With Spike #70, we take on the blockchain – all its problems and possibilities, from NFTs to cooperative art-collecting to the encroaching spectre of flat-out finance. 

Not another article about Kyiv as the new Berlin! On the occasion of the Future Generation Art Prize, Alexander Scrimgeour wonders about how the twentieth-century phenomenon of international contemporary art changes under the pressure of good old-fashioned geopolitics.

At the Jakarta Biennale, critical engagement should be evaluated not only through the art on display, but through the invisible forces that permeate below the threshold of vision. How does air – and the control of its circulation – index the political condition of being alive?

With nostalgia taking hold at The New Museum Triennial and MoMA PS1’s survey of Greater New York, Dean Kissick wonders: what’s so great about it? When art gets sucked back into tradition, where is the future to be found?