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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

Issue 99 May 2006

Beirut

Fifteen years after the end of the civil war Lebanon’s capital buzzes with a potent mix of ideologies, politics and art by Tirdad Zolghadr and Tony Chakar

Issue 97 March 2006

Winnipeg

Prairie Surrealism, paddlewheel disasters, endemic somnambulism, honeybee collaborations, hockey and hairdryers: more is going on in the Great White North than anyone suspected. A report from the city supposedly chosen by the London Times four years running as ‘the world capital of sorrow’. by Robert Enright and Guy Maddin

Issue 96 January-February 2006

Beijing

The rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital by Waling Boers and Pi Li

Issue 95 November-December 2005

Istanbul

Including the work of 53 artists and artist-groups and held in spaces as varied as a vacant office building, a former tobacco warehouse and a run-down apartment block, the low-key and locally engaged 9th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, was simply titled ‘Istanbul’ by Jörg Heiser, Erden Kosova and Jan Verwoert

Issue 93 September 2005

Singapore

Singapore is a notoriously conservative country with few independent art spaces, however, in recent years the government has invested in the establishment of an art museum and a National Arts Council. In 2006 the capital hosted its first international visual arts biennial by Dominic Eichler and Ong Keng Sen

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