Spike #85
216 x 280mm, 138 pages
Vienna, Austria & Berlin, Germany (English-language)
Quarterly
Published since 2004
Editor-in-chief: Rita Vitorelli
Art direction: Yvonne Zmarsly
Spike is a themed art magazine; this issue concerns ‘Nostalgia.’
‘If you feel like you’ve already seen it all, relax—you probably have. Every coner of culture is upcycling its archives at ever-faster tempos, betting that we won’t notice, of that we’ll pay up for ahit of airbrushed yesterday.’
Inside: Simon Reynolds discusses ‘fake nostalgia’ and endless futures; Rosanna McLaughlin asks, ‘Who misses the White Cube?;’ Whitney Mallett writes on rebranding celebrity through book culture.
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.’
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