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Spoilt for choice by Berlin Art Week and Gallery Weekend Festival? Spike tabbed through the capital’s stacked exhibition schedule for what to see with fresh eyes in the coming days.
Got a pass to the festival but don’t know who to catch? Or need a reminder to finally buy in for a weekend? Spike’s editors crunched a bountifully overflowing program to pick out the acts they’re planning to lose their hearing and sleep for.
Phones from a dog’s eyes, knock-off poetry, and archives archives archives: Spike’s editors recommend four shows and one walking tour during Munich’s marquee art event “VARIOUS OTHERS.”
As Art World descends on the knee of the Rhine, gallerist Oskar Weiss dishes out the skinny on Basel’s best croissants, an anthroposophist, Gesamtkunstwerk, and which sweaty dancefloor is worth the queue.
Some movies are only worth seeing in theaters if you don’t have to pay for a ticket. Others merit repeated viewings. Here are Nolan Kelly’s tips on what to watch and how to watch it.
Scent, memory, and language all imperfectly conjure the moments we keep coming back to. Adina Glickstein writes about Rimbaud, a new fragrance from Celine.
Crypto-acolytes promise nothing short of utopia – but how do the realities of the NFT art market stand up to this enthusiasm? Domenico Quaranta takes these optimistic claims to task, all without losing sight of the promising potential that remains amidst the contradiction.
Ready to wade into tokenised waters, but feeilng overwhelmed by the big Open Sea? Let Spike be your guide: here are our favourite marketplaces, platforms, and protocols for cryptoart.
A weekend so nice, they held it twice. This year, Berlin’s galleries rallied for a second, autumnal edition of the exhibition series, with several outposts sharing a thematic focus on new discoveries. Spike editor Isabella Zamboni, a newly-minted Berlin transplant by way of Milan, honed her sense of direction by exploring Gallery Weekend 2021.
Ditching social media, Bottega Veneta goes rogue with a multimedia journal – a space for creative expression unbound by the pressures of the algorithmic feed.
The heat of summer is upon us – and thanks to New York's roving pop-up magazine shop Bye Bye Neighbor, you can laze in the sun and leaf through a publication in the great outdoors.
For this installment of Shoptalk, Spike sat down with Corina Reynolds, the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts, who aims to make hands-on experiences with book arts accessible to us all.
At Beijing Gallery Weekend, smaller off-spaces and well-established non-profit institutions like UCCA, M Woods, and Beijing Inside-Out alike showcased the enthusiasm, energy, and drive of this propitious endeavour.
They’re the front line workers of the art world, or something. In Spike’s new series, Shoptalk, we call book and magazine stores and publishers from around the world to see what they’re reading, thinking, stocking, and plotting. First up is Mariia Diakova and George Vyhranovskyi of Readellion, who play fairy-godparents to Kyiv’s budding art scene.
The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month’s column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS’s forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all!
Picked by Daniel Baumann, Harry Burke, Christian Egger, Aria Dean, Alison Gingeras, Dean Kissick, Alvin Li, Lisa Long, Ella Plevin, Dominikus Müller, Klaus Speidel, Natasha Stagg & Bettina Steinbrügge
A good lunch can be as hard to find as a great artwork. The gallery owner Gregor Staiger knows where to go. He recommends the best socialist breakfast, a very old restaurant, the paradessence of Swiss food and a few places to explore the very famous Badi (bathing) culture. Plus: he is also hosting a bar with the gallery's neighbours during the opening of Manifesta.
Gallery Weekend Berlin kicks off this Friday. Spike scoured the 54 participating galleries to bring you five exhibitions that we are looking forward to seeing.
Christopher Williams Reinigung Ursula Schweyen, Lindenstr. 34, Köln, February 17th, 2010 2010 Silver Gelatin Print 86 x 95 cm (gerahmt) Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln
Where's the best Kuchen in Cologne? Where does the art world convene after hours? Which museums are worth a visit? And where are Martin Kippenberger's old haunts? Temporary Gallery's Regina Barunke serves it to us straight with her insider-guide for your trip to Art Cologne.
Where are the best places to have Lunch and Dinner in LA? In which cocktail bar will you meet Kenneth Anger? Which beach has the best surf? Martha Kirszenbaum tells us where to go if you have some time off from Art Los Angeles Contemporary and Paramount Ranch this weekend.
