Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts artist book the list of suspects is

the list of suspects is depressingly long

moresynthetic fabrics

A journey that revealed abuse

It seems therefore strange

Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts artist book the list of suspects isA sense of major flux is spreading in the art world and not only among its pessimists. Under pressure from reactionary politics and its own now more than ever imperatives, so much in art is transforming: criticism into a flashy rubber stamp; art schools into trauma industries; fairs into 3D PDFs; museums into everything for everybody; and art making into a moral protocol. Some artists are responding by dropping out, going Web3, or protesting genocide;