Lucian Freud was one of the most famed and talented painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His portraiture is unprecedented in its intensely psychological attention to detail . Currently on view until May 27th is a retrospective of his portraits spanning the majority of his career focusing on the various subjects that moved in and out of his work.

Good timing to have one of the most famous British artists in the world have a retrospective at the Tate Modern coinciding with the London Olympics. Damien Hirst will be exhibiting a retrospective at the Tate Modern beginning on April 4, 2012, and will be the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and will bring together key works from over twenty years.

While most of the Juxtapoz staff was back in NYC last night, a few of the team stayed back and headed to the very special Margaret Kilgallen retrospective, Summer/Selections, at Ratio 3 in San Francisco. It was a packed house, everyone honored to see the late artists breathtaking work.

The year 2010 was generous, at least commercially, for George Condo. The 5 album covers he created for Mr. Kanye West were extraordinary both in content and controversy, and after eyeing Condo's work for quite some time, we were thrilled to hear about his "Mental States" retrospective on display at New Museum in Manhattan starting next Wednesday, January 26. More after the jump . . .