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An art biennial in a pandemic? How Latvia’s RIBOCA2 embraced Covid-19 as its co-curator

An art biennial in a pandemic? How Latvia’s RIBOCA2 embraced Covid-19 as its co-curator

6 subversive Russian artists battling power, capitalism, and catastrophe

6 subversive Russian artists battling power, capitalism, and catastrophe

Why a Belgrade art gallery is exhibiting the diaries of Yugoslav war criminal Ratko Mladić

Why a Belgrade art gallery is exhibiting the diaries of Yugoslav war criminal Ratko Mladić

Step into the outlandish world of wearable carpet sculptures, where Slavic mythical characters come alive

Step into the outlandish world of wearable carpet sculptures, where Slavic mythical characters come alive

Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art to use empty exhibition space for an arthouse film

Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art to use empty exhibition space for an arthouse film

12 era-defining artworks that trace shifting perspectives in modern Bulgaria

12 era-defining artworks that trace shifting perspectives in modern Bulgaria

What will the ‘new normal’ look like for contemporary art?

What will the ‘new normal’ look like for contemporary art?

Beyond the periphery: the neurodivergent outsider artists challenging Russia’s creative mainstream

Beyond the periphery: the neurodivergent outsider artists challenging Russia’s creative mainstream

This Bosnian-British artist is fighting to keep the experience of child refugees alive  

This Bosnian-British artist is fighting to keep the experience of child refugees alive  

Beyond borders: how today’s Ukrainian artists are setting their sights on the world

Beyond borders: how today’s Ukrainian artists are setting their sights on the world

Red subversions: meet the North Macedonian artist reinterpreting her country’s past

Red subversions: meet the North Macedonian artist reinterpreting her country’s past

Can contemporary art heal wartime trauma? Meet the curator fighting for culture in Nagorno-Karabakh

Can contemporary art heal wartime trauma? Meet the curator fighting for culture in Nagorno-Karabakh

As Budapest’s only feminist and LGBTQ-friendly art space, FERi gallery is a liberal island in conservative waters

As Budapest’s only feminist and LGBTQ-friendly art space, FERi gallery is a liberal island in conservative waters

Why 70s art provocateur Maria Pinińska-Bereś is still so relevant in today’s Poland

Why 70s art provocateur Maria Pinińska-Bereś is still so relevant in today’s Poland

Estonia's latest art centre is opening in secret Imperial Russian submarine plant

Estonia’s latest art centre is opening in secret Imperial Russian submarine plant

33 artists reimagine Moscow’s coat of arms for the 21st century

33 artists reimagine Moscow’s coat of arms for the 21st century

Rus Khasanov’s mesmerising paint droplets appear effortless — but take months of work

Rus Khasanov’s mesmerising paint droplets appear effortless — but take months of work

Why one Ukrainian artist is turning the scraps of a Soviet factory into second hand clothes

Why one Ukrainian artist is turning the scraps of a Soviet factory into second hand clothes