Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts reportage Ton Grote decided to photograph

Ton Grote decided to photograph all the loose items his parents owned: teapots

that rebuild themselves and ruin

Tiny Lives at the Collection

and there I discovered the great works of Matisse

Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts reportage Ton Grote decided to photographA 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;