In conjunction with their very special June 2013 issue, Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA, Juxtapoz brings you excerpts from some their interviews with Beastie album cover artists from Polly Wog Stew to Hot Sauce Committee Part Two! We find the inside… Read More
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you will probably agree that Electric Lady Janelle Monae is the coolest sort of superdupermegastar we got right now and her latest video (featuring Erykah Badu, the other superdupermegastar all the boys… Read More
Fatima Al Qadiri is a New York-based Kuwaiti visual artist and composer. She has performed and exhibited at the Tate Modern (part of K48 Kontinuum), MoMA PS1, Gwangju Design Biennale, Art Dubai and The Third Line. Al Qadiri is a contributing editor at DIS Magazine… Read More
Grammy award winning US musician Will.I.Am was allowed into Paris’s Louvre museum at two in the morning to record part of a song entitled “Smile Mona Lisa” in front of the famed painting by Leonardo da Vinci, he told reporters in Paris on Wednesday. “That… Read More
Aida, one of the greatest operas ever written, and the opera house in Cairo in which it premiered. We have a new video to support this film project by David Krippendorff starring Hiam Abbass sent in by one Elizabeth Markevitch, founder of some art TV… Read More
This is the story of one of the greatest operas ever written, and the opera house in Cairo in which it premiered. When the famous Khedivial Opera House in Cairo was completely destroyed by fire in 1971, it was replaced by a three storey parking… Read More
“Gay Guerrilla” (1979) is a composition for four pianos by African-American composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990). He was among the first musicians to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music. He often gave his pieces titles with provocative political intent, such as Evil Nigger, Crazy… Read More
Broken Records is a documentary on the rise of Arab Hip-Hop, directed and produced by NU-Q juniors – Rana Khaled, Shannon Farhoud and Ashlene Ramadan. The documentary is about Arab Artists and their cultivation of western art into modern Arab culture. It’s about hip-hop and… Read More
The Museum of the Rapture was a site-specific installation by Douglas Coupland interrogating life and death and things in between. It was installed in the underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall as part of the Museum For The End Of The World at the… Read More
“Spectacle: The Music Video” is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the art and history of the music video. From early examples of music in film to the work of music video masters such as David Bowie and Madonna and contemporary artists such as The… Read More
