Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts textiles examines the fundamental relationship between

examines the fundamental relationship between design and art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and ties this in with ecological design

Introducing the book is seminal English designer Jasper Morrison

Derived from his popular blog

Permanence has created a climate crisis

Spike Art #80 Summer 2024 - The State of the Arts textiles examines the fundamental relationship betweenA 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;