What is a nice art tradition here in San Francisco since 1967, the SFMoMA just announced that Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton are the 2010 artists for its biennial SECA Art Award. For those who don't know, "Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement o f Contemporary Art), one of the museum's auxiliaries, the signature award honors Bay Area artists who are working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not yet received substantial recognition." More after the jump . ..

Cover artist and participating Detroit artist RETNA has a new video on LA Forward that shows him giving a tour of his mural in downtown LA that he painted with Mac based on a photograph by Estevan Oriol. What was supposed to be informative turns a tad confrontational as a man near the mural starting shouting at the film crew and Retna. Watch after the jump . . .

Ever since we profiled Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis in the magazine, people have been telling us that they really like the work. We were caught by how grand his building-sized pieces were, part of that great generation of European street artists who are really capturing size and scale. Alexandros just created a fantastic short video, "Study For a Riot," based on the recent riots in Athens and the rest of Greece. Video after the jump . . .

San Francisco's Church and Steak, a film collective started by Josh Lowman and Rinee Shah, just directed this interesting animated music video for Benoit Pioulard's new song "Lasted." Sure, the song is cool, but the video is what we are here for. More information, and video, after the jump . . .

Brazilian collage artist and musician Sesper just created a video of his works he will have in Graffiti Gone Global's Art Basel exhibition/event, Fresh Produce. The roster for Produce is quite deep, with many Juxtapoz alumnists in the line-up, including Sepser, Herbert Baglione, REVOK, Alexone, Kofie, Escif, and Reyes. More information after the jump . . .

As everyone knows by now, Michel Gondry has wrapped up directing The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen, and that a trailer has been out for quite some time. What people may not know is that we just wrapped our exclusive Michel Gondry interview for an upcoming issue of Juxtapoz, and all this Hornet talk made us want to revisit the trailer. So, after the jump . . .

After a highly successful run at the LACMA, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty moves on to The Met in New York. This is the first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to survey the work of this legendary American artist, widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art.

El Mac (Juxtapoz #103) joins Viet Nam The World in Singapore and doesn't get taken away by Singaporean police for public artwork.

Whether you’re religious or not, there remains a special sort of serenity and mysticism within a monastery – especially when its an ancient abandoned one in Southern Italy. This monastery is one of the most fascinating uncurated public art spaces, which serves as the epicenter of FAME Fest.

“Nothing really scares me, so what is the scariest shit ever? A woman I guess; a woman is the scariest thing ever.” Venture into the midst of the quiet, dark night with David Choe (Juxtapoz #112) as he paints his own unique, carnal vision of hell.