“It’s mostly women who’ve dressed, not for dinner, but as dinner, from edible women bursting out of cardboard cakes to all those meat dresses by artists.” – j. walsh’s essay “Dressing for Dinner” is in Spike 83 – Food – OUT NOW! shop.spikeartmagazine.com/products/issue…

A dinner opening Klára Hosnedlová’s CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin served three courses, migration stories, and what one server called “a dystopia you can live in.” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/7-pm-…

#FutureDusk was widely predicted to be PANTONE’s color of 2025 – until it lost out to a very neutral brown. Read fashion columnist j. walsh on the troubles of an in-between color. Now online! spikeartmagazine.com/articles/theor…

For Spike Art Magazine food issue, I propose a theory: the RISE of foodie-ism, i.e. food/restaurants becoming a need-to-know category offering cultural cachet, can be directly attributed to the DECLINE of traditional haute culture forms—art, fashion, cinema etc (1/x)

is refik anadol the jeff koons of nfts?

Hungry for insights on the new foodie-ism? Then swing by Spike Berlin on Friday evening, 23 May, for readings from our spring issue, a screening of Věra Chytilová’s decadent Daisies, and the inauguration of our new showroom. See you there! spikeartmagazine.com/events/events-…

Read more of Amber Husain in Spike 83 – Food – OUT NOW! shop.spikeartmagazine.com/products/issue…

This week in Spike: how a museum becomes a global brand, a primer on fashion’s Lilacene, and strolling in Klára Hosnedlová’s apocalyptic rainforest. Out of the loop? Sign up for our newsletter! spikeartmagazine.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5f…

“Instead of visions for the future and the joys of experimentation, the need for cautious balance has emerged into a culture of fear, while aggressive, clannish narcissism is cultivated under the pretext of improving the world.” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/quest…

How does young love in Berlin look to Leif Randt? Join us at Spike Berlin this Saturday as he reads from “Allegro Pastell,” newly translated by Granta / Granta Books. Q&A with novelist John Holten to follow; please RSVP till 6 June. Janique Vigier spikeartmagazine.com/events/berlin-…

What do you do when the culture wars come for public art by zeroing out your grants? Throw another dinner. This month, Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ reports from benefits by Rose Art Museum Rhizome and Triple Canopy about the fallout at Nat'l Endow f/t Arts. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

While algos have been rapidly dumbing down visual culture, artists like Elonposting Daily, Joshua Citarella, and °✩ 🎀 𝒜𝓇𝓉 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝒹 🎀 ✩° have been evolving a new art form in an unlikely corner of Web 2.0: YouTube. A genealogy by Habib William Kherbek. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/essay…