Spike is a magazine for art and cultural criticism, mixing writing on themes urgent and forever unresolved, from “Web3” and “Vulnerability” to “Plants” and “Patriarchy.” Spike is visually splashy, by turns pushy, poetic, unexpected – and not shy to start an argument. Featuring literary luminaries like Nicolas Bourriaud, Jamieson Webster, Dean Kissick, McKenzie Wark, Joanna Walsh, and Jeppe Ugelvig, Spike has enjoyed a profound impact on art and its discourse in Europe and North America for two decades and counting. Founded in 2004 and still published by the artist Rita Vitorelli, Spike is one of the last remaining independent art magazines.

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For our Summer 2026 issue, amid SPIRITUALITY’s current resurgence, Spike asked: What are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? The answers are eclectic, emphatic, and most of all personal: an essay about the human voice’s part in the divine; portraits of mystic artists Lee “Scratch” Perry, Santiago Yahuarcani, and Natasha Tontey; a psychoanalytic look at Renaissance painting’s body of Christ; a spiritual history of perfumes; a soulful reading of America’s perhaps greatest living author, Joy Williams; queries of Gen Z’s search for God, the disappearance of atheism, and a new form of contemplation; and lifestyle recommendations to purge the soul, sometimes devilishly. Plus, some backpage words of wisdom: “Devotion and humiliation are holy.”

Feat. Johanna Hedva, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Isis Semaj-Hall, Santiago Yahuarcani & Miguel A. López, Natasha Tontey & Riar Rizaldi, Lamorna Ash, Steven Phillips-Horst, Aodhan Madden, Patrick McGraw, Joy Williams, Jamieson Webster, Shana Moulton, Fabian Schöneich, Mark Leckey & Martin McGeown, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nicolas Bourriaud, the memory of Koyo Kouoh, Jesus Christ, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, and more!