Spike Art Magazine #85 Nostalgia

"Spike #85 Nostalgia For Fall 2025, Spike is getting to the bottom of the vintage aura around contemporary culture: Nostalgia. Are we doomed to ever-shorter cycles of cash-cow retromania, until AI memory-wipes us with pure simulation? Or is the root problem of our endless dj vu actually the expectation that art make it new, itself just so much nostalgia for a long-gone modernism? Were working out what the present owes to the past, if our goal is to conjure a better culture for tomorrow. Featuring Jeppe Ugelvigs essay on the art worlds uses and misuses of nostalgia; Simon Reynolds and Adina Glickstein talk exhausting the past; e-girl/theorist Alex Quicho critiques the end of newness; filmmaker Johan Grimonprez identifies with the hijacker in his dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997); a portrait of kitsch-savant painter Friedrich Kunath; cultural critic Rosanna McLaughlin on missing the white cube; Artists Favorites by Diego Marcon; ex-dealers Margaret Lee and Jeff Poe escape the art game; Whitney Mallett on rebranding celebrity through book culture; making analog-ish art under the internet with Marc Kokopeli, Bedros Yeretzian, Flora Hauser, and Nicole-Antonia Spagnola; Sean Monahan forecasts our old-fashioned future; art historian Lynn Zelevansky on New York/New Wave at P.S.1 Contemporary (1981); artist Maja Bajevics Yugostalgic report from Sarajevo; and Tea Hai-Vlahovi getting dewy-eyed catching up to her mothers age; plus, reviews of exhibitions by Mark Leckey, Wolfgang Tillmans, Womens History Museum, and more!"