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Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

In front | ANALYSIS
Making a cut forty years on (Photo: Boris Svartzman)

On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images

by Boris Svartzman // 22/08/08

PICTURES
Santa Cruz snapshot (Photo: Bénedicte Salzes)

Photos: Santa Cruz life-size in Seville

The district of Santa Cruz in the old centre is like a miniature Spain colourfully displayed by the numerous rare buildings of such imposing beauty. A genuine museum of Hispanic folklore

by bndicte salzes // 10/06/08

FEATURE

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

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

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 18/03/08

PICTURES

Photos: Europe sprays ideas

From Madrid to Bucharest, Europe's streets of art are bursting with creativity and new talents

by Cédric Audinot // 05/03/08

PICTURES

Photos: living on the street in Paris

The homeless and immigrants - those select few that Parisians would perhaps rather not see, at least at Christmas time. Neither indifference nor presidential words will make this 'problem' disappear

by Jorge Alexandre Pereira // 06/02/08

PANORAMA

Who are Lisbon's contemporary artists?

Who’s selling? Who’s buying? Who’s organising? Run-down of the unjustified creative pessimism in the Portuguese capital

by Nikos Chrisikakis // 12/12/07

INTERVIEW
The 65 year old was born in Milan (Photo: Oliviero Toscani Studio)

Censoring Oliviero Toscani

'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'

by Elisa Marengo // 29/11/07

REVIEW

November pick of Europe's best culture events

From Helsinki avant-garde cinema to factory fairs in Switzerland, your guide on where to be a culture vulture this month

by Abla Kandalaft // 02/11/07

AGENDA

September culture vulture

Basel dances, Barcelona premieres the best international short films and four cultures head the dialogue in ód, Poland – our monthly cultural calendar

by Jannik Pfister // 31/08/07

Well and truly Lynched (Photo: Max Hidalgo)

Lynch’s Empire

After the release of his latest film Inland Empire, the 'Air is on Fire' in Paris - an exhibition revealing David Lynch's disturbing world

by Max Hidalgo // 12/03/07

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