Our friends at Drawn & Quarterly just released a very special installment (the third and final) of past Juxtapoz cover artist Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3, spanning the years 2002-2023. Ware has long been one of the most celebrated and influential comic and storytellers of his time, and this is a brilliant collection to see the genesis of his ideas and character development. 

DesignerCon (DCon), the world’s premiere art, design and collectibles megashow, announced today it will expand its presence in Las Vegas this November, bringing a series of exclusive after-parties, immersive experiences, and special access privileges to an estimated 70,000 DesignerCon attendees. DCon has partnered with Superplastic’s Dopeameme Institute for Pleasure Research, Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart, and Tao Group Hospitality to provide supplemental entertainment and nightlife opportunities to attendees. DCon 2024 takes place at The Expo at World Market Center and makes its Las Vegas debut November 15-17.

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by David Byrd (1926 – 2013) coinciding with the release of Volume 1 of the late American artist’s catalogue raisonné. Occupying the third floor gallery, this presentation aims to illuminate the interconnections between Byrd’s paintings, drawings, and assemblage sculptures, and provide a glimpse into his creative process. Special attention is paid to the portraits Byrd sketched on notepaper while on the job and painted years later, of the men and women at the Veterans’ Affairs hospital in Montrose, NY, where he worked as an orderly from 1958 – 1988. The exhibition also includes paintings of the landscapes he passed on his daily commute to and from work, and scenes of small town life in Sidney Center where he would…

There is something so comforting about a HUSKMITNAVN show at V1 Gallery. Not that the work is comfortable, but that you know HUSKMITNAVN will paint about domestic life in a way that feels relatable, or create a collective sense of anxiety and humor in his illustrations. It’s comforting because you know he has an eye out for us, he’s paying attention, he gets it, he gets what is going on at home. He has always had an empathetic eye, and in A New Day, that understanding of the mundane being profound is ever so apparent. As the gallery notes, “There is a joyful defiance in A New Day, a sort of call to arms to appreciate and celebrate our daily lives. If…

Lots going on in London right now, and in mural news, Shepard Fairey teamed with Migrate Art to create a new work, Rise Above Earth Justice, painted at Anlaby House, Boundary Street, Shoreditch. The project was funded by the Ford Foundation with the support of Ambassador Jane Hartley of the U.S. Embassy in London, and produced by Migrate Art, Charlotte Pyatt and Simon Butler. 

One of the greatest contributions to the art lexicon is treating street art as an active tool in understanding how we use and view public space. It has always been insufficient to simply label it as “street art” or “graffiti” and neglect the broader context in which it can be appreciated on both micro and macro levels. Nuart and the Nuart Festival, alongside curator Martyn Reed from his home base in Stavanger, Norway, have long been interested in how public space is used, who has access to it, and how art can fit into our daily lives in ways that expand our experiences and understanding of the cities we inhabit. It becomes apparent to anyone who has organized a public…

No doubt, there are a lot of mural festivals; in fact, too many, if you ask me. When the senior center starts taking field trips to see cool new graffiti on the walls of your town’s “old town,” the coolness factor of the mural festival has lost much of its… coolness. With the idea generally being to shine a light on your city via large scale art, once a few dozen walls are covered, what’s really left to do? Enter Blink Cincinnati. Instead of taking over a neighborhood and painting some Instagrammable photo-op backdrops, they decided that 40 continuous blocks and a city-wide visual, experiential showcase spanning two states well into the night is the way to make a statement.…

It’s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul Cézanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer Félix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed “The Exhibition of the Impressionists” — a jab at Monet’s “Impression: soleil levant,” the painter’s dreamlike depiction of the port city of Le Havre.

The master of sinister fun, Joan Cornellà has teamed with AllRightsReserved for a new vinyl sculpture, “Yogawork,” available on October 3rd at 12am EDT. The hair part features a thermochromic color-changing finish, which addds to the Cornella brand of comedy and satire. Releasing this week exclusively at DDTStore.com.

A hook and ladder company, gravediggers and bingo enthusiasts are some of the eye-popping denizens truly celebrated by film director and photographer Neal Slavin in the expanded golden anniversary edition of When Two or More are Gathered Together. Years ago, his group portrait of a boy-scout troop, all shiny medals, reds and tans, faces freckled or milky white, inspired a life-long allegiance to color and a fascination with groups. “I want my work to affirm our self-identity within our public persona; to affirm the joy of being together rather than being apart.” My, how tribes have changed.