Opening a witty, poignant show at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, the Kunstverein’s director revisits the work that made Sigmar Polke the chief ironist of German contemporary art.

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

The poet, critic, factotum artist, and maker of five new short films texts with a MoMA curator about the slap-slap of montage and coziness as the cousin of the sublime.

Thinking Planets, a new book on the discourse of planetarity, coauthored by Armen Avanessian and Daniel Falb: A Q&A and an excerpt.

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.

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.

In Karlsruhe, an exhibition of wordplays and unruly language salutes the work of early women programmers and recasts art as the bureaucracy of dreams.

In our latest print issue, a recovering artist details the thankless, feckless, and pay-less compromises of writing sense into art.

The co-director of a Berlin festival for experimental music talks designing mass moments for art in the many possibilities of an audience’s trust.

The misfit-starring, guerrilla director’s show at a former Berlin crematorium explodes with four decades of catharsis.

As part of ImpulsTanz, a Vienna exhibition by the choreographer William Forsythe draw attentions to how the body is reined, in ways seen and unseen.

A Renaissance woman expounds on awkwardness as a live feeling, the freedoms of art’s nonsense economy, and her exhibition at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan.

Recent debut novels by Rachel Cattle, Sinéad Gleeson, and Hannah Regel deal with the realities of women making a living making work.

Ahead of her return to mumok & ImPulsTanz, Vienna, the Korean dancer and artist unpacks her interest in control.

Artist Ed Atkins and poet Steven Zultanski recommend eight very agitated or awful books for the summer.