Category: City Report
Issue 124 June-August 2009
Dublin
Despite the decline of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy, Dublin’s artist-run and institutional spaces are thriving
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
Issue 119 November-December 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
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 June-August 2007
São Paulo
São Paulo city report
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









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