Dispatches

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

BY Vanessa Peterson |

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

BY Rebecca Anne Proctor |

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

BY Louisa Elderton |

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

BY Mai Sennaar |

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

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

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

BY Angel Lambo |

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

BY Evan Moffitt |

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

BY Gavin Jacobson |

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

BY Carlos Delclós |

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

BY Tom Emery |

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

BY Jonathan Griffin |

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

BY Kimberly Bradley |

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

BY Colin Siyuan Chinnery |

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

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

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

BY Phoebe Braithwaite |

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

BY Chris Fite-Wassilak |

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?

BY Ana Teixeira Pinto |

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

BY Jonathan Griffin |

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

BY Tom Jeffreys |

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

BY Ana Teixeira Pinto |