A Renaissance woman expounds on awkwardness as a live feeling, the freedoms of art’s nonsense economy, and her exhibition at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan.

A sixty-year survey including Eleanor Antin, Vaginal Davis, and Akeem Smith tracks recorded performance’s shift from antagonism to top-down media to ubiquity in the experience economy.

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.

An artist of chance encounters muses about the intimacy of dirt, world-record mountaineering, and art that opens up the body’s every cell.

Ahead of the Alpine extravaganza, Vincenzo de Bellis talks his Peep-Hole origins, sickness as an artistic thematic, and viewing the fairs as curatorial snapshots of the right now.

In Aachen, colored-pencil drawings adopt the attributes of Inanna, written history’s earliest goddess, to complicate tarot’s conventional hierarchies of interpretation.