Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts textiles Permanence has created a climate

Permanence has created a climate crisis

Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché

Phipps also contributes a compelling psychoanalytic text to the book

Introducing the book is seminal English designer Jasper Morrison

Constructed from pixels and data

Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts textiles Permanence has created a climateA sense of major flux is spreading in the art world and not only among its pessimists. Under pressure from reactionary politics and its own now more than ever imperatives, so much in art is transforming: criticism into a flashy rubber stamp; art schools into trauma industries; fairs into 3D PDFs; museums into everything for everybody; and art making into a moral protocol. Some artists are responding by dropping out, going Web3, or protesting genocide;