Regardless of your love of sport, Nike’s visual and design impact is engrained in global consciousness. The Swoosh, the Jordan Jumpman, the commercials, the athletes and the pop icons who wear Nike all define a part of modern life. Published in conjunction with the fall 2024 landmark exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Nike: Form Follows Motion explores the design history of the brand, with unseen materials from the earliest years in the late 1960s, to drawings and prototypes, to the most contemporary designs with the likes of Virgil Abloh. At the heart of the catalog is how important design is for this particular brand, and as the…

Harman Projects is pleased to announce Liminality, the latest solo exhibition by Miles Johnston. Following his last exhibition over six years ago, this new body of work features drawings in graphite and ink as well as paintings in oil and watercolor, highlighting the artist’s eclectic range.

The beautiful part of graffiti is that it’s such an ephemeral art form; most of its greatest works only lasted days, if not hours. But the archives are rich, and what remains are historic and essential. ZEPHYR, one of the most influential graff artists of NYC, kept a scrapbook that would become pivotal to the history of the graffiti, and weighing 7 pounds with 243 full-color pages, ZEPHYR: Graffiti Blackbook/Scrapbook 1978 and Beyond is an exact reproduction of the most essential years of artistic discovery. “I’m hopeful that there is content here—historical and/or sentimental,” ZEPHYR says. More importantly, it’s the real thing.

Internationally known for his type-driven messages of social justice, equality, and Black power, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is both a poet and printer. For Amos, language functions as action, and he has spent a career making words move. Currently operating the letterpress print shop Kennedy Prints! in Detroit, Letterform Archive has just released this vital and timely monograph, Citizen Printer, with more than 800 reproductions representing the breadth of Kennedy’s letterpress works. At a time of global social and political upheavals and conflicts, an artist dedicated to making art accessible and available to all isn’t just an essential practice but one of the important acts of resistance we have.

Our friends at Drawn & Quarterly just released a very special installment (the third and final) of past Juxtapoz cover artist Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3, spanning the years 2002-2023. Ware has long been one of the most celebrated and influential comic and storytellers of his time, and this is a brilliant collection to see the genesis of his ideas and character development. 

A hook and ladder company, gravediggers and bingo enthusiasts are some of the eye-popping denizens truly celebrated by film director and photographer Neal Slavin in the expanded golden anniversary edition of When Two or More are Gathered Together. Years ago, his group portrait of a boy-scout troop, all shiny medals, reds and tans, faces freckled or milky white, inspired a life-long allegiance to color and a fascination with groups. “I want my work to affirm our self-identity within our public persona; to affirm the joy of being together rather than being apart.” My, how tribes have changed.

There doesn’t seem to be anything more 1984 than taking what was one of the most popular selling books of the 21st century and printing an alternative text upon its ashes. There is that wonderful moment in Orwell’s masterwork that reads “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

Many curious feelings arise from the photographs in Andrea Modica’s new book, Theatrum Equorum. They emerge slowly, and sometimes surprisingly, between intentionally repetitive images of horses lying in repose, resting on beds of shredded paper, enclosed by dark, and featureless walls. It isn’t a context where we are accustomed to seeing horses. They are supposed to be outdoors, in a field, trotting off into the sunset. Still lifes made up of crude-looking surgical tools, presumably used to operate on these majestical creatures are interspersed, sometimes arranged carefully, other times in scattered, bloody piles.

As the holidays approach, many of us are returning home or gathering with our families again. Maybe it’s friends that gather or maybe it’s solitude that awaits, either way, thoughts are drifting to a different sort of place, one a little further removed from the day-to-day of our lives. It has almost been three years since the first Covid lockdowns began, when our families, friends, and solitude were suddenly sitting in front of us, against the backdrop of a very different world. A lot has changed and very little has changed since then, but it seems like a good time to remind ourselves of what that shift was like, what…

We are asking more questions these days, aren’t we? As fractured as we all seem, as disjointed and uncertain the present and future may seem, we are beginning to have conversations about how we face ourselves, peers, family, society and our past. The pandemic reset many of our lives, but also put a new perspective on our identities and the existence of those around us. If this time didn’t change you or cause you to reflect, you really weren’t paying attention.