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From studios and galleries to residencies, artists have built the infrastructure sustaining Ghana’s flourishing contemporary art scene, stepping in where public support has failed

Glasgow has built an international reputation without relying on collectors or commercial galleries. As artists face rising rents and dwindling public support, that enviable model is coming under serious strain

Artists, galleries and institutions have laid the foundations for a thriving cultural scene. The next challenge is persuading Cork's wealth to invest closer to home

In Manila, the Philippines, the market ecology will simply collapse without the private sector due to a lack of sustainable public institution support

Santiago’s artworld operates despite a dearth of local collectors, instead relying on international visibility

Ten years after the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) and ARCOlisboa reenergised Lisbon’s artworld, has the city’s hype sustained its momentum?

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

For Uganda’s artists, precarity is generative rather than a condition to overcome