Joseph Beuys

From Joseph Beuys as environmentalist at the Broad, to the cultural plurality of María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Getty, what to see in February

On the centenary of Beuys’s birth, his former student remembers what it was like to study under the iconoclastic artist

Six-years in the making, the comprehensive ‘Museum of Obsessions’ tracks the life and work of the prolific and enormously ambitious curator 

In further news: a report shows significant class divide in the arts; and Helen Cammock wins Max Mara art prize

Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel’s new film project, ‘Rheingold’, sends up the ethical superiority of art making versus capitalist production

Artists write about a work of art that has influenced them

The first of a new series that sees regular frieze contributors choose the best current exhibitions from their city

Mu.ZEE, Ostend & S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

The glamour days of the 1970s and ’80s Dusseldorf art scene are long since over. More than a generation on, the city seems ready for a little renaissance

Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

What are the reasons for television’s uneasy relationship to art?

What exactly do we mean when we call an artist or writer a charlatan?