Jamie O'Shea Jamie O'Shea

 Having turned Juxtapoz into a generation and genre-defining art magazine during his ten years' tenure as editor-in-chief, Jamie O'Shea is working independently these days as a Creative Director. O'Shea continues to bring high-end projects to fruition. He's working with his creative partner Darren Romanelli to re-brand classic bands like the Beatles and his pals ZZ Top, and brokering sales for street-credible but gallery-averse artists like KAWS.
Now living in Los Angeles, O'Shea has not entirely given up the less remunerative struggles of being an editor. Post-Juxtapoz, O'Shea has just signed on as editor of Spread ArtCulture, a new quarterly art-and-design magazine from New York, and is lining up his myriad allies to start an art magazine of his own, in which all those careers he's launched in the last decade will be rubbing shoulders with their "official" art-world counterparts.

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IN THE NEWS///BACKSTREET TOKYO…
phofa - 7/17/2007
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The mainstream media continues to poke around the backstreets of Tokyo, this time with an aricle in Sunday’s NYTimes on some of the city’s newest hidden hotspots and a concierge service that will lead you there by the hand—for $84 an hour…

HIDDEN TOKYO
By Julia Chaplin; Source: NYTimes
To read the article in its entirety, click HERE

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Rockin out at Tokyo’s hipster hotspot LeBaron…

IT was the middle of the night as a Japanese skateboarder and concert promoter named Chris led me through Tokyo’s Shibuya district — a sort of futuristic Times Square — with its hyper-commercial vertical sprawl of glass office towers and flashing neon billboards advertising the latest cellphones and pop stars. We threaded past the sleeping shopping malls and shiny multiplexes, down a series of winding streets and through a (more…)

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