Art
and Culture Magazine
Monthly
Juxtapoz is a high quality glossy art
and culture magazine, produced monthly and around 100 pages in size. But don’t
let that fool you, it is unconventional, challenging, intelligent and above all
entertaining !
Every issue is packed with news,
reviews, artist profiles, features and more. Juxtapoz is a very comprehensive “art”
magazine with coverage of everything from the latest collectibles through to quirky
art, prints, fashion and so on. There are also specific special issue, for
example, September 2008 was the “New York City Graffiti Issue”.
The September 2008 “New York City Graffiti Issue” was a real
beauty, 150 pages in length and packed with content. The cover Seen designed
the newsstand cover, while KR or KRINK did a special piece for our subscriber
cover. There were features on Seen, Ket,
Freedom, Haze, Quik, Revolt, Ghost, Crash, Cycle, Lady Pink, and Tuff City
Tattoo (Yes 2, Med, and Ces), plus interviews with KR, Mare 139, West, Daze,
and Chino. Plus, there are profiles on Cope 2, SP.One, Claw Money, Jest, Erni,
Stay High 149, Noah, Pure, Ezo, Iz the Wiz, and Smith.
It is hard to define what the style of
Juxtapoz is, however, in my mind it fits into the category of pop surrealism.
It was founded by Robert Williams in 1994 and since then has proved a highly
successful formula and reaches a wide and diverse audience; it has also given
many major artists their first exposure including Mark Ryden. Juxtapoz has a
superbly unconventional approach to art. Tradition and Art establishment
conventions clearly do not apply here, Juxtapoz doesn’t print essays on the history
of art theory, old world painting or lists of America's top collectors - just
art and artists who matter, it is clearly at the cutting edge of modern art.
The quality of the publishing is top
notch which is important for an art magazine, the colours are clear and bright
and the look and the feel of the magazine is one would hope – cool, sophisticated
and eye-catching.
Subscriber issues also include special
edition covers and there are special
offers on subscriptions.