As we have mentioned on the site in the past few months, ex-CIA agent, Hank O'Neal, just released a book through Siman Media Works, xCIA. The book and app is a collection of some of Hank's fantastic documentation of over 30 years of street art in NYC and abroad. To celebrate the book, app, and the upcoming election, Juxtapoz is sponsoring a Rock the Vote event at Lab Art in Los Angeles on November 2...

In this shot by S.H. Photo, models Miss Mosh and Kassandra Love engage in some pinup style sleepover fun. The retro vibe is carried throughout, from the styling to the Polaroid frame. S.H. Photo is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based photographer Sam Hernandez.

In conjunction with Bonhams Auction House holding their first United States Urban Art Auction on October 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, we sit down with Gareth Williams, who oversees Bonhams contemporary, urban, and modern design sales at the London-based auctioneers. From the Banksy effect to the pieces in the new Urban Art Auction, Mr Williams gives insight into the world of auction houses and contemporary art sales.

Tonight, Ocotber 19 at PRISM Gallery in Los Angeles, San Francisco-based Clare Rojas will be opening her second solo presentation at the gallery. Entitled Pith, this body of paintings signals a further exploration for Rojas, in respect to both subject and materiality. In this exhibition, we observe the artist’s concentration on abstract space and the blurring between architectural dimensionality and geometric flatness.

Multiple exposures, skewed angles and flowers are the ingredients for the hallucogenic atmosphere of Amanda Charchian's 'Rose Ascension' series. In her own words, 'I aim to investigate the state of alienation through realms of the physical, psycho-social and spiritual human condition.

Always one of our favorite artists, Juxtapoz featured artist Seonna Hong just opened a new solo show at LeBasse Projects in Los Angeles, featuring a few stylistic nuances that we are really excited to see. Persistence of Vision is Hong’s first solo exhibition with LeBasse Projects and first in Los Angeles in seven years.

The LA Fund and LAUSD have launched a public art project, “Art Matters,” in attempt to support funding for arts education in the Los Angeles school systems. Barbara Kruger (November 2010 cover artist), the conceptual/pop artist known for using black and white images overlaid with bold captions is working on the project.

The LA Fund and LAUSD have launched a public art project, “Art Matters,” in attempt to support funding for arts education in the Los Angeles school systems. Barbara Kruger, the conceptual/pop artist known for using black and white images overlaid with bold captions is working on the project.

Just opened at 101/Exhibit in Los Angeles, [sic] is a new series of large-scale works by Los Angeles based artist Jason Shawn Alexander. They are his most direct and personal paintings to date. The dramatic narratives that are a signature of his work are yielding to the intensity of the figure itself, to the portrait itself. Jason digs in with his brushes, giving these paintings richer textures and dimensionality than anything that’s come before.

Alex Strangler is a tattoo artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her traditional style tattoos are characterized by recurring eye imagery and tongue in cheek captions. You can find Strangler working out of Dolorosa Tattoo Co in Studio City.