Spike Art Magazine
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Run by the artist Rita Vitorelli, Spike is a contemporary art magazine, online platform, and event space. The flagship print magazine Spike is aimed at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. Essays by leading critics and curators are complemented by other formats offering room for polemics, meditations, and short answers to urgent questions. Spike offers its readers..
Spike Art Magazine
1w ago
A radical Minimalist talks seeing custom choppers in the lineage of readymades and feeling lost in a century where art has no limits ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
1w ago
A sixty-year survey including Eleanor Antin, Vaginal Davis, and Akeem Smith tracks recorded performance’s shift from antagonism to top-down media to ubiquity in the experience economy ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
1w ago
For half a century, the “sculptural” performance artist, now the subject of a MoMA retrospective, has used shards of myth and ritual to cut into history’s repetitions and the images they yield ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
1w ago
Hermès went leather, Balenciaga zen, Loewe anti-Pantone, and gremlins are in, and post-punk is lazy, and not all women are lesbians? A stylist logs her attacks of desire at Fashion Week 2024 ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
3w ago
Technoromanticism may find the sublime by devirtualizing online culture – or usher in an end-times of Gothic circuit board worship ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
3w ago
In memory of René Pollesch (1962–2024), a 2005 conversation with Olaf Nicolai distills the late Volksbühne director’s onstage commitment to affirming his collaborators’ lives in all their messy specif ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
3w ago
In New York, an exhibition of David Hammons, Faith Rinngold, and other Black arts luminaries enrolls strategies for asserting Blackness into public view or going entirely incognito ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
3w ago
In a one-man battle with Reddit, the hype cycle, and AI deepfakes over control over his output, the rapper is pushing his artistic identity to the breaking point ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
1M ago
Is luxury just a signifier of wealth, or can it exist without class? As with any fashion phenomenon, what appears like a matter of economy turns out to be a question of gender, too ..read more
Spike Art Magazine
1M ago
Between air-raid sirens, artists and curators in the Ukrainian capital buckle down in rewriting history, memorializing the right now, and prefiguring life after war ..read more