Wander on over to the Laguna Art Museum for “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor” (through October 5, 2008)
Including the work of 150 artists, the show revolves around the idea that there’s been a huge (but unacknowledged) art movement taking place in the US for the last 40 years. Since 1994, this arsenal of “lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, narrative” art has found a home in the pages of San Francisco’s Juxtapoz magazine — the most widely read US art magazine and an influencing force on the younger generations, who are now heading to art schools in unprecedented numbers.