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
The Spike Roundtable: Everything’s Computer
In Spike’s Spring 2026 issue, “Everything’s Computer,” we turned to a digital culture that feels newly unstable: no longer defined by the clean futurity of Net Art, the speculative cheerleading of Web3, or the already-tired mandala of generative AI, but something murkier, more communal, more occulted. Closing Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, the magazine brought together a roundtable at the Julia Stos
The Spike Roundtable: What Happened to the Curator?
In Spike’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 Stoschek Foun
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: Post-Cool Berlin?
In Spike’s 20th anniversary double issue, “The Post-Cool,” we asked several of Berlin’s leading cultural figures if it remained a world-leading center for contemporary art – or if Berlin as we knew it is really over. Much hand wringing and many think pieces later, the magazine brought together a roundtable at the Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin in September 2025, to espy what new city is emerging
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