Pécs: Exhilarating Istanbul, the bombastic Ruhr Valley: 2010's European Capitals of Culture are beating their chests. What about Pécs in Hungary? Themba Rattles South Africa: "Crossing the Line" is the story of a young soccer player in Cape Town who becomes HIV positive after being raped. Now the book by German-Dutch artist Lutz van Dijk has being filmed. Yinka Shonibare: Scramble for Africa. A curtain of trash hanging over the entrance to Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie. A wall of containers in front the Hamburger Bahnhof. Scars of Earth: New York photographer Henri Fair takes aerial photographs of industrial landscapes. His pictures feature locations around the world. They show the damage done by man to nature: pollution and climate change -- the side affects of civilization and our need for energy. His fascinating photographs are now on display in Bremen. Arts.21 shows the photographer at work over the Ruhr Valley.

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