What’s left from the year that was? A lucky septet of writers, curators, and artists review the sweetnesses lingering on their tongues and the splinters still stuck under their skins.

In New York, the mid-career retrospective “Project for a New American Century” recaps Kline’s horrorcore journalization of the 21st-century precariat.

A blockbuster survey lauds video art as a democratic counter to tyranny. But with endless AI content usurping the medium’s function, will the show prove to be a post mortem?

Even if the tragic hero is no longer possible, Gasda’s latest at-home play does confront us with the moral quandaries that come with drama, conflict, and power games.

Rounding out Spike x Liste Expedition Monthly Picks for 2022, Geoffrey Mak finds in painter-hacker Rachel Rossin’s metaverse fables a melancholy embrace of our fractured lives.