Looking for a cold Kölsch at the world’s oldest art fair? The founders of gallery Drei commend Cologne’s best potato pancakes and techno digs; plus: French Toast à la Martin Kippenberger.

The digital era is synonymous with flat, persona-driven fiction. How can literature transcend celebrified Tweets and respond innovatively to the web’s decentered form?

US premieres from Luca Guadagnino, Sean Baker, David Cronenberg, and others set into motion the unreliability of images and the politics of place and placelessness.

The author of the epistolary novel Dear Dickhead on redemption, porn censorship, and why straight guys just can’t seem to talk about sex.

A hard-boiled critic wades through Curated by, viennacontemporary, PARTICOLARE, and Parallel, scouring the damp city for its standout installations.

A corner of paradise on earth, sure – but what’s for lunch? The founder of Fitzpatrick Gallery waves adieu to his outpost in the Marais with a menu of pastry, bentō, and natural wine.

If contemporary art had once come to believe it was the genre to subsume all others, it has since been outflanked by the art of just being – which is, ultimately, the art of being hot.

Opening to the Austrian far right’s national election victory, the Graz art festival’s many folk grotesqueries distill the brokenness of social modernity.

The director of Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, revisits a childhood of higher beings and the painting that crowned the German contemporary art’s chief ironist.

In her latest theatrical work, the proudly histrionic Lily McMenamy scrambles all the idiosyncrasies that make up the performance of the self.

The poet, critic, and factotum artist texts with MoMA’s performance curator about the slap-slap of montage in his new short films.

As climate change spawns rich-guy fantasies of colonizing space, a co-author of Thinking Planets excerpts a theory on Earth’s own potential in conversation with Spike.

A French auteur notorious for reenacting patriarchal sex fantasies flips the script post #MeToo by casting an older woman in the role of predator.

Across six Stockholm institutions, an exhibition of tongue-in-cheek “terrorist drag” is vast, charmingly megalomaniacal, and spectacularly queer.

A puckish computer artist decodes salvaging the late painter’s last laptop and his long journey from hating its owner into awe.

The founder of Peres Projects weighs in on why artists still love Berlin and cherishing art history’s one-hit wonders.

Is there more to Austria’s capital than hot sausages and chocolate cake? A precocious gallerist passes the menu on where to eat a vegetable during the city’s art festivities.

In Brussels, a party-like retrospective finds the network painter trying to show her medium becoming “painting” in wordplay, hyperbole, and visual gags.

A joint residency by David Adamo, Giacomo Porfiri, and Wolfgang Staehle poetically revivified the home Jorn called “a machine of human and universal expression.”

Gripped by a crisis of purpose, institutions that once formed culture’s vanguard are redecorating the past in two genres of nostalgia. Is there a way out?

Cast in clay, collage, and lyrical fragments, a constellation of gracefully raw works in Vienna beckon into the artist’s world of fables.