With the opening of artist's major MoMA show, some reflections on Kai Althoff's exalted characters and metaphysical aims

How is contemporary art responding to the current refugee crisis? Three case studies ...

David Grubbs on Kai Althoff's recorded music, in the new issue of frieze d/e out now

Claus Richter on attending an early concert by Workshop

Tobias Madison on the 2001 album Es liebt Dich und Deine Köperlichkeit ein Ausgeflippter by Workshop

Lena Henke on Kai Althoff and Lutz Braun's installation Kolten Flynn (2006)

Mathieu Malouf on material juxtapositions in Kai Althoff's works from 2007

A Man Walks his Dog in the Park

Kai's Boutique

The 25th issue of this magazine, and changes at frieze

Nicolaus Schafhausen on Germany, origins and individualism as utopia in the work of Kai Althoff

On the counter-cultural icon Hubert Fichte, founder of German-language Pop literature

On the new large-scale co-production Medea.Matrix by Susanne Kennedy, who will soon join Chris Dercon's new team at Berlin's Volksbühne

What's behind the outcry againt Chris Dercon's appointment at the Volksbühne? A roundtable with theatre critics Eva Behrendt and Tobi Müller

Jan Verwoert on friction between the creative worker and the local boardroom

The Berlin artists' group Honey-Suckle Company is a fashion house, band and style icon. A new book outlines the group's activities

Paint, blog, ask questions - Michaela Eichwald speaks with Pablo Larios

With their tribal tattoos facing the world, the sculptures of Anna Uddenberg shed a light on class and gender stereotypes

Anna Teixeira Pinto speaks with Simon Fujiwara about the promise of happiness in a world gone awry

Choose a single object of special significance from your working or living environment: models of USS Jimmy Carter

Weiss Falk, Basel

Galerie Christine König, Vienna

Raven Row, London
 

Swiss Institute, New York

Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Germany

At Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany, the photographer linked myriad trends, fashions and style

Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany

Clages, Cologne, Germany

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Various venues, Zurich, Switzerland 

Various locations, Berlin, Germany