Exhibitions
Sandra Mujinga at the Stedelijk
In Amsterdam, a basement of post-human body doubles is less of a step forward for a savant of Afrofuturist world-building than a rehash her previous hits.
Exhibitions
Cassidy Toner at Kunstmuseum Basel
With tchotchke kitsch, jokey cartoons, and slapstick video, a satirist artist toys with ideas of belonging and success in the world’s oldest public art collection.
Exhibitions
“For Children” at Haus der Kunst
In Munich, a survey of contemporary art that treats kids as real audiences is colorfully hands-on and occasionally fraught.
Exhibitions
Porn After the End of History
At once titillating and encyclopedic, an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg revisits the collapse of European socialism through the image economy of sex.
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Spike’s Autumn 25 Issue – Nostalgia – is out now!
For Autumn 2025, Spike is cutting through the déjà vu aura around contemporary culture.
Featuring Jeppe Ugelvig’s essay on the art world’s uses and misuses of nostalgia; Simon Reynolds and Adina Glickstein talk exhausting the past; e-girl/theorist Alex Quicho critiques the end of newness; Artist’s Favorites by Diego Marcon; filmmaker Johan Grimonprez identifies with the hijacker in his documentary dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997); art historian Lynn Zelevansky on “New York/New Wave” at P.S.1 Contemporary (1981); Sean Monahan forecasts our old-fashioned future; image contributions by Megan Plunkett, Len Schweder, Cora Pongracz, Paul Niedermayer, and Ken Kagami; Martin Herbert’s portrait of kitsch-savant artist Friedrich Kunath; Aodhan Madden on Marc Kokopeli, Bedros Yeretzian, Flora Hauser, and Nicole-Antonia Spagnola making analog-ish art “under” the internet; cultural critic Rosanna McLaughlin on missing the white cube; ex-dealers Margaret Lee and Jeff Poe talk escaping the art game whole; Whitney Mallett on rebranding celebrity through book culture; artist Maja Bajevic’s Yugostalgic report from Sarajevo; Tea Hačić-Vlahović getting dewy-eyed catching up to her mother’s age; plus, reviews of exhibitions by Mark Leckey, Wolfgang Tillmans, Women’s History Museum, and more!