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Spike is an art magazine. Recently marking 20 years in print, this latest issue for Summer 2025 is themed ‘Vulgarity’: ‘Forget everything you think about bad taste; what offends these days is the escape from reality by those who can afford it… Deviancy has never belonged to the mighty alone. With today’s energy crackling in the liminal, raw material of the crowd, is a new folk art poised into being?’ Inside: Francesco Tenaglia looks back at Rob Pruitt’s interactive Cocaine Buffet from 1998; Dean Kissick interrogates ‘the unfiltered “slop” that is our new normal’; Hannah Black interviews controversial conceptual artist R.I.P Germain; Phillip Timischl blends the high with the low; and Phillipa Snow surveys Cinema of Transgression, 1980s New York’s answer to the ‘murderous status quo.’ On the Journal, about an earlier issue:‘I love Spike magazine. The quarterly art magazine has been published since 2004 by artist Rita Vitorelli and has just reached its 50th issue. It follows an idiosyncratic editorial direction – part of its strength is its refusal to follow the crowd, and the art mag shelf is a crammed one. It’s not easy to stand out, but Spike’s mix of written and visual essays brings a more curatorial than editorial approach. And the main reason it stands out is its design.’ READ MORE spikeartmagazine.com
