Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts reportage Fireflies Press is teaming up

Fireflies Press is teaming up with the festival to publish Whit Stillman: Not so long ago

and there I discovered the great works of Matisse

and cliffs eroding

tracing military style from the late 1960s to the early 1990s

that rebuild themselves and ruin

Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts reportage Fireflies Press is teaming upA 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;