ANDREW PASQUIER is an Amsterdam-based freelance writer and editor, as well as the chief editor of BUTT magazine.
Billy Bultheel, Alexander Iezzi, Ivan Cheng, and Cem Dukkha share the secret of their noisy, strobing, transcendent new album: cringe will set you free. Premiering the live video collab of “F**k U”
In Paris, curator Naomi Beckwith has turned the Palais de Tokyo into a showcase for the slow tides and insurgent synaptic leaps between theory and art.
Memes-for-clothes and post-robotic aesthetics, DeepDream politics and fads that burned too hot, too fast – here Spike’s flashbulb views on another cracked year in culture.
In Amsterdam, a basement of post-human body doubles is less of a step forward for a savant of Afrofuturist world-building than a rehash her previous hits.
If Carlo Ratti’s design showcase is bloated, messy, and somewhat too disinterested in aesthetics, its address of climate crisis also abounds with a rare quality for 2025: optimism.
