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Category: City Report

Issue 128 January-February 2010

Ramallah

Life as an artist, writer or curator in an occupied city – the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority in the central West Bank by Khaled Hourani, T.Z. Toukan and Daniel Miller

Issue 124 June-August 2009

Dublin

Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving by Brian Dillon and Maeve Connolly

Issue 122 April 2009

Tel Aviv

Israel’s second largest city is known as ‘the bubble’ for its air of detachment from political turmoil, its hedonism, cosmopolitanism and vibrant art scene by Nuit Banai, Eyal Danon and Galit Eilat

Issue 119 Nov-Dec 2008

Despite massive problems including organized crime, a chaotic infrastructure and an inability to deal with its rubbish, Naples offers much in the way of a thriving contemporary art scene, breathtaking architecture and extraordinary food by Jörg Heiser, Mario Codognato and Pádraig Timoney

Issue 117 September 2008

Paris

Forty years since the events of May 1968, Paris is plagued by unemployment, inﬂation and suburban unrest. Yet despite the city’s troubles and persistent clichés about its cultural life, a community of small independent art collectives and spaces is thriving by Vivian Rehberg and Cristina Ricupero

Issue 115 May 2008

Melbourne

From frontier town to multicultural metropolis, the second-largest Australian city embraces a grass-roots approach to culture that weaves the experience of contemporary art into everyday life by Max Delany and Nicola Harvey

Issue 112 January-February 2008

Brussels

Why have so many foreign artists moved to the Belgian capital? Is it the cheap rents and sardonic humour, Art Nouveau treasures and postwar architectural eyesores – or the fact that it spent much of 2007 without a government? by Aaron Schuster and Vivian Rehberg

Issue 108 Jun-Aug 2007

Sao Paulo

With more than 20 million inhabitants, São Paulo has recently become one of the world’s first ‘hypercities’. In a constant state of transformation, the city has fostered an attitude of improvisation, resourcefulness and cultural cannibalism amongst its artists by Ana Paula Cohen and James Trainor

Issue 104 January-February 2007

Tokyo

Having experienced the extremes of postwar boom and economic crash, Japan continues to face new challenges. Across the vast, high-density sprawl of Tokyo, young Japanese artists are finding different ways in which to respond to both the local and international art scenes by Dan Fox and Mami Kataoka

Issue 102 October 2006

Milan and Turin

As artistic capitals of postwar Italy, Milan and Turin are expressions of a modern and progressive culture – despite having developed almost contradictory attitudes towards it by Luca Cerizza and Massimiliano Gioni

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