Issue 177 lands right in that mid-2010s Juxtapoz sweet spot—street culture, experimental sculpture, global travel, and a dash of big-name spectacle. It opens with Studio Time featuring Crystal Wagner in Harrisburg, where her massive, flowing installations turn paper and plastic into living organisms overtaking walls and ceilings. The Report offers a first look at the Asian Art Museum, followed by an event feature on Dan Baldwin’s London show, and then a gritty, grain-covered Picture Book from Swampy, bringing feral graffiti energy into the mix.
Matthew Gottschalk’s profile adds a dose of dark, sculptural surrealism, while Reigning Champ anchors the fashion pages with heavyweight minimalism. Influences focuses on The Thing Quarterly, the subscription-based art-object magazine that blurred the line between publishing and conceptual art.
The mid-issue features are stacked:
• Sever brings sharp, illustrative graffiti with political bite.
• Banksy’s Dismaland gets a major spread—photos, commentary, and that bleak British theme-park satire in full, miserable colour.
• Dan Gluibizzi contributes his soft, voyeuristic, pastel-soaked portraits.
• Crystal Wagner returns for a full-length feature, pushing deeper into the logic and material madness of her installations.
• Turf One closes the artist features with uncanny, old-world portraits infused with surreal twists.
The back half of the issue widens back out: Mike Shine reporting from Israel for Travel Insider, a look at Philly’s Mural Arts program in In Session, and book reviews to round out the reading list. Outside Lands 2015 gets an event recap, product picks follow, and a Sieben column titled “No Art Is Art” drops some brain-bending life philosophy. Pop Life closes with snapshots across the cultural landscape.
Sculptural, satirical, and street-driven—classic October Juxtapoz energy.
