Spike’s 20th-anniversary issue is undertaking an Archeology of the Present. What moments in art have actually mattered during the magazine’s lifetime, originating the moods and structures we see all around us today? Through the eyes of key cultural protagonists old and new in Berlin, Vienna, New York, and beyond, we’ll timeline recent art history, curious to know how the art world has been impacted by its logistical and digital globalization, which artists have broken in from creative fields like music, fashion, and design, and what is deepening our culture’s narrative crisis.

To top it all off, we’ll celebrate the launch of this double issue, the redesign of spikeartmagazine.com, and the full digitalization of our 80-volume archive with a packed run of events in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris – roundtabling by day, carousing by night, ever convinced that magazines can thrive by digging into the matter of now.

Want in on art-publishing history? Then join the party! Get in touch if you’d like to start a print subscription, place an ad, or stock copies of this special issue. 20 years only happens once!