Renowned street artist designs poker playing cards, taking advantage of the growing popularity of poker. Much like street art and graffiti, poker is quickly gaining acceptance in the mainstream Street artists often find themselves to be of divided opinions when it…
I was first drawn to Serbia solely because I wanted to trace my family history. However, I quickly found a people, history and landscape so vibrant and nuanced that they beckoned me closer and then pulled me in so tight…
The best of Estonian fashion scene hits the British capital this week as part of BFC’s International Fashion Showcase from Feb 15-19 Presenting the work of four breakout Estonian designers under the umbrella of an experiential fictional Ministry designed and…
Feb 15-19, The Horse Hospital, London WC1N 1JD The best of Estonian fashion scene hits the British capital this week as part of BFC’s International Fashion Showcase. Presenting the work of four breakout Estonian designers under the umbrella of an…
The anonymous Slovenian meme-art collective Smetnjak shows no respect to some canonical figures of mainstream art and philosophy, from Marina Abramović to Žižek. But who will have the last laugh? Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest pretender of…
What do Russian businessmen see in contemporary art? This year’s Vienna International Art Fair – The New Contemporary, gathered 122 galleries from 26 countries, in four days in September. The event’s artistic directors, Christina Steinbrecher (Kazakhstan) and Vita Zaman (Lithuania),…
This Saturday, September 8th, the doors of the half-charred, half-deserted Boris and Ramiz sports hall in Prishtina will be open to the public for a series of artistic performances and installations entitled “PRISHTINE – mon amour” Like many formerly important…
The controversial Bulgarian fashion editorial featuring images of beaten and disfigured models caused an outpour of contempt across the Internet. Is it ‘art’ or mere sexploitation? Titled ‘Victim of Beauty’, the editorial of Bulgarian 12 Magazine features models with facial…
The Slovenian TMIA collective invites you to give away your password to a public online gallery. Apparently, it’s all about privacy and trust What will it take to put your online accounts’ passwords out in the open? Would you have…
Each of the fifty-two stuffed toy donkeys in Sanja Ivekovic’s installation at dOCUMENTA 13 is labeled with names of historical political figures, from Rosa Luxembourg and Martin Luther King to Che Guevara and Ahmed Basiony of the Arab Spring. Halfway…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
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Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republ...
JDX Backstage at EXIT 2011 
The real Croatian hipsters (Split 1980s) A piece of street history from Split, Croatia 1985 showing a high awareness of popular fashion of the time. Not much different from what...
