JUXTAPOZ ISSUE 154 / NOVEMBER 2013

Issue 154 lands in that early-2010s Juxtapoz pocket—sharp, eclectic, pulled between street culture, illustration, and a deep respect for classic art giants. It opens with a contributor spotlight and short intro before dropping into The Report on David Hockney, a look at his ever-evolving practice and his embrace of digital tools late in his career. The Event section keeps things light, while the Picture Book feature sets the visual tone with atmospheric photography.

Design and fashion pages follow—clean, contemporary, and very “2013 Juxtapoz”—before Influences opens up into the big artist run.
The features are stacked:
• Finok, the Brazilian artist known for colourful geometric folk symbolism, graffiti lineage, and carnival-infused compositions.
• Hard Case Crime, the pulp-revival publishing imprint reviving noir cover art, femme-fatale aesthetics, and mid-century grit.
• Seungyea Park, bringing hyper-detailed, psychological portraiture—faces splitting, morphing, and filling with subconscious creatures.
• Tahiti Person, delivering dreamy, painterly surrealism with soft edges and narrative ambiguity.
• Eric Beltz (misprinted in the list but included), whose graphite drawings combine American folklore, quirky symbolism, and obsessive precision.
• Alex Kopps, blending surf culture, DIY aesthetics, and painterly coastal mysticism.

The back of the issue opens up into travel notes, “Beautiful Bits,” book reviews, a profile piece, and a style section before Sieben’s reliably sideways life column lands with humour and a wink. Pop Life scatters cultural fragments from around the map, and the final Perspective brings the issue home with a reflective closer.

A moody, varied, quietly stylish issue—classic late-2013 Juxtapoz.