Spike’s founding publisher unwinds the magazine’s history of making space for artists, critics, and the rest of the Kunstbetrieb to be generous to what art is – without conceding to its rules.

What does music sound like inside out? Three producers muse to Anne Imhof about the subconscious of noise on their new dual album HOAX.

In Los Angeles, a second take on a watershed exhibition underscores how little has changed aesthetically and conceptually since 1992.

For the first time in over a quarter of a century, the MAK, Vienna, is dedicating a major exhibition to Dagobert Peche, visionary and enfant terrible of the Wiener Werkstätte.

Theorist Amy Ireland and recrypted philosopher Maya B. Kronic footnote their new book on demonic possession, PC Music, and taking back the history of the future.

In Kassel, an eminent Black sculptor’s first European retrospective is a visceral reminder that abstract art is always rooted in specific bodies, histories, and politics.

Buoyed by the release of his second record, till someone cries, the prince of Austrian rap revels in the contradictions of the city’s dirty glitterati.

Rent hike by rent hike, people are drifting to the city’s fringes, taking its “poor but sexy” promise with them. Five denizens reality-check Berlin’s latest in-between moment.

Everything’s expensive, it’s hot year-round, and even the art market is dipping – but a sense of being in Eric Adams’s CGI hell together still endures.

Time was, consoles were button-mashing escapes from class or the 9-to-5. But as games increasingly mimic our lived experiences, can our digital avatars offer a way back into the real?

From her exhibition at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, a pathbreaking choreographer of touch thrills to a transition into less embodied forms of poetry.

A survey spotlighting long-marginalized subjects concedes that even empathetic portrait painting doesn’t always fashion an expansive notion of Black being.

In London, a Gesamtkunstwerk by the post-internet artist par excellence claims medieval guilds, Albrecht Dürer, and Wagnerian opera as precedents for scattering the ashes of authorship.

Amid his exhibition at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, the Japanese bricolage photographer presents art as helping us sit with the discomfort of the unknown.

The Art & Language founder on the tyranny of the visual, uncontrollable grease, and the time he was nearly beaten up for his wordsmithery.

Looking for a cold Kölsch at the world’s oldest art fair? The founders of gallery Drei commend Cologne’s best potato pancakes and techno digs; plus: French Toast à la Martin Kippenberger.

The digital era is synonymous with flat, persona-driven fiction. How can literature transcend celebrified Tweets and respond innovatively to the web’s decentered form?

US premieres from Luca Guadagnino, Sean Baker, David Cronenberg, and others set into motion the unreliability of images and the politics of place and placelessness.