“Neither damning nor uncritical, Asher’s work described institutional conditions that many took for granted, or never noticed.” Travis Diehl (Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ) on Michael Asher for e-flux Criticism ow.ly/TlzG50VaZ3h

“This winter, visitors to Madison Square Park’s greensward were treated to a hunk of postindustrial kink.” Travis Diehl (Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ) fixes his gaze on Nicole Eisenman’s “Fixed Crane” installation, forthcoming from NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/limp-…

Amid right-wing sanitization of gender, art, and so much else, Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ asks: Could homebrewed video games by the likes of Tale of Tales, Theo Triantafyllidis & Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley be the best refuge for the core strangeness of experience? 🔗 in reply

“The paintings imply both ruin and potential, like the strangely decayed pastoral cottage in ‘Impressions in Spring,’ which she said isn’t and won’t be finished.” Travis Diehl (Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ) writes about Janiva Ellis for New York Times Arts ow.ly/eoLf50VmTPa

In an era of shared plates when the camera eats first, can foodification even help art find its own umami? W/ cancela lansbury aleksander baron Amber Husain Whitney Mallett @GELINAZ Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ Chris Fite-Wassilak @lucy j. walsh. Spike 83 – FOOD – is OUT NOW! shop.spikeartmagazine.com/products/issue…

* * * Libra Season: ‘Give Me the Head of JD Vance’ * * * ~{ he never sleeps, he says. he says he’ll never die }~ On the meme that proves memes won't save us. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra… Spike Art Magazine JD Vance

“The energy of the head had returned, as a memetic residue, to the online culture that spawned it. Had it been a protest? A tribute? A coup? It had been everything: the head of JD Vance reveling in its mutant will to power.” – Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ in Libra Season spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

A Bitcoin bar, a fake AI art show, and the ghost of Ireland – Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ goes inside the delusional overlap of tech evangelism and Western decline in this month’s “Libra Season.” 🔗in reply, now online!

What do you do when the culture wars come for public art by zeroing out your grants? Throw another dinner. This month, Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ reports from benefits by Rose Art Museum Rhizome and Triple Canopy about the fallout at Nat'l Endow f/t Arts. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

“Everyone I talked with emphasized that the US ‘fundraising landscape’ has always been challenging. To go that route, you need more than ideas—you need a stomach for high-stakes schmoozing.” Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ on NYC’s art gala season amid NEA cuts Spike Art Magazine ow.ly/OafT50Wb4bc

What if the new far right isn’t a backlash against neoliberalism, but its end stage? Join Quinn Slobodian at Spike on Friday, 4 July for the launch of “Hayek’s Bastards,” his new book on populist social hierarchy and the return to “nature.”

“If Curtis Yarvin’s proposal scandalizes you, maybe inoculate yourself with a little doomscrolling. Art won’t get to the next thing, and neither will its institutions, by ignoring what mass culture hacks up. The only way out is through.” – Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

“The proposal itself is the gesture—the art, even. It’s a vector of an institutional critique in limbo, somewhere between bureaucratic follow-through and futility.” Travis Diehl (Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ) reports on “How to Defile the Venice Biennale” for Spike Art Magazine ow.ly/q9Ns50WEkeQ

In the age of memetic outrage, can art find the courage to be ambivalent? Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ writes on art’s never ending morality play, feat. work by Karyn Nakamura Nadia Asparouhova Rosanna McLaughlin Metalabel spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

“Stark certainty, however performative, makes a good meme. But ambivalence is antimemetic. Is it brave, then, to broadcast ambivalence? To state a complex thought, even when it’s guaranteed to be misunderstood?” Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ on memetic outrage Spike Art Magazine ow.ly/F9Fz50WWniv

goodnight ☾

Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'The Artworld Who Cried Wolf' by Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ for ArtReview_. While the art world debates censorship internally, government actions pose a far greater threat to free expression. artreview.com/the-artworld-w…

Increasingly, “the algorithm” doesn’t give you what you ask for. Instead, you’re presented with cheaply produced extremism. It’s like the whole world is a strip club with the lights on, but also an escape room, and the only door is fake. – Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ spikeartmagazine.com/articles/libra…

“While the artworld both advocates for and cries wolf about deplatforming offensive work, people with political power are hungrily eyeing enclaves of free expression.” Travis Diehl (Tཞą۷ıʂ DıɛɧƖ) on the US administration and the art world for ArtReview_ ow.ly/9t1z50X6M11