Q/A Tim Griffin

What happened to underground music in New York?
by Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin, Dan Graham

"What is the underground? The concept belongs to a time when composers like Philip Glass could rightly comment that reviewers refused to cross 14th Street." 

– This text appears in Spike #63. You can buy it in our online shop –

Tim Griffin
Underground
New York

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Installation View “what fruit it bears” December 4 – January 15, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin

Installation View “what fruit it bears”, Peres Projects, Berlin; front: Vojtech Kovarik, Laocoon, 2020, Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas, 220 x 200 cm 

New Fauves

“what fruit it bears” at Peres Projects, Berlin

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Patrick Panetta, Café Durban , 2020 HD Video and sound 00:04:05 Edition of 3

Patrick Panetta, Café Durban, 2020, HD Video and sound, 00:04:05 min.

Daata Art Fair

COLIN LANG spent a few hours at the Daata Art Fair and thinks you should too!

Discourse
Still from Ingmar Bergman,  The Seventh Seal , 1957

Still from Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal, 1957

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: 2020

DEAN KISSICK reviews a long year.

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All images, Stills from Flavio Mogherini, The Pyjama Girl Case, 1977 , 103 min. (Zodiac Produzioni)

All images, Stills from Flavio Mogherini, The Pyjama Girl Case, 1977, 103 min. (Zodiac Produzioni)

Falling Out: Yellow PJs

COLIN LANG’s on the trail of Gialli, the Italian mystery/horror b-genre that spawned classics like The Pyjama Girl Case (1977). Timely or not, it’s a riot.

Things we like
Coco Mademoiselle Perfume by Seth Bogart

Coco Mademoiselle Perfume, Ceramics by Seth Bogart

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE KAITLIN PHILLIPS HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month’s column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS’s forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all! 

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Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

Legacy Russell’s Glitch-y CyberSomatics, A Fourth Wave Feminist Manifesto

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Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

Folio of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise from the Dispersed Falnama (Book of Omens), ca. 1550. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC.

The Downward Spiral: Centrist Dad Ouroboros

A lot’s changed in New York since we last heard from Dean Kissick in October. A president was elected and fresh plywood added to store façades, quickly blanketed in new graffiti hearts. Hope and the 5G conspiracy are pretty tricky things.

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Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball , 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

Lorna Simpson, Woman on a Snowball, 2018. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy of the artist and Houser & Wirth; all images © Palazzo Grassi, photography Marco Cappelletti

“Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present” at Punta della Dogana, Venice

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Untitled , Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

Untitled, Hair, glue, 75 x 70 x 11 cm 

The Things We Leave Behind

Michael E. Smith at the Vienna Secession

People
Installation view “On Adornments“, 2020, Spike Berlin

Installation view “On Adornments“, 2020, Spike Berlin

Between Friends – Interview with Marian Ivan & Olga Temnikova

Spike Berlin has been host to a collaborative show between Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn. Before the final days of the group show, we spoke to the gallerists about the situation in their home countries, and how the show “On Adornments” came together.

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Philip Guston, Riding Around , 1969.

Philip Guston, Riding Around, 1969, Oil on canvas, 137 x 201 cm; Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Falling Out: There’s No Place Like America Today

There’s been a debate raging about the postponement of a massive Philip Guston retrospective at four different museums. So, naturally COLIN LANG has to throw his yarmulke into the ring.

"The 80s was the last period when low self-esteem was a normative response to authority"

Essay: The Last Great Era of Low Self-Esteem