The incoming director of Kunsthalle Zürich on thinking translationally, pulling out all the stops for artists, and a city coming into its cultural own.

In a six-hour performance-installation at Funkhaus, Vienna, over-direction stymies the bleed between make-believe hospice and real-life aging and dying.

What did algorithms ever do for visual culture but dumb it down? Artists, it turns, out, have been evolving a new form in the unlikeliest of corners: YouTube.

In a festival brimming with doom and gloom, a film by Joachim Trier won Cannes’s Grand Prix by offering its characters a choice to mend.

The former director of Kunsthalle Zürich on why so many of his colleagues love art, their jobs, and the profession – and yet still want to leave.

The US poet’s two newest books, Wave of Blood and The Rose, find life overflowing from its innumerable wounds.

Body mods by Göksu Kunak, Haus der Kunst’s Shu Lea Cheang retrospective, even a speculative “unconference” at Bayerischer Hof – a visual recap of Munich’s marquee art festival.

The new director of Vienna’s ALBERTINA on building a universal institution for art to meet the public where they are.

A dinner for Klára Hosnedlová’s CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof served three courses, migration stories, and what one server called “a dystopia you can live in.”

The Yugoslavian-born sculptor doesn’t make her otherworldly beings so much as let them onto this perceptual plane.

The artist muses on the authenticity of instinct and what to do with works that are strong enough to fight back.

A son of the diaspora went looking for an education in modern Chinese art – and found both a buzzing market and a new feeling of being made whole.

What was last year’s mega-watt pop album brat really about? Smart marketing, of course – but also art-making in-progress, in public. A reflection on thinking past (acid-green) surfaces.

The founder of Hong Kong art’s black cube extols sheltering artists from the system and the experimental drug called jet lag.

On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.

At a moment when so many cultural forms seem to be in recession, the safest index for clout is knowing which gastropub makes the most photogenic vegan steak.

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.

To metabolize his challenger’s power. Or was he just getting his rocks off?

Need a foot massage during Art Basel? Spike’s favorite Hongkonger has your spot – and so many tips besides on the city’s best dim sum, speakeasies, and cha chaang tengs.