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GeezerVison is showing spikeartmagazine.com — Spike Art Magazine  Spike Print Subscription Four glossy quarterlies delivered straight to your door From €88 Josh Smith, »Welcome to America«, 2024 Edition of 30 + 5 AP €1000 Gina Beavers, “In-N-Out Burger,” 2020 Edition of 30 + 5 AP €800 Seth Price »Zero Bow Mask«, 2021 Edition of 30 + 5 AP €1000  Spike #89 (Autumn 2026): All Is Full of Sound For our Autumn 2026 issue, Spike looks at the growing obsession with SOUND – from algorithmic earworms to immersive exhibitions and music made by machines – and asks: Why is something so elusive becoming our favorite way to set the mood? The answers are eclectic, vibrant, and sometimes dissonant: Aodhan Madden traces hyperpop’s sweet rise and sticky demise; Brian Droitcour diagnoses art’s age of “vibe”; Alex Quicho indulges the guilty pleasures of AI music. Avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson talks to Dan Fox; Travis Jeppesen enters the visceral audiovisual worlds of Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel; Isabella Zamboni listens for silence in paintings by Agnes Martin, R. H. Quaytman, and others; Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) on what sound does to the brain; DJ Courtesy on what art can learn from the club; Ville Haimala of Amnesia Scanner on the musical history of Myspace; Reece Cox on the best sound art LPs; a visual essay by Akeem Smith; and Steven Phillips-Horst decodes the synthetic future in sonic branding. Plus! A backpage audio diary from Tea Hačić-Vlahović. Rita Ackermann’s Favorite Music Videos By Rita AckermannSpike Lee for Michael Jackson, Paul Schrader for Bob Dylan, the first rap song in the history of the Hungarian People’s Republic – revolt is the watchword from a painter of impeccable cool. In PrintSpike #89 – All Is Full of Sound – Out Now!By Spike Editorial TeamFrom algorithmic earworms to machine-made music and immersive exhibitions, Spike’s Autumn 2026 issue asks why contemporary art is so obsessed with sound. InterviewHow to Reclaim the Present with Alessandro SbordoniBy Camila CardozoHas the apocalypse already happened? And, if so, is 21st-century pop culture, with all its nostalgia, just catching up? The author of Semiotics of the End goes looking for signs the future is not lost. MoviesLuca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” Can’t Live Up to the Hype of AIBy Nolan KellyOut of godly love or fear of a lawsuit, a new “biopic” of Sam Altman never gets close to the OpenAI CEO, while faithfully rendering a present where it’s anybody’s guess what comes next. Views“Red Flags”: steirischer herbst ’26By Miriam StoneyUnder growing reactionary threat, the Graz art festival seems willing to risk contradiction, ambiguity, even productive misunderstanding – but not yet the tenets of the “avant-garde.” InterviewLauren Greenfield’s Empathy MachineBy Ela BittencourtAt Fotografiska Berlin, an immersion in teen image-making brings the algorithmic feed to light – and finds, among all the put-ons, peer pressure, and propaganda, the youth are talking straight. User ErrorThe Eternal September of TasteBy Adina GlicksteinUser Error is back! From the opening of Hauser & Wirth Palo Alto, Spike’s tech columnist runs the numbers on art’s relationship to tasteslop and Silicon Valley’s word of the year. ArchitectureWorld’s Largest Dingbat Lands at LACMA By Matt ShawDesigned by Peter Zumthor, the new Geffen Galleries mirror back the bombast and beauty of urban Los Angeles, even as the museum’s first collection rehang attests that architecture alone can’t reorgani... Libra SeasonWhat Criticism Can DoBy Travis DiehlIn his final monthly dispatch for Spike, Travis Diehl asks what criticism is good for – and finds answers among dead rats, shuttered restaurants, and September openings in New York. DesignAlone, Together: The Atmospheric Design of Matière Noire By Andrew PasquierWith recent commissions from Arca, Basel Social Club, and the Skrillex-led festival CONTRA, the Paris studio of Pierre Dagba and Felix Ward is reminding culture that space is everything we can’t see. InterviewEartheater: Why Beauty Makes You Pull a Gross FaceBy Hiroyoshi TomiteFresh off touring her newest record, the avant-pop musician counts her blessings: the amnesia of powerful feelings, her newest artistic obsession, and that songs will outlive us all. 7pm7pm in CologneBy Pierre-Alexandre MateosA week in Cologne among leather relics, Fassbinder ghosts, museum directors, queer courts, and potato chips on pizza. Institutional critique turns camp; dignity lasts about an hour. Going OutGoing Out in BerlinBy Hans Krestel & Rafael SergiBerlin Art Week is a feast for the eyes. But what about the mouth, the ears – and shaking ass? Get the menu from the most fashionable comms girlies around town. ViewsArthur Jafa & Richard Prince at Fondazione PradaBy Luca AvigoCurated by Nancy Spector, a Venice exhibition poses rhymes of form and theme between two giants of appropriation art – and where their lines break into very different politics. InterviewCamera-Kissing and Knee-Peeing with Shin HanagataBy Kieran Press-ReynoldsDebuting in Europe at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, the Japanese artist’s experiment in twisting free of the system begins by seeing it from our armpits, hips, toes. Libra SeasonThe Art World Needs Better FightsBy Travis DiehlWhat can professional wrestling teach contemporary art? A ringside look at an art world that has lost the shared purpose, if not the antagonism, that made aesthetic conflict matter. TheaterAll of Berlin in One PoolBy Hilka DirksThe Volksbühne opened it’s 2026/27 season with a free swimming pool. As much as it’s made truly public culture, the Volksbad reflects that contemporary politics can’t escape theater. EssaySeeking Quiet at the Venice BiennaleBy Aodhan MaddenAt a Biennale that doubles as a memorial to Koyo Kouoh, Henrike Naumann, and others, a Spike contributing editor stops to ask: what is art’s task in a world that deserves evermore mourning? Views“Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness” at Pace Gallery, BerlinBy Susan FinlayTaking its name from Françoise Sagan’s 1954 Riviera novel, an exhibition anchored by painter Friedrich Kunath’s studio bar is moody, languid, a bit of a hot mess – that is, incomparably summer. BooksBooks for Late Summer NightsBy Isabella ZamboniFor those rare hours, a Spike editor picks four fictions to be absorbed, moved, disturbed, and intoxicated by; plus a lucid and equally heady history of quantum physics. In PrintSpike #88 – Spirituality – Out Now!By Spike Editorial TeamAmid the latest revival of SPIRITUALITY in culture, Spike’s Summer 2026 issue asks: what are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? Libra SeasonHow to Win the War on Men: Turn Your Guns AroundBy Travis DiehlWhat if this year’s great epic isn’t The Odyssey, but Jackass? An unlikely reading of two very different spectacles of alliance, war, and masculinity – from selfish heroics to gonzo brotherhood. ViewsCarlos Motta at OK LinzBy Christian EggerAn exhibition deft at queering language, images, and other archives locates, but never quite settles, the thorny problem of holding open meaning. RoundupOn the Goth and the Pop: Zurich’s Best Summer ExhibitionsBy Brit BartonArt materials odd and fabulous abound after Zurich Art Weekend, from moose hide and paint waste to liquid latex and Fabergé eggs. InterviewBruce Gilden Is Still in the ArenaBy Danielle EzzoWith an exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin, an iconic and icon-making photographer considers the empathy of confrontational images and why making his best work is like street-fighting. Views“The Lure of the Image” at C|O BerlinBy Morgane BilluartIn an era of internet click baits, rug pulls, and thirst traps, a Berlin exhibition locates the “reality” of digital images not in their representation, but their seduction. PerformanceFlorentina Holzinger’s “Pfingstspiel”By Lewon HeubleinNuder, bloodier, and more bombastically stunty than ever, the Austrian choreographer’s latest toasts the body’s inexhaustible surprise and the backstage of spectacular images. Libra SeasonThe Abstraction of Everything, Everywhere, All at OnceBy Travis DiehlFrom an AI-vision conference and chalk-art velociraptors, to Dataland and an Ab-Ex museum, a trip to the American West asks what escapes the logic of abstraction. EssayAll Images Are Quite Useless NowBy Gideon JacobsAI has pushed the medium of modernity to a breaking point. Perhaps a necessary one, if we are ever to escape back to reality’s unstable, infinite, and unknowable ground. InterviewDesktop Sublime: Alexandre EstrelaBy Clara DrummondAt the 61st Venice Biennale, Alexandre Estrela discusses the origins of Apple wallpaper in “unspoiled” nature and why he turned the Portuguese Pavilion into a live seismograph. InterviewThere Is No Such Thing as Silence: Brognon RollinBy Max DaxAt the Konschthal Esch group show “état bruit” (state of noise), the artist duo marks its 20th anniversary with two jukeboxes stocked with modern life’s quietest griefs. Libra SeasonInstitutions Are Tired – So Is Institutional CritiqueBy Travis DiehlIn an age of financial panic and collapsing support systems, artists are turning transactions into art. Is it radical honesty, or total resignation? Interview33 Things I Hate About Your Art BandBy Andrew PasquierBilly Bultheel, Alexander Iezzi, Ivan Cheng, and Cem Dukkha share the secret of their noisy, strobing, transcendent new album: cringe will set you free. Premiering the live video collab of “F**k U” 7pm7pm in HelsinkiBy Mathias KristiansenYear two of Helsinki Music Week showed that, if subculture is dead, it’s places like the Finnish capital that will resurrect DIY/punk – albeit in the key of neo-EDM. ArchitectureThe New Museum Enters the Zyn EraBy Matt ShawWhere the iconic 2007 building mirrored a techno-optimist, post-internet culture, the institution’s latest expansion, by OMA, is a fitting home for digital art after the Great Weirding. User ErrorNever MidcurveBy Adina GlicksteinBeeple got a show at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, and protocol art a Venice palazzo. What’s the difference between slopulism and theory in an art world endlessly troubled by novel technology? 7pm7pm in BerlinBy Cem A.The artist behind @freeze_magazine takes in the thrills and spills of a too-sunny Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026. Plus! a ranking of the best gardens for an apero. MoviesDouglas Gordon by Douglas GordonBy George MacBethIn a new biopic set entirely in his studio, the archetypal Berlin artist plays both subject and saboteur. Is it a canny revival via self-exposure – or the last refuge of myth of the solitary genius? EssayShitpostmodernism: Understanding the SlopgenerationBy Kieran Press-ReynoldsKids these days: how are they keeping on, as hypermediation threatens to glitch out the future? As it turns out, by doing what youth has always done: finding profound meaning in the most unexpected pl... User ErrorHead B*tch in ChargeBy Adina GlicksteinEvery Tom, Dick, and Harry in Silicon Valley is using AI agents these days – so why can’t a reformed e-girl indulge a little productivitymaxxing? Libra SeasonWhy Contemporary Art Can’t LastBy Travis DiehlContemporary art can tear down symbols, but it rarely rivals the beliefs that built them. Can an art of the now speak beyond the present? Interview“Listen to Designers, Who Are Paving the Way to the Future”: Lilli Hollein By Klaus SpeidelUnder her direction since 2021, living up to first principles at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts, colloquially the MAK, begins with knowing where the present is. Interview“Once You Hit Export on the PDF, That’s It”: Richard TurleyBy Biz SherbertThe designer behind Civilization, the new-look Interview, and the rollout of Rosalía’s latest album on the state of images and the untiring (ir)reason of magazines. User ErrorNo AgencyBy Adina GlicksteinThe rise of AI agents like OpenClaw promises to make CEOs of us all. But at what cost? When Bots Watch Themselves By Christopher WebbWhat can non-human performance art tell us about Moltbook, the much-hyped, Reddit-like forum for AI agents? That there’s an update underway to spectatorship’s terms and conditions. Interview“Why Have We Allowed Things to Get So Far Out of Hand?”: Julius von BismarckBy Christian EggerIf humanity can’t see a shrink about the climate crisis, what can art offer in shaking us awake? An artist known for deeply troubling what constitutes “Nature” muses from the KunstHausWien. Libra SeasonBecome Meme or DieBy Travis DiehlLooksmaxxers, Muskism, and the memetic fantasy of domination. A dispatch on virality – and on how art can spread otherwise. Artist TalkDavid Claerbout Doesn’t Believe in the Arrow of TimeBy Julieta ArandaAt a playful exhibition at Konschthal Esch, Luxembourg, the new media artist calls for letting meaning grow slowly in the viewer – and teases the notion of collecting a video 1000 years long. ViewsThose Torsos of ApolloBy Patricia GrzonkaReimagining one’s gay self in pattern mash-ups from Op Art and AbEx to graffiti, Richard Hawkins’s Kunsthalle Wien exhibition frames painting as freedom quest – and an earthly pleasure besides. User ErrorCasino BanalBy Adina GlicksteinIt’s boom times for prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, where anyone can bet on just about anything. So, which has the better odds in our hyper-speculative present – hope, or hopelessness? |
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