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For her retrospective exhibition at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Isa Genzken has presented 75 sculptural assemblages from across her career to celebrate her 75th birthday. On this occasion, we sorted through her archive of invitations cards—historical documents which double as allegories of communication and traces of an unfixed identity.

Famously concerned with the ways technology has affected human society, and the way human society has in turn used technology to reflect the ways it has changed, Jon Rafman has also explored the sublime, the uncanny, the ingenuity of human creativity, and the changing role of the artist. Presenting a new body of work generated with AI, here he reflects on building virtual worlds for the viewer to get lost within.

At the Ballet National de Marseille, collective (LA)HORDE are re-energizing the classical forms of the institution with what they’ve termed “post-internet dance.” Poetic, punk, optimistic, politically engaged, their work is rooted in the realities and dreams of the 21st century, looking to real people, real bodies, and the power of movement to break from the exclusionary rigidity of the ballet.

Imagining the interior lives of those maligned, canceled, and spurned, Emma Cline’s work as a writer is free of simplistic moralizing, instead interested in the stories we all tell ourselves and how we create our own personal delusions. With her recently released second novel "The guest", she delivers an already-classic exploration of class neurosis in late capitalist America.

Formed in Berlin by two Italians, CCCP was named for the Cyrillic spelling of the USSR, but pronounced in Italian: Chi-chi-chi-pee. Reaching beyond the simplicity of punk, but enamored with its nihilistic truth, politics and possibilities, they created a sound equal parts Soviet and Coca-Cola, avant-garde and folk.

At once precious and repellant, Aurel Schmidt’s ongoing series of doll drawings tell a story about New York, the art world, and the hell of being a pretty young thing.

Over four decades, Japanese photographer Hiroh Kikai has captured the portraits of people who passed by the Sensō-ji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district.