In the age of memetic outrage, can art find the courage to be ambivalent? @travisdream writes on art’s never ending morality play, feat. work by @frogspitsimulat @nayafia @Ro_Mclaughlin @metalabel_ .

@Yeche_Lange @9trevv

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“If you believe in a world where all relationships are nutritious and harmonious, then the fact that a borderline imaginary asset named $PUSSYINBIO can capture the hearts of millions is a deeply unpleasant reality.” – Jared Madere of @Yeche_Lange on @9trevv

“What’s off-putting is the ‘world is my photo dump’ approach that mobilizes you to set your phone down on city concrete, backpedal across a pedestrian crossing, and then bound back across it like Carrie Bradshaw on the worst afternoon of her life.” – @bizsherbert

Under a regime of rent hikes, right-wing politics, and violent censorship, what is becoming of a city whose image long amounted to artistic freedom? John Holten takes stock of the future of a “cosmopolitan nowhere.” Illustrated by @freeze_magazin .

“Today, the question of art’s relationship with politics might be reformulated from effectuating social change to distinguishing between art and information.” – Adina Glickstein at @aspenartmuseum’s festival AIR 2025.

“The Vulgar Image is the expression of machines, and those who have had their brains scrambled by machines. It is the true image of our time: the image of how we are corrupted and changed by images.” – @deankissick .

“Christelle Oyiri chronicles her figures as martyrs, victims of their own success: objects of envy, endlessly visible and scrutinized in our networked era.” – Camille Kingué.

“Discretion, restraint, and the aesthetics of stealth wealth have emerged as the most violent forms of cultural obscenity, not because they vibrate with dishonesty, but rather because they vibrate with indifference.” – Alison Gingeras & Alissa Bennett.

“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.” – @travisdream .

Sophie Gogl, 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘬, 2025. Featured in Spike 84 – Vulgarity. OUT NOW!.

@amandafortini @FSELV

Today, I have come to people-watch, my favorite Fremont Street activity. A woman in a black-and-white striped dress stands at a podium testifying about faith (“You have to choose one master!”) while a man in a “Who Ate All the Pussy?” T-shirt looks on.” –@amandafortini on @FSELV

“It is difficult to know whether the filmmakers involved in the Cinema of Transgression are artists or perverts – but it’s also an unnecessary question, since all the best practitioners are both.” – @SnowPhilip70953 .

“Publicity, with Benneton, begins to animate, to provoke, to seize public space. The enterprise manufactures meaning without intermediaries. That same year, Silvio Berlusconi will be elected Prime Minister.” – Isabella Zamboni.

“Yes, they make ‘bad’ decisions, such as sleeping with the US president, or wearing a short skirt and no knickers near paparazzi. Snow’s point, however, is that these decisions are exactly that: (often) aesthetic choices, aka fuck you’s to societal expectations.” – Susan Finlay

“Rob Pruitt conceived Cocaine Buffet as both peace offering and aggressive reentry tactic. An innuendo made explicit, a brutal acknowledgment of practices that existed in bathroom stalls and private apartments.” – Francesco Tenaglia .

“The word classy is vulgar. The word vulgar is not. Pregnancy is vulgar but being mother isn’t. Credit cards are vulgar, cash is king. The sun is vulgar, the moon is gay. Champagne is cheap – the more it costs, the cheaper it is.” – Tea Hačić-Vlahović.