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Small money, big things: four film and art initiatives in Kosovo

('Jovana Zivkovic',) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:34:24 -0000

The economic climate ensures the making of only one film financed by centre for cinematography per year, whilst exhibition opportunities are spare. Young Kosovars are working where they believe they can help – in society, with ordinary people

WAMP: inside the monthly Hungarian design fair

('Sarah Truesdale',) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:15:00 -0000

Since 2006, the monthly design market has attracted hundreds of young local designers like 'Musu' who display their creations in front of an ever-growing crowd of visitors. But WAMP is not only a collective promotion of Hungarian design, it’s also a formidable economic catalyst, with its international design week too

David Cerny: 'president Klaus is a d**k'

('Hanna Sankowska',) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0000

We met the politically engaged sculptor, 40, in 2007. Labelled by many as 'the scandal maker', he is back in 2009 to pinpoint the Czech presidency of the EU with his installation of national stereotypes at the European parliament, alleged to be a hoax

Laura Cesana: 'There should be more Erasmus programmes for teachers'

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

A linguist and voyager, the Italian painter transported her Jewish origins from the United States to Portugal, where her multiple identities are exhibited by a flourishing brushstroke

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract

1000 and more: Europe's young designers

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Magazines in auction rooms, high consumption in the art market - trend review

Gonzalo Conradi: 'Squatting is a very healthy activity'

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0000

We tag along with the Spanish artist, 31. A product of the Erasmus experience, he prepares his pictures for an exhibition gracing the Andalucian Centre of Flamenco in Jerez, Cadiz

Who are Lisbon's contemporary artists?

('Sophie Paterson',) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Who’s selling? Who’s buying? Who’s organising? Run-down of the unjustified creative pessimism in the Portuguese capital, from Culturgest, ZDB and

Censoring Oliviero Toscani

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0000

'In art transgression is a duty,' says the Italian photographer, author of the latest shock campaign with French anorexic model Isabelle Caro. 'Brussels don't want to know a thing about my European vision'

Factories of culture: forging new from old

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

All over Europe, former industrial buildings are being rebuilt as centres of culture. Residents cherish the special charm of these old factories

WIELS: artful brewing

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

On May 25, Brussels’ largest contemporary art centre will open its doors in what was once the Wielemans-Ceuppen Brewery, close to Midi Station

Rome wasn’t built in a day

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

How does the ‘Eternal City’ juggle the need to preserve its past with the equally important need to construct its future?

‘Santral Istanbul’, factory art

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:21:00 -0000

In the run-up to becoming European cultural capital in 2010, Istanbul reveals its artistic talents

Valérie Favre, acrylic performer

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0000

Valérie Favre, 47, is a Swiss artist working in Berlin. For her, painting is an out-dated medium which still offers interesting possibilites.

Wolfgang Stranziger, the eye catcher

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:54:00 -0000

Visionary bohemian, shrewd artist or cool businessman? The Austrian Wolfgang Stranziger, 36 years old, lomography founder, discusses the ‘fortuitous’ beginnings of his empire of snappy, zany photography

Painting Congolese history: Tshibumba Kanda Matulu

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Amid the clichés of contemporary media coverage, the paintings of Tshibumba Kanda Matulu offer an unparalleled opportunity to understand the hopes and fears underlying the history of the Congo