The best cities for artist other than New York??

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Permalink Reply by Seth Wulsin on November 5, 2009 at 11:28am

Buenos Aires is a great city for space and for people and for artists.
Great spirit, I highly recommend it.

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Permalink Reply by Peter M Gray on November 7, 2009 at 9:15am

Yeah Bridgeport is an interesting thought. It's like the Bronx, or Detroit, they're the final frontiers. Cheap to live and find space, but a creative neighborhood vibe is something you have to wait on. Not for the faint of heart. The great Dave Miko was from Bridgeport originally.

Bluerose28 said:

I'm going to add my hometown Bridgeport, CT because it's trying to be a place for artists, I'm begining to find cheap studios and it's 45 minutes away from New York. I find New York over rated anyway but it's a beautiful and productive city.

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Permalink Reply by Peter M Gray on November 7, 2009 at 9:26am

I think New York has some big drawbacks. While I lived there I ended up renovating beautiful lofts for a Design and Build Firm rather than living in one. I lived in a series of expensive shitholes many minutes or hours from Manhattan. I found It hard to find a sense of neighborhood in New York anymore, there's too much moving and commuting going on. I've had a better artist's life in San Francisco, New Haven, And Port Chester, NY (though it's now overbuilt and expensive). I now live near Hudson NY which is one of the best small cities for the arts I've come across. Lots of Galleries, Studios, Some Performance spaces. and a really active Arts Council. In the US you're often better off in a smaller affordable city so you actually have some time to make art.

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Permalink Reply by wal joris on November 8, 2009 at 11:39am

Consider Brussels or Antwerp in Belgium. In about 2 hours train you are either in Amsterdam, Paris or London. Idem Köln (Cologne) in Germany. There are cheap night buses (Eurolines) and fast trains to anywhere in Europe. If you are American, you will be a bit more exotic than local artists, which is always good. In Antwerp everybody understands English (not in Brussels). It's much cheaper than in Paris or London.

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Permalink Reply by Ene Bissenbakker Frederiksen on November 9, 2009 at 10:53pm

By all means - Berlin and Barcelona! Their work starts from the streets, but more importantly: The city councils do not try to oppress their creativity. It's art for everyone and art for the art's sake.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Arnold (a*) on November 13, 2009 at 9:38pm

Berlin, Germany is where you can find an amazing new art scene. It is full of fresh visionaries and a big part of today's conceptual thinking/discussion....it is also still fairly affordable to live and work there.

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on November 19, 2009 at 9:10pm

Buenos Aires - Argentina

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Permalink Reply by Ronin on November 27, 2009 at 11:38pm

downloading my 2 cents. Chicago sucks. San Fran, Seattle, LA, Amsterdam, Barcelona would all be a great option.

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Permalink Reply by Soulful Saint on December 17, 2009 at 7:13am

Its got to be Glasgow in Scotland love its new artist community online too

www.thisiscentralstation.com

Glasgow School of Art's golden age – Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian (15 December)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/15/glasgow-school-art
This year's Turner prize winner, Richard Wright, studied for his postgraduate degree at Glasgow School of Art. Fellow nominee Lucy Skaer also attended, while previous Turner winners from the school include Simon Starling and Douglas Gordon. This year, the school is celebrating the centenary of its Mackintosh Building – its staggeringly beautiful main premises in Garnethill, Glasgow, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – with a series of events and a fascinating exhibition in the Mackintosh Gallery. On until February next year, the show reveals the energy and cosmopolitanism of the school's then director Francis Henry Newbery, who masterminded the new building, hired in teachers from continental Europe and generally raised the college's game. And what of its recent tradition of turning out legions of internationally recognised British artists? Many would put that down to David Harding, who was the inspirational head of sculpture at the school until 2001.

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Permalink Reply by Yelenloud on December 30, 2009 at 5:04pm

Tel Aviv is a cool city for artists. The climate is perfect and there are always art related events going on in the city. There is an abundance of coffee shops and concerts and other things artists may need to be inspired. In terms of design work, Tel Aviv has some awesome graphic design work and industrial design. It's worth a look.

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Permalink Reply by Jim B on January 4, 2010 at 5:10am

Hello ,

Je suis Français , but the best place in Europe is probably Berlin in germany and when I'll get enought money I will go in Munich , especially the artists' quarter of Schwabing , near the English garden.
Visit Schwabing and you will stay definitively there. Probably better than Paris
I visited Kandinsky's exibition last year

Jim B

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Permalink Reply by MikeFrick on January 12, 2010 at 9:25am

Flagstaff, AZ is a small arty university town in a vast wilderness of pine trees at 7000 feet. Joe Sorren, Fred Calleri, Shonto Begay, John Running, and a bunch of other great artists have put down roots here because of the clean air, friendly people and bears, the Grand Canyon is an hour drive, LA is an hour and a half flight. And we have good coffee, decent skiing, and an East Coast Deli.

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