This is the richest area of Germany, and it has a buoyant cultural life; but the expense of it is beginning to drive the artists out

The new director of Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art is self taught (he trained as an optician), curator of the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and passionately involved in contemporary art

As director of this centre for arts and media technology, Peter Weibel, says that media art can be more politically engaged because it relates to the new technologies and the new economic order

The director of the world’s top modern and contemporary art fair prides himself on the new talent it has discovered

The deputy editorship of Die Zeit newspaper and a better pension prove too tempting for Michael Naumann