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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!

Ivana Bašić Breaks Through to the Other Side
By Nikolai von Moltke

The Yugoslavian sculptor doesn’t make her otherworldly beings so much as let them into her life.

Mika Rottenberg at Kunst Haus Wien
By Ela Bittencourt

A Vienna video installation overflows with metaphors for the absurdities of global food chains.

Computes Will Not Replace Us
By Travis Diehl

A Bitcoin bar, a fake AI art show, a painfully sincere afterparty, and the ghost of Ireland – inside the delusional overlap of tech evangelism and Western decline.

Helmut Lang’s Open Mind and Closed Fist
By Juliana Halpert

The artist muses on the authenticity of instinct and what to do with works that are strong enough to fight back.

In Defense of Airplane Food
By Tea Hačić-Vlahović

“While you swallow bleached pasta, consider how close you are to death.”

“A Kind of Language” at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada
By Nolan Kelly

A Milan storyboard exhibition unfolds not only the secrets of many iconic films, but the story of cinema itself.

7pm in Hong Kong
By Geoffrey Mak

A son of the diaspora went looking for an education in modern Chinese art – and found both a buzzing market and a new feeling of being made whole.

Working Charli XCX Out On the Remix
By Matilda Lin Berke

What was last year’s mega-watt pop album brat really about? Smart marketing, of course – but also art-making in-progress, in public. A reflection on thinking past (acid-green) surfaces.

On Dressing in Dark Times
By Joanna Walsh

If no outfit is truly politically neutral, what does one wear for actual resistance?

Kosen Ohtsubo & Christian Koun Alborz Oldham at Kunstverein München
By Patrick Kurth

An exhibition equal parts vegetable, mineral, and photograph wagers that ikebana is less an outgrowth of one’s hands than of imagination.

Stephen Cheng on Ten Years of Empty Gallery
By Jaime Chu

The founder of Hong Kong art’s black cube extols sheltering artists from the system and the experimental drug called jet lag.

The Internet Enters Its Age of Aquarius
By Günseli Yalcinkaya

On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.

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 Many, Many Heads of JD Vance
By Travis Diehl

One leader’s memeification shows deceit is no longer just a tactic – it’s their shameless appeal.

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.

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.