Spike Art Magazine, Issue 84

For Summer 2025, Spike Art Magazine is getting freaky with the truest image of our time: Vulgarity.

In a moment when moral offense refers less to the ass-scratching of uncultured commoners than the rulelessness 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?