{"product_id":"spike-art-magazine-issue-86-salad-days","title":"Spike Art Magazine Issue 86, Salad Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpike #86 is turning to the wild season of youth – life’s Salad Days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForget all the Boomer panic about a generational crisis; the kids are alright, living out our hyperconnected present to its strangest limits. New kinds of aesthetics, of activism, of entrepreneurship; new images as much as new perspectives on what images are; and, above all, a new, very quantum attitude towards fact and fiction, history and the future: young people are modeling how to be in our very confused times – and producing some of the most interesting forms of culture we’ve ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing a Zoomer’s guide to the Slopgeneration; an essay of on being young at art in the Instagram age; a rundown of contemporary art’s nepo babies; reality checks on culture’s obsessions with youth and dying young; portraits of couture-sculptor Tenant of Culture, Turner Prize-nominated photographer Rene Matić, e-waste sculptor Brian Oakes, and Austrian painter Lukas Posch; send-ups of teenage fiction’s ecstatic weirdness and youth-quakers’ political promise; a critique from Silicon Valley of the industrialization of young risk-taking; art’s perfect Los Angeles metaphor; and a splash of back-page advice: “You shouldn’t be fun at twenty-one. You should be tortured.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Periodically.LA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45803416682632,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0668\/4793\/2552\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-12at11.49.40AM.png?v=1778612194","url":"https:\/\/pdly.la\/products\/spike-art-magazine-issue-86-salad-days","provider":"Periodically.LA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}