In April 2011, MOCA approached Juxtapoz with a unique project that they were producing with James Franco: Rebel, a mult-facitated, mixed-media, collaborative art installation and project loosely based on the making and legacy of James Dean's famed film, Rebel Without A Cause. In July 2011, Juxtapoz published a cover story examining Rebel, interviewing James Franco, Harmony Korine, and Aaron Young, about how the project came about.

Last July 2011, we did a cover story on Rebel, the experimental, multi-part art project fronted by James Franco including components by Harmony Korine, Aaron Young, Douglas Gordon, Paul McCarthy, and Ed Ruscha. After a few delays,  MOCA will present Rebel this May 15, and OHWOW will publish the accompanying book.

This month in Juxtapoz Magazine, we did a special report on the Rebel project, featuring Harmony Korine, James Franco, and Aaron Young. Rebel, an abstraction on the life of James Dean and history of Rebel Without A Cause, will premiere at the Venice Biennale this summer. Here is our interview excerpt with NYC-based Aaron Young.

Today, we are pleased to announce our July 2011 issue, featuring a full behind the scenes report and cover story on the making of the Harmony Korine, James Franco, Aaron Young, Ed Ruscha project, "Rebel," to premiere at the 2011 Venice Biennale this summer.

You might know Aaron Young as the artist who has made some very large-scale installation and canvas work using motorcylists and live performance pieces with tire treads. The Northern California-born, NYC-based artist just opened a new exhibition, Built Tough, this past weekend at Bortolami Gallery in NYC.