Ella Plevin

Composite photo of swifts in flight in late summer

Composite photo of swifts in flight in late summer

THE DOWNwARD SPIRAL: FALL

DEAN KISSICK’s latest column is an ode to the coming fall, where New York is struggles to bring normalcy back into play. But when was New York ever normal?

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The Downward Spiral: Manhattan

DEAN KISSICK writes from New York and the heart of the global pandemic. Nothing Dean or any of his friends say is medical advice.

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Now Zero has been a staple at Spike online, but now, fittingly alongside Brexit, we also bid farewell to Ella and her column. Fear not, Ella will continue to scrawl across the walls of Spike’s print pages, and there will be others to take her spot, though not her place. You’re not reading it properly unless you click through and play all the links at once.

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Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan , 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m  © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist and Le Voyage à Nantes

Huang Yong Ping, Serpent d’Océan, 2012, Aluminium, inox, 120 m

Photo: archives kamel mennour © ADAGP Huang Yong Ping. Courtesy the artist, Le Voyage à Nantes, and kamel mennour, Paris/London

Art of the Decade

By Daniel Baumann, Folakunle Oshun, Alisa Prudnikova, Ella Plevin, Joanna Kamm, Hou Hanru, Jay Sanders, Rita Vitorelli, Kolja Reichert, Diana Campbell Betancourt

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Michael Andrews,  Good and Bad at Games , 1964-8

Michael Andrews, Good and Bad at Games, 1964-8

Now Zero: Multitrack

This month Outworld™ becomes a daily, weekly, and monthly annual subscription to social in cites, tactile inbox, virtual companion ships, micro e-gestion, aisle vista, UFOs, serenityNowplus, tax in Saint Ives, chronovoyagé and more in C major. Download Grammarly now to VOTE LABOUR

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Now Zero: In Through The Out Door

This month Ella (or something like her) has dinner with Andre and puts on a happy face

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Natalia Osipova, principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet in London

Natalia Osipova, principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet in London

Now Zero: Flung Turns

At the ballet, Ella thinks about traversing artforms, borders, and identities

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Kathy Acker, Pussycat Fever , Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995

Kathy Acker, Pussycat Fever, Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995

Kathy Acker “I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker” at ICA

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Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1631 Minerva at the Gemaldegalerie

Rembrandt van Rijn, Minerva, 1631, 60.5 x 49 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Now Zero: Light on Water

This month, Ella Plevin drifts largely unnoticed through Baku, Paris, and Berlin.

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The Good Life was a popular British sitcom about a suburban couple who tried to escape modern life and go “back to the land” of Surbiton, South West London in which the “radical thinking” of the counter culture finds synergy with middle class (yuppie) Britain.

The Good Life was a popular British sitcom about a suburban couple who tried to escape modern life and go “back to the land” of Surbiton, South West London in which the “radical thinking” of the counter culture finds synergy with middle class (yuppie) Britain.

NOW ZERO: THE GOOD LIFE

This month Ella Plevin lets matters ferment with a little help from her SCOBY. She brews bittersweet tea and finds narcissism and historical myopia at the bottom of the cup.

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Annotated images of the Fomalhaut system from NASA/ESA.

The details show the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b (aka Dagon).

NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

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How to dress the devil? If there’s one thing we can learn from the canon of villainy it would be that evil rarely requires a stylist. The arts are populated with villains – on both sides of the screen, page, canvas – who know how to work far more dashing cuts than their heroic counterparts. By Ella Plevin

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NOW ZERO: AKER MAKUM

Tired of all the GoT takes? For her May column, Ella dives into a fish tank and digs into mystical poetic botany in her mother's garden, the Black Forest and at the Serpentine's latest symposium. What is planted may never die.

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NOW ZERO: THE PRADA CODE

This month Ella Plevin slides her way in and out of “thin places” and finds that there’s plenty of nothing to think about (except the number sixty-four).

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Now Zero: Ninja of the Nth

For this month’s column, ELLA PLEVIN visits “Life Death Rebirth” at the Royal Academy of Arts and London's Wearable Technology and Digital Health Technology Show

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Photo: Ella Plevin

Turning Tides: Anne Imhof at Tate Modern

Reviewed by Ella Plevin

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A trunk full of slime eels exploding on an Oregon highway

A trunk full of slime eels exploding on an Oregon highway

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ELLA PLEVIN overdoses on JG Ballard and changes the name of her column

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Essay: Hyperworld Underworlds

We seem to be living through the revival of esotericism and technobelief in a disenchanted age, but what we are witnessing is no comeback. The gods we pray to and spells we cast have, in fact, been here all along, now they just bear different names. The reality is that the Enlightenment has yet to come… By Ella Plevin