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“Les empreintes créatives”: ZCCE’s report on the ICC in Geneva.

On June 13th, ZCCE's has released its long-awaited report on the creative and cultural industries, or ICC, in Geneva. The presentation of this report and the press conference that took place, in the presence of Sami Kanaan, "deputy mayor" of Geneva or "Conseiller administratif", in charge of the Department of Culture and Digital Transition, concluded a year of research by…

Frédéric MartelJune 26, 2023

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Voice of Russia

A review of the book Russia Today, un média au service de l’État russe, written by Maxime Audinet. Today, with the war in Ukraine, RT has found itself under European sanctions, and many personalities linked to this structure, such as Margarita Simonian, are under international sanctions. In this 2021 book, written before the 2022’s war, Audinet attempts to tell the…

Dilan RadjibJune 18, 2023

Analysis Cultural-Policies

Philanthropy and the Creatives – a new dynamic yet to be shaped

English I Focus on cultural policy: Philanthropy and the Creatives - a new dynamic yet to be shapedPrivate foundations and arts and culture have always been intertwined. Both areas have undergone majordevelopments in recent past. The foundation sector is increasingly being professionalized; arts and culture have broken out from their bubble into other fields of society and economy, creating thereby…

Carole Guertler, lic. phil. I / MASMay 30, 2023

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Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Creative Destruction and Other Rituals

Contemporary art is much decried. Using Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst as their main villains and only examples, countless essayists and pamphleteers have castigated the direction in which modern art has moved and continue to denounce its futility. The radical right is sickened by the pretensions of woke or eco-leftist artists, while the extreme left ironizes art that is created…

Frédéric MartelMay 27, 2023