Category: City Report
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
Issue 97 March 2006
Winnipeg
Prairie Surrealism, paddlewheel disasters, endemic sonambulism, 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'
Issue 96 January-February 2006
Beijing
The rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital
Issue 95 November-December 2005
9th Istanbul Biennial
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’
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