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Featuring Steven Phillips-Horst decrying foodie-ism; Philippa Snow on Saturn eating his son; Aodhan Madden reviewing the “new delicious” photography; J Lee’s paying homage to NYC restaurant-art-king Julian Schnabel; portraits of queer food group Spiral Theory Test Kitchen and Austrian chef-artist trio Healthy Boy Band; Dominikus Müller on tableware as a cultural mirror; Joanna Walsh on the politics of dinner fashion; Tea Hačić-Vlahović on ketchup and self-respect; seven wicked amuse-bouches; and so many other courses.
The former director of Kunsthalle Zürich on why so many of his colleagues love art, their jobs, and the profession – and yet still want to leave.
The US poet’s two newest books, Wave of Blood and The Rose, find life overflowing from its innumerable wounds.
Body mods by Göksu Kunak, Haus der Kunst’s Shu Lea Cheang retrospective, even a speculative “unconference” at Bayerischer Hof – a visual recap of Munich’s marquee art festival.
The new director of Vienna’s ALBERTINA on building a universal institution for art to meet the public where they are.
Dusky purple was widely hyped to be the hue of 2025 – only to be passed over for a tiresome brown. Why would fashion prefer comfort to change?
A dinner for Klára Hosnedlová’s CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof served three courses, migration stories, and what one server called “a dystopia you can live in.”
The Yugoslavian-born sculptor doesn’t make her otherworldly beings so much as let them onto this perceptual plane.
The artist muses on the authenticity of instinct and what to do with works that are strong enough to fight back.
A Milan storyboard exhibition unfolds not only the secrets of many iconic films, but the story of cinema itself.
A son of the diaspora went looking for an education in modern Chinese art – and found both a buzzing market and a new feeling of being made whole.
What was last year’s mega-watt pop album brat really about? Smart marketing, of course – but also art-making in-progress, in public. A reflection on thinking past (acid-green) surfaces.
The founder of Hong Kong art’s black cube extols sheltering artists from the system and the experimental drug called jet lag.
On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.
At a moment when so many cultural forms seem to be in recession, the safest index for clout is knowing which gastropub makes the most photogenic vegan steak.
Can words ever really capture the tang of sour milk? Torbjørn Rødland, Diane Severin Nguyen, and Yair Oelbaum are making photos that indulge the tongue’s less speakable pleasures.
To metabolize his challenger’s power. Or was he just getting his rocks off?
One leader’s memeification shows deceit is no longer just a tactic – it’s their shameless appeal.
Need a foot massage during Art Basel? Spike’s favorite Hongkonger has your spot – and so many tips besides on the city’s best dim sum, speakeasies, and cha chaang tengs.
As fashion continuously cycles between excess and access, who are the industry’s real “insiders”?
In a city she once considered a refuge but that now censors genocide, six dialectical slideshows chronicle the recovery of the beautiful from the ugliness underneath.
A leading European media theorist’s user guide to opting out of compliance with techno-totalitarianism; or, how to stop kidding yourself and finally quit Meta.
On the rigged economy of making cool images and letting her audience shoot the editorial at Park Avenue Armory.
After closing TV Bar, the artist went West to co-open LA’s New Theater Hollywood. The biggest surprise? How much she misses Berlin’s “cultural dentists.”
Starring a trio of formally wild features, a long-overdue entry in the global trans film canon, and a flickering descent into colonial history.