washi tape, Hatanaka reconciles with the complicated and nuanced emotions communities displaced through loss experience including anger, unease and grief.

Entrance is excited to present Vessels of Experience, new sculpture by Pat McCarthy, his second exhibition at the gallery following Nik Nak’s City Cart in 2019, following years of collaboration with Entrance.