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Spike inaugurates a new format, where galleries, curators, and art are judged by glyphs, through 18 categories that would be equally at home in gourmet guides, aesthetic treatises, or poetry.
The first installment of Spike’s new criticitism format Five-Star Review is a roundup of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022. Here we judge Joan Joans at Heidi Gallery.
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written Spike’s society column, “Gesellschaft am Ende”, since the summer of 2021. It’s time it gets from the paper to the World Wide Web. We start from the start, Spike #68.
Gideon Jacobs shares an original meditative method of achieving salvation – transcending this physical form, with all its irksome ailments, plus the charlatans and metaverses that promise to cure them.
R.U. Sirius, who shaped digital culture since its inception, dishes to Lydia Sviatoslavsky about (what’s left of) cyberpunk, stoner-inflected French theory, and the drab cruelty of American politics.
Robert Lettner, Untitled (from the series “Kalte Strahlung”), 1972, acrylic on canvas, 160 × 188 cm; Courtesy Wonnerth Dejaco and Archiv Robert Lettner; Photo: Peter Mochi
Scientist-turned-artist Libby Heaney speaks about what quantum means, how it can be made more accessible, and the feminist possibilities that its essential plurality unleashes.
Jaime Chu examines citizenship, empire, and belonging through the lens of Jenna Bliss’s video art for the April edition of Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks.
Violent videos fill up art shows, TikTok feeds, and telegram chats. This month, Dean Kissick wonders: how do we reckon with the chilling fog of content?