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From underfloor heating to private patronage, Riga Art Week revealed an art scene wrestling with the comforts and contradictions of post-Soviet capitalism

Sofia’s art scene has emerged largely independent, if not in opposition to, international standards. The city is slowly becoming a hub for cultural and economic retention

Art Warsaw captures the city as it tries to establish a more visible role within the Central and Eastern European artistic and cultural field

The city's real-estate boom is fuelling an influx of new exhibition spaces and mega-museums, but also reflects an awkward dance between the government, corporates and the arts in the capital

The city's art market reveals a misalignment between the perceived and actual value of artistic labour in Iceland

A cluster of new galleries has emerged in the Serbian capital, despite deep-seated structural problems and concerns of an ‘urban and political facelift’

The unlikely mandate of a new prime minister raises pressing questions about the future of Japan’s art ecosystem, both domestically and internationally

Palermo experienced a surge in tourism in the 2010s on the back of the Sicilian capital’s rehabilitation as a cultural capital. Now, as the city is once again reshaped by outside forces, can its nascent art market establish a state of self-dependence?

Angelle Siyang-Li outlines a route through Hong Kong away from Art Basel, from the best local restaurants to the galleries, neighbourhoods and escapes that shape the city's cultural life

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