In his latest painting exhibition at David Zwirner, Paris, Josh Smith’s expressive ambivalence gives way to a lyrical defiguration of sameness, as the self holds on tight through the world’s psychoses.

Ringing out the summer, the Viennese art world’s own Philip Marlowe, Max Henry, sleuthed across the hardboiled city, looking for the traces of the evasive Neutral.

Spread over a wooded coastal island, the second Helsinki Biennial posits flora and soil as more potent agents of politics than language-based art activists.

In the mistake culture produced by an era of surveillance, our idea of the good isn’t defined by action, but its appearance, and the power to make truth boils down to who keeps the receipts. By Matilda Lin Berke

Phones from a dog’s eyes, knock-off poetry, and archives archives archives: Spike’s editors recommend four shows and one walking tour during Munich’s marquee art event “VARIOUS OTHERS.”