Share this article via whatsapp Share this article via twitter Share this article via facebook Share this article via messenger Looking for culture? (Picture: Getty) There’s nothing quite like a city for getting your art fix. Some cities trump others though, being artier and offering more to see. Which is best is up for debate,

BerlinGetty Images 6. Berlin Berlin is a contemporary art lover’s dream. A long weekend – or an entire week, if you’ve got the stamina – can be wiled away just in the German capital’s spectacular galleries and museums. The open-air East Side Gallery houses the largest continuous section of the Berlin Wall. At the same

Cultural employment – current state and latest developments In 2022, cultural employment accounted for 3.8 % of total employment in the EU, (equal to 7.7 million people), ranging from 1.5 % in Romania to 5.4 % in the Netherlands. Overall, cultural employment accounted for a higher share of total employment in western and northern Member States than in

More than 2,000 Russian artists and other creatives have condemned the Ukraine war in the past 18 months — and many of them now live in the West.  The culture-drain began long before Russian president Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, but Russia’s new level of aggression is swelling the flow of emigration. 

While Picasso found inspiration in the primitive art of his native Spain, it was after he encountered African art in Paris that the painter completed his Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907, a revolutionary work that redefined art and propelled Cubism. In that composition, completed when he was just 26 years old, Picasso abandoned the bourgeois notions of

Just as Britain’s town centres are increasingly alike, with the presence or absence of key chains a ready reckoner of relative affluence, the Galataport is fluent in the international argot of urban regeneration. In the tradition of London’s Bankside/Tate Modern, industrial Bilbao/Guggenheim Bilbao, the Galataport/Istanbul Modern waterside development signals a free, open, modern city, ready

In Europe, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, European artists had a very strong interest in portraying Biblical accounts. Naturally, as most of these biblical anecdotes and figures relating to Christianity, Europe’s dominant faith during the medieval times, occurred in the Holy Land, artists from the continent, while many of their inscriptions were legible

Book Launch: Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe, Zdenka Badovinac in conversation with Ana Janevski  DateFebruary 15, 2019, 7pm e-flux 311 East Broadway New York, NY 10002USA Join us at e-flux to celebrate the launch of Zdenka Badovinac’s new book Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe published by ICI. The evening will feature a

Shows & Exhibitions Three exhibitions will take place in Ukraine, showing art made by displaced artists responding to life under occupation. Jo Lawson-Tancred July 28, 2023 A bystander draped in the Ukrainian flag looks at destroyed Russian military equipment at Kyiv’s “Maidan” Independence Square, that has been turned into an open-air military museum on Ukraine’s