Two years in the making, artist Josh Azzarella has seized the video scenery of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for new potential fantasies by erasing nearly every soul in sight, including the zombies, and replacing the classic pop song with an ambient soundtrack.

Meschac Gaba amusingly mixes the status everyone gives to motor vehicles with the pride they take in their hairstyles in The Street, a show of sculptures woven from synthetic hair, which is ironically derived from petroleum, at Michael Stevenson’s Cape Town gallery.

Creator of the HOPE poster, artist Shepard Fairey has teamed up with Evolutionary Media Group founder Jennifer Gross to compile an Abrams book of new and recent art—inspired by the Obama campaign and victory—that benefits Americans for the Arts.

Terzo Piano, the restaurant in Renzo Piano’s new Modern wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, serves an innovative menu of fresh, local, and organic Italian dishes. Sleek interior design and scenic views of Millennium Park make it a stellar destination.

New York’s Museum of Art and Design surveys 52 international artists and designers that use paper in a myriad of ways to create simple yet inventive sculptures, installations, and video animations in the exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife.