Billboard: SPIKE #83 – FOOD – IS OUT NOW!
Plamen Dejanoff x Spike at SPARK 2025

The artist presents the Trifon Ivanov Museum, an exhibition and book-form collection of more than 5000 memorabilia of the Bulgarian football icon, at Vienna’s springtime art fair.

Medardo Rosso at mumok

A Vienna retrospective of Rodin’s anarchistic “little brother” sites his tilted figure as a watershed moment in modern sculpture.

Amy Sillman at Kunstmuseum Bern

With a memory game’s slyness, the painter’s first institutional European survey springs her work free of its pigeonhole between abstraction and figuration.

“Post Human” at Jeffrey Deitch

In Los Angeles, a second take on a watershed exhibition underscores how little has changed aesthetically and conceptually since 1992.

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SPIKE #83 – FOOD – IS OUT NOW!

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation popups to bike deliveries of so many global cuisines. Our culture’s new A-listers are chefs, their restaurants no longer just stages for social performance, but works of total theater. How is this buffet of new ideas, techniques, and above all delicious images changing the flavor of art, which, going back to the cave paintings, has dealt with foods less digestible to our feeds – the slimy, the rotten, even the cannibal? In an era of shared plates when the camera eats first, can foodification even help art find its own umami? Our spring menu is seasonal, promise – there’s just one nature morte.

Featuring Healthy Boy Band, Aleksander Baron, Milena Büsch, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, Amber Husain, Whitney Mallett, Diane Severin Nguyen, Andrea Petrini, Steven Phillips-Horst, Torbjørn Rødland, Dieter Roth, Mika Rottenberg, Julian Schnabel, Michael Smith, Philippa Snow, Daniel Spoerri, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, Wendy’s Wok World, Lynn Zelevansky & so many more!

Paris Launch of Spike #83 – Food
By Spike Editorial Team

Join us on 3 April for a soirée at Lafayette Anticipations, where we’ll be launching our spring print issue, a line of fresh merch, and a new Mark Leckey edition. Four-day pop-up at La Librairie to fo...

We Are All Foodies Now
By Steven Phillips-Horst

At a moment when so many cultural forms seem to be in recession, the safest index for clout is knowing which gastropub makes the most photogenic vegan steak.

The New Delicious
By Aodhan Madden

Can words ever really capture the tang of sour milk? Torbjørn Rødland, Diane Severin Nguyen, and Yair Oelbaum are making photos that indulge the tongue’s less speakable pleasures.

Why Did Saturn Eat His Son?
By Philippa Snow

To metabolize his challenger’s power. Or was he just getting his rocks off?

The Head of JD Vance
By Travis Diehl

What happens when a political leader becomes meme? It proves that the shameless, mendacious behavior of the ruling class is part of their appeal. No number of memes can change that.

Going Out in Hong Kong 2025
By Eugenia Lai

Need a foot massage during Art Basel? Spike’s favorite Hongkonger has your spot – and so many tips besides on the city’s best dim sum, speakeasies, and cha chaang tengs.

SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2025
By Spike Editorial Team

The 4th edition of Vienna’s springtime art fair brings it unique concept back to the historic MARX HALLE, featuring 100 solo artistic presentations by 90 international galleries.

On Exclusivity
By Joanna Walsh

As fashion continuously cycles between excess and access, who are the industry’s real “insiders”?

Nan Goldin at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
By Pablo Larios

In a city she once considered a refuge but that now censors genocide, six dialectical slideshows chronicle the recovery of the beautiful from the ugliness underneath.

Do Not Comply With the Terms of Service
By Paul Feigelfeld

A leading European media theorist’s user guide to opting out of compliance with techno-totalitarianism; or, how to stop kidding yourself and finally quit Meta.

Anne Imhof’s “DOOM” Is No Match for the Fashion Machine
By Jeppe Ugelvig

On the rigged economy of making cool images and letting her audience shoot the editorial at Park Avenue Armory.

Calla Henkel, Why Did You Leave Berlin?
By Calla Henkel

After closing TV Bar, the artist went West to co-open LA’s New Theater Hollywood. The biggest surprise? How much she misses Berlin’s “cultural dentists.”

The 5 Best Films of Berlinale
By Rachel Pronger

Starring a trio of formally wild features, a long-overdue entry in the global trans film canon, and a flickering descent into colonial history.

Going Out In Madrid 2025
By Silvia Ortiz and Inés López-Quesada

Hungry for pintxos after ARCOmadrid? The founders of gallery Travesía Cuatro star their favorite snacks and libations as art world turns to spring.

Watching Swan Lake As the Post-War Order Collapses
By A.V. Marraccini

The New York City Ballet, once the pinnacle of US cultural prestige, offers relief from the terrible push notifications – until Odette throws herself off a cliff.

On Queerness as Realculture
By Travis Diehl

Amid right-wing sanitization of gender, art, and so much else, could homebrewed video games be the best refuge for the core strangeness of experience?

Babygirl Wears Its BDSM Like a Tote Bag
By Steven Warwick

Starring Nicole Kidman as a bored girlboss, Halina Reijn’s kink-lite fantasy begs the question: What does transgression even mean these days?

Death-Cleaning with Ann-Sofie Back
By james taylor-foster

Presenting her garment archive as a Stockholm funeral, the ex-fashion designer talked boredom, the end of pop culture, and why she’d never dress Rihanna.

Uncanny Humanity in Grand Theft Hamlet
By David Kobe

Sure, hijacking helicopters is cool – but can it also be tender? A new documentary shot entirely in GTA V reframes the hard work of being in Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy.

Lurking, Thrashing, Shapeshifting: Tanztage Berlin 2025

By Alice Heyward

Sophiensæle’s festival for emerging dancers met a recent public budget freeze with ass and drag, tentacles and devil horns – that is, in wild style.

On Mechanophilia; or Art’s Love of Cars
By Andrey Shental

From staging sleek self-drivers to junkyard scraps, recent theater, dance, and installation art have troubled a culture of treating machines like people.

Cristine Brache Is a Lucky Star
By Jon Leon

The artist’s new poetry volume, Goodnight Sweet Thing, is an elegy for starlet Dorothy Stratten and an ode to our most democratic artform.

Pattern Recognition
By Travis Diehl

Los Angeles is on fire – again. When disasters feel like AI text prompts, what can’t be predicted or replaced?

The Bus Is Leaving Without Us
By Lydia Eliza Trail

A flush, on-foot, rabbit-fur-coated tour around cOnDo LoNdOn 2025, an international gallery mixer where everyone seems like a twenty-something or a millionaire (or both).