Ranging from opera sets to iPad screens across hundreds of paintings, A Paris blockbuster edifies the British artist’s greatest virtue: to make intimacy visible without ever violating it.

“Global refuge.” “Cosmopolitan nowhere.” Under a regime of rent hikes, right-wing politics, and violent censorship, what is becoming of a city whose image long amounted to artistic freedom?

In the New York author’s new novel, the media-core melodrama Little Pink Book, abuse of language comes as a so very sweet surprise.

In Berlin, a highly interactive retrospective makes palpable the late Brazilian artist’s turn to touch as the occasion for psychic awakening.

The artist, filmmaker, and author of Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat grapples with magical thinking, implication in military-industrial AI, and machine learning’s many roads not taken.

A lecture at Vienna Digital Cultures cuts through the soporific fog of “optimization” semantics to uncover AI-thoritarianism’s rising bid for power.

Can history painting survive 2025? In Sobczak’s hallucinatory canvases, it glitches into view, caught between the mythic and the meme.

Drawing on feminized aesthetics and LLM performativity, a lecture at Vienna Digital Cultures scours user interactions with AI for our collective desires – among them, a little too much charm.

GHB clocks, newly drawn brains, stoned computers – a three-day tour of the annual festival Independent Space Index uncovered the city’s offspace unconscious.

A lecture at Vienna Digital Cultures eulogizes a fading era of the internet, drawing on pre-millennial cyberspace, a post-millennial return of cyber occultism, and the Golem of Prague.

AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?

Maker of stash houses and squad-car coffins, R.I.P. Germain’s key is an icy disquiet. His aim isn’t to glorify crime, though, so much as to re-humanize those the law is drawn to exclude.

Once was a sweater empire built from pictures of pain. As catchy as they were outrageous, the “United Colors of Benetton” induced an era-defining confusion: Where does the ad end and the world begin?

Are you above getting rich by eating gas-soaked pizza? Sure, the attention economy is bringing out the dumbest in people; but no picture distills the feeling of being online these days quite like the ...

A new collection of New York club dispatches alchemizes the dancefloor’s utopian politics, animal debauchery, and many ghostly pasts.

Precious Okoyomon, quori theodor, and Bobbi Salvör Menuez’s food art is sliming the psychic space between the body’s holes – and might just “turn” you trans. Republished from Spike #83 – Food.

Ahead of Art Basel 2025, Chinese artist Wendi Yan received the Hyundai Motor Group’s Grand Prix for a new film re-imagining the history of East-West epistemic encounter.

If Carlo Ratti’s design showcase is bloated, messy, and somewhat too disinterested in aesthetics, its address of climate crisis also abounds with a rare quality for 2025: optimism.

Headed to art’s big bazaar on the knee of the Rhine? Don’t miss the city’s best croissants, a Friends-themed dive bar, and a dancefloor worth the queue.

The incoming director of Kunsthalle Zürich on thinking translationally, pulling out all the stops for artists, and a city coming into its cultural own.

In a six-hour performance-installation at Funkhaus, Vienna, over-direction stymies the bleed between make-believe hospice and real-life aging and dying.