Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Hidden Details of “Still Life with Cheeses"

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Hidden Details of “Still Life with Cheeses"

Around 1615, Flemish artist Clara Peeters painted Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels. It's quite a striking work, albeit quite conventional even in its beauty. There is cheese, almonds, pr August 10, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: What Was the First Abstract Painting?

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: What Was the First Abstract Painting?

Abstract painting isn't something Juxtapoz was born with, so to speak. We have had to learn and lean in a bit. As a magazine founded on underground comix and outsider art, abstraction was more in a p August 03, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: How To Read a Painting

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: How To Read a Painting

There's always a story behind the story. We love reading a good book, but it's also fascinating to read about the author themselves, the era in which they wrote in, the ideas and historical events th July 27, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Incredible History of Edvard Munch’s "The Scream"

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Incredible History of Edvard Munch’s "The Scream"

There are just those iconic paintings that exist in the ether of collective knowledge. The kind of art you just recognize wherever you are in the world. Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's The Scream (1 July 25, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Nude Model's Contribution to Art History

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Nude Model's Contribution to Art History

The idea of the nude body is ingrained into art history. It's in the DNA of painting and sculpture. From Gauguin to Koak, Kyle Dunn to Danielle Mckinney, Picasso to Timothy Lai, we at Juxtapoz are ei July 20, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Art Collection of David Bowie

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Art Collection of David Bowie

There's a David Bowie for everybody. We like that line in this Sotheby's Institute short film "The Art Collection of David Bowie." Personally, we are a Berlin Trilogy kind of Bowie fan with a touch o July 13, 2024
Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Story of a 1937 Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo

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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby's Institute: The Story of a 1937 Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo

Juxtapoz loves a good portrait and the world loves a good selfie. For over 30 years we have put countless portraits, self-portraits and faces on the cover of our magazine, from collage to oil paintin July 13, 2024
Jux Saturday School: Jan Svankmajer's 1992 Short Film, "Food"

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Jux Saturday School: Jan Svankmajer's 1992 Short Film, "Food"

"Food is a 1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation. It examines the human relationship with food by show August 08, 2020
Jux Saturday School: "Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers"

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Jux Saturday School: "Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers"

It seems like, once again, sharing this documentary on Emory Douglas and the Black Panthers is too relevant. In so many ways, we wish we could share this footage as a historical document, not somethi May 29, 2020
Jux Saturday School: "Beastie Boys Story" Directed by Spike Jonze

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Jux Saturday School: "Beastie Boys Story" Directed by Spike Jonze

It’s amazing how three young men from NYC who created a frat anthem when inciting us to fight for our right to party are now remembered as the pivotal and intersectional group of underground arts c May 16, 2020
Jux Saturday School: The Time Salvador Dali Did a Alka Seltzer Commercial

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Jux Saturday School: The Time Salvador Dali Did a Alka Seltzer Commercial

May 11 is Salvador Dali's birthday, and its always interesting to take a look back at how the Spanish surrealist was not only a painting celebrity, but much like Warhol, crossed over into some (at ti May 12, 2020
Jux Saturday School: Looking Back at the Subway Drawings of Keith Haring

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Jux Saturday School: Looking Back at the Subway Drawings of Keith Haring

May 4th is the birthday of legendary artist and activist Keith Haring. This year, Keith would have been 62, which would still be such a young age for such a pivotal figure in street culture, graffiti May 09, 2020
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