{"product_id":"spike-issue-84-summer-2025-vulgarity","title":"SPIKE ISSUE 84 (Summer 2025): Vulgarity","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Summer 2025, Spike Art Magazine is getting freaky with the truest image of our time: Vulgarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing essays by critic \u003cstrong\u003eDean Kissick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon AI images as the new folk art and historian\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuinn Slobodian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon the roots of political shamelessness; definitions of “vulgarity” from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Self\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBruce LaBruce\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonna Schons\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCem A.\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaxwell Foley\u003c\/strong\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Baumann\u003c\/strong\u003e;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Gingeras \u0026amp; Alissa Bennett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003easking “Where Is All the Vulgar Art?”; Artist’s Favorites by political dominatrix\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReba Maybury\u003c\/strong\u003e; Francesco Tenaglia taking a whiff of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRob Pruitt\u003c\/strong\u003e’s 1998 installation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCocaine Buffet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e; Hans-Jürgen Hafner re-situating\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Mülheimer Freiheit – Neue wilde Bilder”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, 1985;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Hochuli\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003equerying “Why Are Politicians So Bad Today?”; a conversation between \u003cstrong\u003eR.I.P. 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