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Category: City Report

Issue 119 Nov-Dec 2008

Naples

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

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