"It seemed like the unlikeliest of requests. In the summer of 2012, hip-hop collective Odd Future seized international attention across music and fashion publications, both for their brash attitude and a contemporary skate aesthetic, taking the world by storm. The last thing that would cross your mind was that Tyler, the Creator, the unrivaled leader of OF, would like to get in contact with Mark Ryden, the artists renowned for his Pop Surreal paintings..." - May 2013 Issue of Juxtapoz Magazine

An unlikely, but in our eyes, perfect match for an album cover. Mark Ryden, the multiple Juxtapoz cover artist and one of the most respected names in contemporary art, teamed up with, yes, Odd Future frontman Tyler the Creator for the cover artwork for his upcoming Wolf album. The album, out April 2nd, features a few different cover treatments, but the Ryden one is by far our favorite...

We recently stopped by LeBasse Projects for their newest exhibition, LA Mixtape. LA MiXTAPE documents the effect of music on the process of creation, asking each participating artist to create a piece titled after a song, artist, or band that has inspired or influenced his/her creative process.

This Saturday, March 24. Copro Gallery in Santa Monica will be opening our 18th Birthday exhibition, Juxtapoz Turns 18. This week, we will be doing teasing previews of the entire exhibition, and today we have works from Mike Giant, Mark Ryden, Kathy Schorr, Skinner, Dennis McNett, Niagara, and Tiffany Bozic.

If you had 10 hours to spare on a Friday in Miami, then the Art Basel centerpiece fair was where you would go. With Gagosian, Lisson, White Cube, Regen Projects, Blum & Poe, Roberts and Tilton, David Zwirner, Chelm & Read and hundreds of others all with booths at the Miami Convention Center, we took the mega tour.

Last night at the Soho Beach House in South Beach, Taschen through a party for the release of the very-limited, very special Mark Ryden book, Pixnit. Of course, there was a huge crowd, and a few glimpses later in the evening of the newest monograph.

Our December 2011 issue has arrived in our webstore, and we are giving you a preview of what we have inside. As you know by now, Mark Ryden is the cover artist, and his interview is followed by features on Mexican surrealists Pedro Friedeberg, Vienna-based illustrator Moussa Kone, graffiti artist Read More Books, NYC's Geoffrey Chadsey, fine artist Sarah Cain, and photographer Chase Jarvis.

We just got a little package in the mail today; our new December 2011 issue. Number 131 if you are counting at home. The cover; Mark Ryden, with a special cover story done in conjunction with Ryden's Taschen monograph and new body of work that will premiere in early 2012.

As we are in the works preparing our December 2011, it was brought to our attention that Mark Ryden will premiere a new painting, The Meat Shop, at Paul Kasmin's booth in London's Frieze Art Fair today, October 13. Anything with a Lincoln sitting as the butcher in a meat shop is great by us.

Cute, disturbing, and masterful all at once, LA-based artist Mark Ryden's work could be described as both kitsch and fine art. The soft glaze of his brush and the cherubic sweetness of his wide-eyed girls thinly veil a sinister and surreal undercurrent of anguish. Beautiful and elusive, Ryden's work fully embraces the mysteries of the soul and the dark underbelly of innocence.