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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Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018

Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018, All photos © Christian Werner

Everything So Democratic and Cool

The new book by Berlin based photographer Christian Werner

GINA BEAVERS “IN-N-OUT BURGER”, 2020

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Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm
All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “FUTURE SYSTEMS”

KAITLIN PHILLIPS, in the first post for her new monthly column,“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”, sees her life as a movie, a pretty boring one, with no outside.

RACHEL ROSE “UNTITLED”, 2020

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Rachel Rose, Autoscopic Egg , 2017. © Rachel Rose. Courtest of the artist, and Gavin Brown Enterprise's, New York/Rome. Photo: Lance Brewer

Rachel Rose, Autoscopic Egg, 2017; © Rachel Rose. Courtest of the artist, and Gavin Brown Enterprise’s, New York/Rome; Photo: Lance Brewer

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Bianca Heuser on Rachel Roses’s first solo exhibition in Germany, held at the Fridericianum in Kassel earlier this year.

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Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft , 1660-1661 Oil on Canvas. 96.5 cm × 115.7 cm

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, 1660-1661

Oil on Canvas. 96.5 cm × 115.7 cm

The Downward Spiral: Little Patch of Yellow Wall

DEAN KISSICK is in search of lost rays of the sun, in paintings. There is a certain kind of light, and it still seems to show on Proust, Vermeer, and kitties?

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Canova, Maddalena penitente , 1796 Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova – Palazoo Tursi

Canova, Maddalena penitente, 1796, Marble and gold plated bronze, 95 x 70 x 77 cm; © Musei di Strada Nuova, Genova

THE END IS NIGHT: ESCAPE GUILT

By Alison M. Gingeras and Jamieson Webster

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Q/A Rachel Rose

How painterly is your video work?

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Still from The Poseidon Adventure , 1972, 20th Century Fox, dir. Ronald Neame

Still from The Poseidon Adventure, 1972, 20th Century Fox, dir. Ronald Neame

Falling Out: Shipwrecked

Spike’s Senior Editor COLIN LANG’s weekly column “FALLING OUT”is hitting the rocks. Shipwrecks are on the dockett, and we don’t mean the Titanic film. 

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Anton Lehmden, Vogelflug , 2001, watercolor on paper, 30 × 42.6 cm

Anton Lehmden, Vogelflug, 2001, watercolor on paper, 30 × 42.6 cm

Falling Out: For the Birds

Spike’s Senior Editor COLIN LANG’s weekly column “FALLING OUT” is all about birds. Really. 

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Pandemic Content

Stay home, stay away, but stay online, for goodness sake. Digital communication has become more of a force than ever in the art world, without the usual galas, openings, and related events. JEPPE UGELVIG dishes the digital dirt. 

"Our identity could become an idol that we sculpt anew each morning from the digital clay"

The Downward Spiral: The Figure Cannot Hold