Dispatches

With the opening of Factory International, the city endeavours to place itself firmly at the centre of the UK’s cultural scene

Six years after ISIS was defeated in Mosul, the city’s churches, mosques and museums are coming alive again

In the German capital, recent shake-ups in the museum sector offer reason for excitement and concern

In the shadow of unprecedented political unrest, the capital continues to galvanize artists around La Nuit des Galeries and introduce audiences to new talent

Kosovo makes moves to secure the long-term survival of its cultural history

The new Renzo Piano-designed art museum reopens in a city reeling from President Erdoğan’s culture wars

With the Menil Drawing Institute opening on the eve of the US midterm elections, what Houston says about the future of the country

With censorship, abductions, banned journalists and threats towards artists, the erosion of freedoms has deepened

Now open to the public, the prison, modelled on Bentham’s panopticon, gives insight into the tumultuous history of working class uprisings

The area’s development boom isn’t just in luxury property – the art scene is determined to keep its place too

Events that have pummelled Southern California’s news organizations over the past two years seem to have galvanized its local readership

While we might not see open censorship be prepared for the vilification of provocative aesthetics

Following government plans for a greener less-crowded capital, artists are finding themselves squeezed out 

A new set of policies and increased possibilities for artists’ studios mark a shift – but is it too late?

The city’s Academy of the Arts of the World embraces 'pluriversality' as a counter to an increasingly toxic discourse around migration

If we want a diversity of art spaces we need to vote with our feet

With Art Cologne acquiring abc – art berlin contemporary, what can be expected from the new fair Art Berlin? And what will become of Gallery Weekend?

From growing protests over the gentrification of Boyle Heights to Schimmel leaving Hauser & Wirth, the latest from a mobilizing LA art scene

If politics today obsesses over the policing of borders, art in France is enacting multiple crossings

Nativism and the backlash against contemporary art: AfD, Pegida and a recent protest in Dresden