London, 29th July 2024

Spike Art Magazine Launches Complete Digital Archive and New Subscription Service

Spike is launching a complete digital archive in collaboration with Exact Editions, an exciting development in restructuring the magazine’s subscription offerings.

Subscribers will now have access via the Exact Editions website and the Exactly app to a complete, fully searchable digital archive of eighty print quarterlies, going back to Spike #1 (Autumn 2004). Additionally, the partnership will avail subscribing universities, libraries, galleries, and museums of both the complete archive and newly released issues through Exact Editions’ IP-authenticated site licenses.

Spike is a platform for cultural criticism and unconventional ideas, mixing writing on themes urgent and forever unresolved, from “Web3” and “After Beauty” to “Plants” and “Patriarchy.” Spike is also visually splashy, by turns pushy, poetic, unexpected – and not shy to start an argument. Featuring literary luminaries like Nicolas Bourriaud, Jamieson Webster, Dean Kissick, McKenzie Wark, Joanna Walsh, and Jeppe Ugelvig, the magazine has enjoyed a profound impact on art and its discourse in Europe and North America for two decades and counting.

Coupling Exact Editions’ elegant print-replica display and intuitive commands with Spike’s punchy visual style, the publishing partnership aims to both preserve the magazine’s legacy and inaugurate a new, digital chapter.

Individual subscriptions to Spike Art Magazine are available through the Exact Editions shop

Institutional subscriptions to Spike Art Magazine are available through the Exact Editions shop

Spike founder Rita Vitorelli, says: “The Spike team are thrilled to present twenty years of contemporary art history on such a sleek digital platform. Exact Editions’ technology was crucial in reformulating our approach to print and digital subscriptions. We’re also excited to make the magazine available to a wider public through institutional subscribers, particularly to students.”

Exact Editions’ Managing Director Daryl Rayner: “Spike has been an exciting presence on the European art scene for two decades. The magazine is an important resource that connects to the very essence of art – something that we’re excited to offer both individual subscribers as well as academic institutions.”

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