If you happen to be in New York this week, and you happen to love Ed Ruscha (as we do here at Juxtapoz), then you are in luck. Assuming you may not have already seen this lovely solo-show by the California-based artist, the exhibition provides a breadth of new and older work from Ruscha, some adhering to his well known use of text and others venturing into more heavily visual works like the acrylic canvas painting Gilded, Marbled, and Foibled.

We have been anticipating the release of Sign Painters, a new book by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, since we first heard from our friends at New Bohemia Signs (Who are featured) of its production in 2010. Documenting many of the older and emerging hand-lettering fiends, this book accurately displays the beauty and passion of the craft. The book notes and we have seen for ourselves, that there has been a resurgence in traditional sign painting.

Part of the large group of exhibitions in California's Pacific Standard Time is Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary location. The show exhibits a variety of work from nearly 125 artists, including Ed Ruscha, Raymond Pettibon, Bruce Nauman, Rupert Garcia, among many others.

We just featured Australian fine artist, Jonathan Zawada in our August 2011 issue, and he is currently exhibiting in Sunset Etc at Prism Gallery in Los Angeles. The group exhibition features Leroy Grannis, Roy Lichtenstein, Matthew Porter, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Zawada.

A rite of passage in life is to read Jack Kerouac's seminal 1957 novel, On the Road. It is one of the last great American adventure stories. Ed Ruscha seems to feel the same way. Currently on exhibit at UCLA's HAMMER Museum, Ruscha has created an entirely new body of paintings and drawings that take their inspiration from passages in Kerouac’s novel.

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.