The Spike Podcast
The Spike Podcast makes sense of the chaos of contemporary aesthetic culture, from one of art and art criticism’s leading independent magazines. Expect pop, theory, critique, and the insights of madness from artists, writers, and other arts practitioners with strong views about the present and its place in history – we even promise to leave the arguments in.
Episodes
Tea Hačić-Vlahović & Travis Diehl: The Secrets of Success
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.
The Spike Roundtable: What Happened to the Curator?
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
The Spike Roundtable: Post-Cool Berlin?
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
