The Spike Podcast

In Spike’s Spring 2026 issue, “Everything’s Computer,” we turned to a digital culture that feels newly unstable: no longer defined by the clean futurity of Net Art, the speculative cheerleading of Web3, or the already-tired mandala of generative AI, but something murkier, more communal, more occulted. Closing Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, the magazine brought together a roundtable at the Julia Stos...

In the debut conversation of The Spike Podcast, print columnist and novelist Tea Hacic-Vlahovic speaks to Travis Diehl, a New York-based critic and poet, about his exploits: from his monthly Spike column "Libra Season," to his book-length essay on Trump & poetry, "A Snake Whistles," and his take on Al. Or watch a video of their conversation on YouTube via Spike Art Magazine...

In Spike Art Magazine’s Summer 2024 issue, “The State of the Arts,” we invited Daniel Baumann, art historian, critic, and former longtime director of the Kunsthalle Zurich to write on a vocation that, it turned out, he believes is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. After the digital republication of his print article struck a chord online, the magazine brought together a roundtable at the Julia...

In Spike’s 20th-anniversary double issue, “The Post-Cool,” we asked several protagonists of Berlin culture if the city remained a world-leading center for contemporary art – or if Berlin as we knew it is really over. Much hand-wringing and many thinkpieces later, the magazine brought together a roundtable at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin in September 2025, to discuss what comes after “poor...