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Courtroom sketch of Elizabeth Holmes being cross-examined by prosecutor Robert Leach, November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer

Courtroom sketch of Elizabeth Holmes being cross-examined by prosecutor Robert Leach, November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer

User Error: Fraud

This month, Adina Glickstein considers three girls’ grifts – and the startup-ification of subjectivity that might be the real crime after all.  

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Courtesy: the author, who writes: “I took this selfie in 2016 during an internet sex session, and also used it later with several other partners.”

Courtesy: the author, who writes: “I took this selfie in 2016 during an internet sex session, and also used it later with several other partners.”

Q/A JOANNA WALSH

Low-res, badly angled, pixilated, over-exposed: Joanna Walsh advocates images that reveal effort and failure.

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Self-portrait of author wearing Ambien-induced Depop purchase, 2022

Self-portrait of author wearing Ambien-induced Depop purchase, 2022

WORN OUT: Shrugging Towards Bethlehem

For her November column, Cara Schacter went to Joan Didion’s estate sale and felt nothing.

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Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates, 1969

Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates, 1969

A Weekend in Tbilisi

Flamboyance, mysticism, grungy bohemia, offbeat artistic projects: Tbilisi’s art and nightlife scene, with a listing of spots to watch.

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Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy,16–18 November 1964, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York; Photo © 2022 Estate of Robert R. McElroy / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS)  

Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy, November 16–18, 1964, Judson Dance Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York. Photo © 2022 Estate of Robert R. McElroy / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS)

I AM BEING MY BODY

Carolee Schneemann wrested pleasure from taboos, showing how more the body is than a sex-negative society can admit. Read our review of her latest retrospective at Barbican in London.

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Smother to death, bring back to life

Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks in November: Brit Barton on the allure of Inga Danysz’s stoic Sarcophagus 03.

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Vunkwan Tam,  78i78 , 2022, blanket, water, synthetic doe urine, 145 x 140 x 18 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo: Michael Yu

Vunkwan Tam, 78i78, 2022, blanket, water, synthetic doe urine, 145 x 140 x 18 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo: Michael Yu

Vunkwan Tam: The Last Laugh

In his debut show at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong, Vunkwan Tam turns doe urine into a metaphor for dramatized emotional wallowing.

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View of “Ian Cheng: Life After BOB,” LAS (Light Art Space), Berlin. © 2022 Ian Cheng. Presented by LAS (Light Art Space). Photo: Andrea Rossetti

View of “Ian Cheng: Life After BOB,” LAS (Light Art Space), Berlin. © 2022 Ian Cheng. Presented by LAS (Light Art Space). Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Empathy Is an Open Circuit: An Interview with Ian Cheng

Ian Cheng speaks about his latest film shown at LAS in Berlin and about what is left for human selves to do.

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Beth Heinly,  3:00 , 2022. Full comic: https://twitter.com/bethheinly/status/1494716436627005445/photo/1

Beth Heinly, 3:00, 2022. Full comic: https://twitter.com/bethheinly/status/1494716436627005445/photo/1

The Dimes Square Spiral

For his November column, Dean Kissick makes clear what Dimes Square, really, is.

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Paris Internationale 2022 

Paris Internationale 2022 

Autumn in Paris: Welcome to the meta-fair

The 2022 Paris art fairs are all about glocal simulations and works full of text. Read Ingrid Luquet-Gad’s round-up.

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Steven Warwick, Scarecrow , 2021. Photo: Angele Balducci

Steven Warwick, Scarecrow, 2021. Photo: Angele Balducci

User Error: Don’t Be Evil

Being bad feels good. This month, Adina Glickstein chats with the artist Steven Warwick about scapegoats, salvation, and Stanley Kubrick.

"My works are the most sincere and tragic things I have done in life"

"If I tell you I have to kill you with my laser vision"