Spike Art Magazine #88

Spike Art Magazine #88 explores spirituality's resurgence in contemporary culture, asking what draws people beyond the measurable. This Summer 2026 issue features Johanna Hedva on the divine voice, portraits of mystic artists Lee "Scratch" Perry, Natasha Tontey, and Santiago Yahuarcani, Jamieson Webster's psychoanalytic reading of Renaissance Christ imagery, and Élisabeth de Feydeau's spiritual history of perfume. Patrick McGraw celebrates Joy Williams, while Lamorna Ash, Steven Phillips-Horst, and Aodhan Madden examine Gen Z spirituality, atheism's decline, and new forms of contemplation. Includes soul-purifying LIFEMAXXING recommendations and closing wisdom from Tea Hačić-Vlahović: "Devotion and humiliation are holy."

Spike offers a soapbox to cultural critics and literary essayists to chronicle our time in thought. Spike is also visually splashy, by turns pushy, poetic, unexpected – and not shy to start an argument.