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Despite a growing local commercial scene and a major retrospective of Nigerian Modernism at Tate in London, Nigeria's largest city has yet to prove the durability of its art market.
Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed.

Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?

Twenty years on, the Nintendo Wii’s gesture-based games feel less like a gimmick than a rehearsal – training a generation to perform for, and be interpreted by, machines

Television once controlled what viewers watched and when. As screens multiply, artists are revisiting its influence