Book launch: GIVE MORE TAKE MORE by Roman Schramm

Spike is pleased to host the launch of

"GIVE MORE TAKE MORE"
A book of photographs by Roman Schramm
With a text by Zoë Lescaze and Dominikus Müller
read by Oliver Bulas and Juno Meinecke.

Vite Vite Verlag Hamburg

With drinks at the SYL bar until late

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Toshiki in the studio.

Carry On

Spike sat down with Japanese designer Toshiki to talk about the TOSHIKI x SPIKE Tote Bag collab, sustainability, and how totes are like dating apps.

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Betty Tomkins,  She is… , 2018,  Just a Pretty Face,  2019,  Women Don't Have Killer Instinct , 2019. Courtesy of the artist, P·P·O·W, New York and rodolphe janssen, Brussels. © Betty Tompkins

Betty Tomkins, She is…, 2018, Just a Pretty Face, 2019, Women Don't Have Killer Instinct, 2019. Courtesy of the artist, P·P·O·W, New York and rodolphe janssen, Brussels. © Betty Tompkins

50 years after they broke onto the scene with their bold representations of female pleasure, two American feminist pioneers, Betty Tomkins and Marilyn Minter, are finally honored with their first French solo shows.

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Yuri Pattison, "the engine", The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Photo by Louis Haugh.

Yuri Pattison, "the engine", The Douglas Hyde Gallery. Photo by Louis Haugh.

Inside the Engine Room

Killing time – it's not just a turn of phrase. The connection between state power, military force, and the measurement of time and space is more literal than we'd like to believe, observes Irish artist Yuri Pattison in his most recent show.

Discourse

A yoga class in the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in New York.

Out of State

As cinemas reopen and "immersive" art experiences flood New York with their competing ads, Natasha Stagg wonders if we've lost the plot. Is reality still our north star, or has it been eclipsed by a collective fiction?

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Bottega Veneta Issue 02. Cover by Patricia Doria.

Bottega Veneta Issue 02. Cover by Patricia Doria.

Issued for Approval

Ditching social media, Bottega Veneta goes rogue with a multimedia journal – a space for creative expression unbound by the pressures of the algorithmic feed.

Discourse

Paul Gauguin, Martinique Landscape, 1887

The Downward Spiral: Leave Society

Dean Kissick returns from his summer hiatus (ascetic, solitary research, perhaps?), restored and brimming with renewed hope. Eat vegetables, get Tao Lin-pilled, and revel in the beauty of the universe: the modern-day equivalent of "turn on, tune in, drop out"?

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Beau Brummell Social Club. Tucson, Arizona.

Beau Brummell Social Club. Tucson, Arizona.

Out of State

These days, you can monetize anything, or so the Internet has us believe. Natasha Stagg has a secret talent that might be profitable, if only she would stop giving it away for free.

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Rack City

The heat of summer is upon us – and thanks to New York's roving pop-up magazine shop Bye Bye Neighbor, you can laze in the sun and leaf through a publication in the great outdoors.

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Aleksandra Domanović, Things to Come (2014) (detail). Photo: Ugnius Gelguda

Aleksandra Domanović, Things to Come (2014) (detail). Photo: Ugnius Gelguda

Think Global, Act Local

Eva Scharrer visits Baltic Triennial 14, searching for a stable sense of place amidst the (art)world’s dizzying reopening. But has geography ever really been immutable, or is change the only constant?

Discourse

Photo: Natasha Stagg

Out of State

Even in a summer of change, some things remain the same. NATASHA STAGG’s column is back. This week, for the first installment, she observes that certain constants – like FOMO and self-delusion – are here to stay.

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Simone Fattal, The 99 Names (detail), 2020; all photos: Juan Saez

Davies's Locker

Colin Lang went to a concert, outside, featuring three artists playing music next to the work of another artist, Simone Fattal. Angels, sirens, and guitars, all inside of a bombed-out cloister.

"Talk remains cheap – which doesn’t mean we should buy it"

-Ella Plevin

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