Can words ever really capture the tang of sour milk? Torbjørn Rødland, Diane Severin Nguyen, and Yair Oelbaum are making photos that indulge the tongue’s less speakable pleasures.

Transcending relational aesthetics, a New York retrospective catalogues the artist’s troubling of Western objecthood and the commodification of “Tiravanija” in a globalized art world.

In Paris, expressive ambivalence gives way to a lyrical defiguration of sameness, as the self holds on tight through the world’s psychoses.