”The Vulgar Image is the true image of our time: the image of how we are corrupted and changed by images.” (Dean Kissick)
In a moment when moral offense refers less to the ass-scratching of uncultured commoners than the ruthelessness of our ruling classes – whether auctioning off public office via shitcoin or bombing all of Gaza’s hospitals – what possibilities are open to art to disclose new aesthetics, new sensations, new truths?
Spike’s print quarterly offers a soapbox to cultural critics and literary essayists to chronicle our time in thought. By turns pushy, poetic, and unexpected, it’s always visually splashy – and never shy to start an argument. Published by the artist Rita Vitorelli, Spike is one of the last independent art magazines.
