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Street artists are showing how they’d map cities differently in a new show that lets visitors step into their clandestine worlds. The drooping rags turn out to be latex, peeled from the sinuous cast-iron shields of Hector Guimard’s spectacular art nouveau entrances to the Paris Metro. They hang beside a

Photographer and artist Uldus Bakhtiozina’s photos treat us to her unique vision of Russian fairy tales. She reinterprets them in her photos by focusing on the pagans roots and ethnography of Russ Land. Her works are thoroughly detailed and immersive, and are based on comprehensive research on and comparison with

Fonts can play a powerful role in shaping the aesthetic identity of a city – and some places wishing to update their image turn to typeface design as a revitalising tool. The Dutch city of Eindhoven did just that. Whether it’s Helvetica on New York’s subway system or Gill Sans on

Carole Itter drags her shopping cart over gnarled roots and slippery rocks along the uneven oceanside trail leading from the little blue cabin on Vancouver’s North Shore to her car, a duck decoy inside the little buggy. Ms. Itter, 75, is slowly emptying the cabin where she and Al Neil have

It goes without saying that “culture” is a confusing word, this year or any year. Merriam-Webster offers six definitions for it (including the biological one, as in “bacterial culture”). The problem is that “culture” is more than the sum of its definitions. If anything, its value as a word depends

IETM and Flanders Arts Institute organise a two days Satellite meeting for policy makers and funders in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2015.  The Meeting aims to gather representatives of Ministries of Culture and Arts Councils from Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia. The discussion will focus on the different

Despite the resurgent interest in markets worldwide, public markets in many cities are under threat. The 10 Most Endangered Markets in the World will be the first list ever to call international attention to markets at risk. The list will be released in late March at the upcoming 9th International Public

Pilsen (Czech Republic) and Mons (Belgium) are the European Capitals of Culture for 2015. Pilsen will officially launch its cultural programme on 17 January and Mons on 24 January, starting a year-long programme of cultural activities which will boost local community involvement and attract participants from near and far …READ

The next rounds of secret talks for two trade deals that will put our democracy, food safety and environmental standards in the hands of corporations are about to take place in Brussels and New York. World leaders are working alongside major corporations to pass these dangerous deals — but are

The European Studies Institute of the University of Piura (Peru) and the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) invite you to the 13th «European Culture» Conference, which will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania between the 29th and the 31th of October 2015 at the Faculty of European Studies (Babeş-Bolyai University). The dialogue between

The Cultural Innovation International Prize is a biennial competition organised by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) with the aim of incentivising projects that explore the potential cultural scenarios of the coming years through research and practice. The first edition of the Prize ties in with the 20th

Modern, urban life often makes a ‘slow food’ approach to eating difficult. Urban life steers us towards food that is quick to get hold of , tasty and cheap. How we use food is deeply rooted in our cultural attitudes towards it. If we can understand what shapes our views on

Something strange happens when all the cars leave an ordinarily busy road: you start looking at it in a completely different way. Many visitors to Open Streets Bree Street commented that it was almost surreal to see the road’s cycle lanes being used in the manner in which they were

Sidewalk vending is illegal in the City of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t stop an estimated 50,000 Angelenos from setting up shop in the streets. Their highly visible presence on downtown sidewalks, around parks and stadiums, and at bus stops, metro stations, and parking lots is a bold display of civil disobedience.The Los Angeles authorities

California’s regulations governing organic food waste became more stringent on September 28, 2014, as Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1826 into law.  The law requires commercial generators of food waste to have it composted or transformed to energy via anaerobic digestion.The law will phase in starting in July 2015 on an incremental