Places

Santiago’s artworld operates despite a dearth of local collectors, instead relying on international visibility

Ten years after the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) and ARCOlisboa reenergised Lisbon’s artworld, has the city’s hype sustained its momentum?

From underfloor heating to private patronage, Riga Art Week revealed an art scene wrestling with the comforts and contradictions of post-Soviet capitalism

Sofia’s art scene has emerged largely independent, if not in opposition to, international standards. The city is slowly becoming a hub for cultural and economic retention

Art Warsaw captures the city as it tries to establish a more visible role within the Central and Eastern European artistic and cultural field

The city's art market reveals a misalignment between the perceived and actual value of artistic labour in Iceland

For Uganda’s artists, precarity is generative rather than a condition to overcome

A cluster of new galleries has emerged in the Serbian capital, despite deep-seated structural problems and concerns of an ‘urban and political facelift’

The unlikely mandate of a new prime minister raises pressing questions about the future of Japan’s art ecosystem, both domestically and internationally

Palermo experienced a surge in tourism in the 2010s on the back of the Sicilian capital’s rehabilitation as a cultural capital. Now, as the city is once again reshaped by outside forces, can its nascent art market establish a state of self-dependence?