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Verena Gerlach: 'font design is a very white male heterosexual field'
Berlin is the inspiration behind the German font designer’s creations, so we meet the 38-year-old there. We talk type, women, men and originality
art, typography, men and women, berlin, design, history, brunch
Tribute to Polish poster designer Franciszek Starowieyski
On 23 February 2009, Poland said goodbye to one of its most prominent artists, who died aged 79 in Warsaw. Here, we republish an extract of an interview with the award-winning painter and stage designer, aka ‘Jan Byk’
art, painting, obituary, graphics, contemporary art, culture
Miss Marion: the French burlesque star will 'tease you until you die'
The 32-year-old from Normandy performs a 'slowed-down' version of burlesque. A dance historically popular in eras of depression, her latest show updates the genre, combining nipple tassels and an iPhone - an accessible escape for Europeans in recession
In Buzescu, Roma architecture is surreal real estate
We clatter by train through Romania to the small village where the former nomadic Roma are building palaces they design themselves in the middle of Wallachia – with neither consent nor plans. Feature
MasturbArt with David Cerny in Brussels
With touches of political incorrectness and impudence, the iconoclastic Czech artist is teaching tourists in Brussels about European geography. His 'Entropa' installation - which cost £350, 000 - sends up European stereotypes, and remains a hot topic amongst politicians and the inquisitive
President-elect Obama: the US changes
History was marked on 4 November. With 52% of the popular vote, the Americans clearly chose the 47-year-old senator of Illinois to be the 44th president of the United States. Perspectives, as the widescreen bows George W. Bush out and Obama campaign fever peaks in the Paris fashion and Barcelona art worlds. Plus a voice for defeated rival, John McCain
- Read the special edition President-elect Obama: the US changes
- Press review: why is Barack Obama so popular in Europe?
- Videos: Sarah Palin, from porn films to Pakistani compliments
- ‘W’ by Oliver Stone: what about Europe's improbable leaders?
- Videos: bye Bush, bye to an eight-year tragicomedy
- Europeans can expect a John McCain victory
- Barack Obama inspires art and fashion in Paris and Barcelona
Liz Solo: art on Second Life
Taunting performances and installations on the edge – in pixels. We meet the Canadian musician in the virtual 3D world
art, second life, latin america, animation, internet, europe, culture
Gunther von Hagens: ‘An anatomical exposition without publicity is like a theatre without a programme’
The 'plastinator' often hits European headlines with his 'Body Worlds' exhibition. Of course he will be having his own body plastinated, he says - interview
art, exposition, berlin, gunther von hagens, körperwelten, germany, death
Art: from Polish porn to Belgian faeces machines
Does art have to be beautiful? Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Five portraits of artists who dabble along the limits of aesthetics, morality and comfort zone to constantly try and provoke society
Borderline? Art on the scales
How far can art go? What taboos remain? Art often both fascinates and disgusts, in an attempt at containing cultural boundaries
Katarzyna Kozyra: plastic penises and ribbon vaginas
The Polish sculptor, video and installation artist, 45, probes the theme of the body as a costume - what it is like to be a ‘real woman’?
art, warsaw, poland, interview, central and eastern europe, culture
Günther von Hagens: dead bodies 'Plastinator'
The German anatomist has created quite a furore with his ‘Body Worlds’ exhibition throughout Europe. Since November 2006, visitors to the Plastinarium workshop in Guben have observed how corpses are plasticised
art, feature, germany, interview, central and eastern europe, death, culture
'Sarkozy or YouTube 3.0?' in Bologna
Better processors, improved data management possibilities integrated into consoles. Report from the 'Future Film Festival' in Italy
art, festivals, identity, technology, european union, bologna, multiculturalism
1000 and more: Europe's young designers
Magazines in auction rooms, high consumption in the art market - trend review
art, purchasing power, art market, international trade, economy, museum, european commission
Didier Awadi: 'Artists too often have big egos'
The Senegalese hip hop pioneer, 38, invites his fellow rappers to speak out and campaign for a harmonious continent with his latest album 'Presidents of Africa'. Plus an exclusive video interview from Dakar
art, senegal, racism, brunch, discrimination, illegal immigrants, development
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