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                <language>en</language><item><title>Hungary | Orbán makes an exhibition of himself (SME, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1487771-orban-makes-exhibition-himself</link><description><![CDATA[Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-paintings.jpg" length="149905" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:02:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Athens Biennale, the crisis as art (Expressen, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1224511-athens-biennale-crisis-art</link><description><![CDATA[In a country destabilised by the crisis, the 3rd Athens Biennale contemporary art festival has been largely overlooked. However, a Swedish journalist argues that the exhibition offers an opportunity to appreciate the urgency of the moment. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Biennale-athens.JPG" length="83129" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:30:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ideas | Never mind the cave paintings, here's the Sex Pistols (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1215781-never-mind-cave-paintings-here-s-sex-pistols</link><description><![CDATA[Is the graffiti left by the 1970’s punk band in London as worthy of humanity as prehistoric cave art? A British archeologist believes so, seeing on these walls the end of faith in &quot;human progress&quot; initiated by our ancestors. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/wall-art_2_0.jpg" length="41368" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:00:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Instant repatriation for national artworks</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/688591-instant-repatriation-national-artworks</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;State repatriates artworks amid ownership fears,&rdquo; headlines Lidov&eacute; noviny. On 31 May, following the seizure of several paintings by authorities in France and Austria, the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-Noviny-01062011-100.jpg" length="40202" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:28:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Museums | Antwerp bets on the MAS (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/666121-antwerp-bets-mas</link><description><![CDATA[Inaugurated on 17 May, Antwerp’s new metropolitan museum has become a talking point for its architecture. But will it, as its designers have hoped, bring lasting change to the Flemish city? Planner and columnist Filip Canfyn is not convinced. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/antwerp-mas.jpg" length="35948" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:29:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Museums | See Da Vinci in 4 min. 17 sec.? (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/661281-see-da-vinci-4-min-17-sec</link><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time the visitor to a museum who only glanced at the canvases was a laughing stock. Now he must be hurried on through – anything else would clog the turnstiles. England’s art world is getting into the fast food business, laments Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Da-vinci-exhibition_1.jpg" length="53047" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 16:34:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Contemporary art | Fundamentalists attack Christ artwork</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/604011-fundamentalists-attack-christ-artwork</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Whackos hammer Piss Christ,&rdquo; headlines Lib&eacute;ration,  in the wake of the destruction of a photograph showing a plastic  crucifix submerged in urine by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Liberation-18042011-100.jpg" length="41500" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:20:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A city in Europe | Nostalgia for Bucharest&#039;s golden age (Dilema Veche, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/598051-nostalgia-bucharests-golden-age</link><description><![CDATA[Nicknamed &quot;Little Paris&quot;, the Romanian capital is getting a little uglier every day, carved up by building sites that are as mammoth as they are meaningless. But some parts of the town have retained their charm, and it wouldn’t take much to give the city a human face. The architect Teodor Frolu reports. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bucharest2.jpg" length="186970" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:12:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Architecture | Souto de Moura wins Pritzker Prize</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/573761-souto-de-moura-wins-pritzker-prize</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Portuguese architecture&rsquo;s triumph&quot;, exults P&uacute;blico, honouring the Oporto architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of 2011 Pritzker Prize &ndash; architecture&rsquo;s highest distinction. The first Portuguese [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/publico-29032011-100.jpg" length="36783" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:03:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the week | The riddle of Princess Hijab (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/386601-riddle-princess-hijab</link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of heated debates about national identity and burqa bans, French graffiti artist Princess Hijab’s ad-busting interventions on Paris metro fashion ads now have a worldwide audience. But who is she? And does it matter if she’s not even a she? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Princess-hijab.jpg" length="72771" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Exhibitions | Art - the bigger the better (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/366021-art-bigger-better</link><description><![CDATA[An immense inflatable mannequin, thousands of empty cans, a 17-metre high tower: several of the works currently on display in Belgium point to the trend for gigantism in contemporary art. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/art-inflatable.jpg" length="17822" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:08:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Counterfeiting | Fake is absolutely fabulous (The Daily Telegraph, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/330171-fake-absolutely-fabulous</link><description><![CDATA[A new European Union-funded report has declared that buying counterfeited designer goods can benefit consumers and the companies whose brands are being ripped off. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Fake.jpg" length="92867" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:35:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Crime | The art thieves stalking Europe (International Herald Tribune, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/325131-art-thieves-stalking-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a whispered concern in France for years, but two events here are forcing the issue into the open. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/art-theft.jpg" length="37658" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:00:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Art world | Ego-seums are coming to Europe (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/280831-ego-seums-are-coming-europe</link><description><![CDATA[A rift is emerging in the European art scene: as public establishments languish under budget cuts, private museums are booming. But the latter are generally showcases for self-serving oligarchs, warns the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Museums, places where our society portrays and projects itself, may be becoming an endangered species. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Olafur_Eliasson_02.jpg" length="33515" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:28:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Exhibition | From east to west, art remains political (Dilema Veche, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/276271-east-west-art-remains-political</link><description><![CDATA[In Paris the &quot;Les Promesses du Passé&quot; (Promises of the past) exhibition examines the development of artistic creation and the continuing ambition to change the world in a Europe marked by the Iron Curtain and the East-West divide. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Endre-Tot.jpg" length="58737" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:52:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Modern art goes to the provinces</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/249281-modern-art-goes-provinces</link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#039;s inauguration of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France will mark&nbsp;&quot;the first ever decentralisation of a major cultural institution in France,&quot; reports&nbsp;La Croix. At the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/La-croix-11052010.JPG" length="34832" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:01:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the Week | Antonio Presti, anti-Mafia patron of the arts (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/237201-antonio-presti-anti-mafia-patron-arts</link><description><![CDATA[For 30 years this Sicilian entrepreneur has been lavishing the bulk of his fortune on artistic projects. Defying convention, corruption and the Cosa Nostra, he seeks to &quot;help people respect their patch” and “rediscover their identity&quot; through art. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Antonio-Presti.jpg" length="102938" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:51:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Photography | Quest for Europe's natural treasures (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/231181-quest-europe-s-natural-treasures</link><description><![CDATA[For over a year, 69 photographers were sent out on “The Great Quest” for Europe’s flora and fauna. The object of project Wild Wonders of Europe: to reveal the continent’s biodiversity to the world. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/eagle-water.jpg" length="27578" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:22:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Architecture | Scaling down on starchitects (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/225561-scaling-down-starchitects</link><description><![CDATA[The days of ostentatious architecture by star architects are at an end. Under the influence of the economic crisis, budgets have been pared down and vast projects have been set aside to be replaced by more modest buildings. A positive change, which will force architects to seek solutions to problems that they themselves have helped to create, argues director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Ole Bouman. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/canal-house.jpg" length="39281" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:22:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Denmark | Ni Hao Little Mermaid</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/218721-ni-hao-little-mermaid</link><description><![CDATA[The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen&#039;s most visited monument, is set to leave her rock facing the port of Copenhagen for a trip to Shanghai, where she [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100326politiken.jpg" length="6715" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:05:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Peter Stuyvesant artwork makes a packet</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/206191-peter-stuyvesant-artwork-makes-packet</link><description><![CDATA[On 8 March, 163 works of modern art by artists such as&nbsp;Appel, Corneille, Santomaso&nbsp;and&nbsp;Morellet &ndash; which used to grace the walls of the Peter Stuyvesant [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100309volkskrant.jpg" length="7230" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:47:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | The Ruhr - from coal to culture (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/204081-ruhr-coal-culture</link><description><![CDATA[The Ruhr region has seen the rise and fall of the coal industry in the space of 170 years. Now, during its stint as 2010 European Capital of Culture, it aims to complete its modernisation process. But its cities are running out of funds, reports Der Spiegel. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/zollverein.jpg" length="49700" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:53:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Communication | Europe doesn&#039;t have to look cheesy (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/182141-europe-doesnt-have-look-cheesy</link><description><![CDATA[Brussels is the source of numerous poorly designed communications. On the Internet, and in brochures and logos, European institutions appear to be incapable of showing any imagination. A Dutch journalist makes the case for making more frequent calls to creative professionals, with interesting results. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/EU-logos.jpg" length="147096" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:21:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | Fine art of virtual museums (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/179611-fine-art-virtual-museums</link><description><![CDATA[The success of the Tate Britain website has shown how the Internet can promote collections and stored works in major museums and attract a new generation of visitors. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/francis-bacon-virtual-exhibition_1.jpg" length="120890" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:30:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Denmark | Muhammad caricaturist for Haiti</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/174021-muhammad-caricaturist-haiti</link><description><![CDATA[Danish public television channel TV2 has asked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, author of the controversial Muhammad caricatures in 2005, to produce a drawing to be auctioned [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Jyllands-Posten-21012010.JPG" length="44944" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:41:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Rebuilding the forbidden city (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/163781-rebuilding-forbidden-city</link><description><![CDATA[On the immense site of what was once the &quot;Philips forbidden city,&quot; work is underway to build a new neighbourhood. The development plan, the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, will bring new life to a town that has always identified itself with the electronics group. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Strijp-s.JPG" length="128388" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:48:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Giving the Velvet Revolution the finger</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/142411-giving-velvet-revolution-finger</link><description><![CDATA[The people of Prague who turned out to leave candles commemorating the end of the Communist regime hardly saw anything but the flickering flames. But [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091123-tyden.jpg" length="6643" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:37:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>After &amp;quot;89 | Wall comes down in Big Apple</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/135381-wall-comes-down-big-apple</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The &lsquo;autumn of nations&rsquo;, as the 1989 revolutions have been nicknamed, that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, is the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Cotidianul-111109.jpg" length="46559" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fashion | High-tech and ethically right-on (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/132431-high-tech-and-ethically-right</link><description><![CDATA[In 2030, we may well be wearing clothes that offer a new level of physical well-being by adapting to the ambient temperature, and at the same time, respect our political convictions. Cafebabel.com reports on a heady blend of technology and ideology. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mode-ethique.jpg" length="139097" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Art | Getting to know the real Van Gogh</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/109841-getting-know-real-van-gogh</link><description><![CDATA[After 15 years&rsquo; research into Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s letters, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Huygens Institute in The Hague are now putting [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/trouw-091005.jpg" length="7033" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:01:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Old masters | Antwerp identifies lost Rembrandt</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/71271-antwerp-identifies-lost-rembrandt</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The painting has been there since 1886, but it is only now that the&nbsp;Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp&nbsp;is 100% sure: the portrait of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/de-morgen-cultuur-090806.jpg" length="7054" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:26:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Contemporary art | Venice Biennale, a geopolitical carnival (Télérama, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/67141-venice-biennale-geopolitical-carnival</link><description><![CDATA[Despite being one of the most prestigious shows in the international contemporary art calendar, the Venice Biennale does not attract a great deal of local support in the City of the Doges. Now that guest countries have co-opted it as a pretext to display wealth and influence, French weekly Télérama argues that the event&#039;s significance is increasingly geopolitical rather than artistic. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/biennale-venise.jpg" length="158760" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:43:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Profile | Notes from the cartoon underground (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/62541-notes-cartoon-underground</link><description><![CDATA[Italian cartoonist Gianluca Costantini&#039;s work is ever-changing. Founder of the Kamikaze Festival for cartoonists and editor of Inguine Mah!gazine, he explains to cafebabel.com about trials and tribulations of an artist&#039;s life both in the underground and mainstream. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/gianluca-consantini.jpg" length="68198" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cultural heritage | Acropolis now (Kathimerini, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/32781-acropolis-now</link><description><![CDATA[June 20, Athens inaugurates with great fanfare the New Acropolis Museum. This avant garde building has provoked controversy and has reignited the long running dispute between Greece and Britain about the ownership of the Elgin Marbles. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/musee-acropole_18.jpg" length="47899" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:17:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Exhibition | Artist genitals beat Venice censor</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/28881-artist-genitals-beat-venice-censor</link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is sweet. An exhibition entitled &quot;100 artists&#039; genitals&quot; by Belgian artist Jacques Charlie, banned by the recent Venice Biennale, will be finally up and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:47:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Art controversy | Czech chuckle at cheeky Černý</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/27631-czech-chuckle-cheeky-cerny</link><description><![CDATA[From having caused a great deal of controversy, Entropa no longer shocks anyone. The work of Czech artist David Čern&yacute;, an illustration of the EU [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:10:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Musées | Like art? I&#039;ll need some ID</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/9691-art-ill-need-some-id</link><description><![CDATA[Since April 4th, entrance to museums and national monuments in France is free for the under 26s&hellip;as long as they&rsquo;re EU citizens.&nbsp; SOS Racisme has [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:43:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
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