Spike #83

Spike is an art magazine. Recently marking 20 years in print, this latest issue is one for (or about?) the foodies, looking at how food—currently reigning supreme as social currency—impacts the art world:

‘How is this buffet of new ideas, techniques, and above all delicious images changing the flavour of art, which, going back to the cave paintings, has dealt with foods less digestible to our feeds—the slimy, the rotten, even the cannibal?’

Inside: a look back at Dieter Roth’s cheese-stuffed suitcases and Mike Smith’s fallout shelter snack bar from 1983; Philippa Snow unpacks Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son; Whitney Mallet interviews sexy artist trio Spiral Theory Test Kitchen; Julian Schabel’s paintings make for the ideal backdrop to NYC’s restaurants; and a history of crockery design.