From their origins in the art student bohemia of Dusseldorf nearly 40 years ago to their iconic status today as pioneers of Techno, Kraftwerk have never compromised their singular aesthetic. An interview with Ralf Hütter

London School of Economics, UK

Art for sale, the media, fictional Europe and moribund Punk

In staging large-scale participatory events, artists are creating new narratives for our cultural landscape

Whit Stillman’s re-released film trilogy is a celluloid portrait of wealthy young New Yorkers in search of a sense of identity

Trying to see the big picture on a visit to London

Plans are afoot to transform the derelict yet ultra-moderne Battersea Power Station into a giant leisure complex

Kara Walker’s film 8 Possible Beginnings, or the Creation of African-America; a Moving Picture by the Young, Self-Taught, Genius of the South, K.E. Walker (2005) was screened at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York in March. Her exhibition ‘After the Deluge’ is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 25 June. She lives and works in New York.

Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker unleash the potential of Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC sound system

From their origins in the art student bohemia of Dusseldorf nearly 40 years ago to their iconic status today as pioneers of Techno, Kraftwerk have never compromised their singular aesthetic. Ralf Hütter talked to Michael Bracewell

Sue Tompkins’s performances and exhibitions explore the shifts and ruptures of reverie, recollection and allusion

From exuberant sculptures to melodramatic videos, sentimental films and discursive performances Damián Ortega disrupts forms even as he creates them

Using light, sound, text, video and objects, Angela Bulloch makes art that explores the systems that organize our behaviour

Dan Perjovschi’s simple drawings and cartoons mount a fleeting assault on the white cube

Owls, Inuits and cultural collision; museums, marketing and clichés

Ghosts, spells and invisible architecture; ducks, David Lynch and the smell of Mars

Throbbing Gristle’s first album in 25 years will be released later this year. frieze talked to band members Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

An oak tree, allegory, spirituality and the Grotesque

Since the early 1960s, Jonas Mekas has been documenting his life on film, creating a personal testament to friendship, exile and the flow of history

In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination

Femininity, decay; beauty, violence, representation

Triple Candie, New York, USA