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Spike #72 – Art and Crime

 - Spike #72
The Art & Crime issue.
Spike #72 puts the art world's money launderers, tax evaders, forgers, and brutes on trial. But it doesn't stop there. Inquisitiveness leads to bigger questions, like: Is "crime" only defined by its evil twin "justice?" Are our rights and wrongs only norms to be probed? How do we rewrite past injustices? But then, isn't rupture needed for change? Is acting outside the law the only way to dream of a better world?
Grab a copy of "Art & Crime" and dirty your mind with the liberty of villains, Russian high rollers, the metaphysics of shoplifting, prison literature, fashion crimes, psychopaths, and more.

Featuring: Asco, Darja Bajagic, James Bridle, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Sam Kriss, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Cady Noland, Brad Phillips, Tommaso Pincio & Francesco Tenaglia, Tobias Timm...
Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike (Spike Art Quarterly) is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.
 
published in June 2022
English edition
21,7 x 28 cm (softcover)
210 pages (color ill.)
 
15.00
 
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