TAG

2006.7.5　 Text: Ania Markham

A long-established name in Den Haag, Concrete opened its new Amsterdam store back in May. Situated on Spuistraat, the store also provides an excellent additional space for TAG, the platform for contemporary visual cul...

CLUSTER BERLIN

2006.7.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

From the collapse of the wall ten years ago to the present, it is said that the frontier of the Berlin art scene has moved to the area of Augststrasse on the periphery of the Mitte. Some commercial Galleries moved al...

FREITAG

2006.6.30　 Text: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graf

In 1993 the brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag founded FREITAG. Legend has it that they were inspired by the heavy traffic that hummed through Zurich in front of their shared flat, in transit from Hamburg in Germany t...

THE LAB

2006.5.5　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

Shanghai's independent pop culture scene has been undergoing something of a transformation recently. First, the alternative DJ monthly The Antidote hit grimy Dingxi Lu, giving mavericks and weirdos a place to hang ou...

SECRET WEST

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In this project, three groups of artists occupy a part of the residence of freelance curators, Barbara Buchmaier and Jin Lie, as an exhibition space will be held during the Berlin Biennial The first exhibit...

HEADLANDS CENTER FOR ARTS

2006.5.5　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

The north side of the Golden Gate Bridge is a tourist mecca - classic San Francisco post card material. Just beyond the tourists there is a quiet and serene valley which was once used by the military during the world ...

MOZART HOUSE

2006.2.5　 Text: Christina Merl

© Mozart 2006 January 2006. The atmosphere in the snow-covered city of Vienna is tense. While a court ruling forces Austria to return five paintings by Gustav Klimt to the legitimate heir of a Jewish family,...

SALADESTAR

2006.2.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Starting the year 2001 a group of friends get together to clean, reform and re-adapt what later will become one of the most emerging independent cultural space in Barcelona. Located in a old bakery house in Gracia's n...

TOMAMU ICE VILLAGE

2006.2.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Shimukappu Village is one of the coldest areas in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. There is a big resort called Alpha Resort in Tomamu, Shimukappu. It's not unusual this time of year for days to get severel...

PLATONIQ

2006.1.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Platoniq is a Barcelona based group of cultural producers, curators and software developers. Platoniq's main interest are community building tools, social software and networked strategies for public spaces. Platoniq ...

ALBANY BULB

2006.1.4　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

Entering the Albany Bulb feels a little like trespassing on private property. The paths are not paved or clearly defined like other bay-side parks – it's raw, overgrown, and strewn with industrial refuse. As yo...

HABITUS

2005.12.4　 Text: Samantha Culp

Going to Habitus, a "designed space" owned by renown Hong Kong artist and designer Kith Tsang Tak Ping, feels like a form of time travel. One must first follow the antique tram-car tracks from one of Sheung Wan's MTR ...