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Monthly Archives: August 2009

THE HALLWAY

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Miranda July’s work is often funny, but it is a dark, gallows humor, unafraid to confront death, perversion, loneliness, alienation, and emptiness. (In the first scene of her brilliant film Me and You and Everyone We Know, a man sets his own hand on fire.). In 2008, she created a 125 foot hallway art installation [...]

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MOONMILKING

Saturday, August 22, 2009

One of our favourite photographers, Ryan McGinley, has just released a new series from his ongoing summer project, which has him travelling across America with a gang of naked models for five summers in a row. Go, go, see the amazingly psychedelic Moon Milk series here. The photographs will be on display at Alison Jacques [...]

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MONO MORNING POST

Saturday, August 22, 2009

mono.kultur was listed among the ten best magazines from Berlin by the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost. Unlikely bedfellows we are, but it’s sweet of you nonetheless.

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FALL OF AN ICON

Friday, August 21, 2009

There have been many stories in the news surrounding Annie Leibovitz‘ financial struggles and excesses – but still one can’t help wondering how one of the most famous contemporary celebrity photographers with a 6-digit day rate could fall this low, pawning not only the copyrights to her vast archive, but also the rights to all [...]

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MORE DAILY NICE

Thursday, August 20, 2009

If you wish Jason Evan’s daily nice was more frequent than daily, then go have a look at the German equivalent by Berlin-based photographer Peter Langer. You might or might not be familiar with his slightly odd contributions to the style column of the weekly newspaper supplement Zeitmagazin, but his photo blog is where he [...]

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JEMAINE’S FLIGHT TO FANTASY FAME

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) + Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) = a whole lot of outrageous laughs. Gentlemen Broncos is going to hit theaters this fall-anous.

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UNTER DEM MOTTO

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Save the date: Berlin will be holding its first independent publishing extravaganza on the weekend of September 05, involving Motto, the Kunstbibliothek and Kunstwerke Berlin. More to come very soon!

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SOME DAILY NICE

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Photographer Jason Evans established the web site The Daily Nice in 2004. Each day he shows just one photograph about his enthusiasm for looking and being. It’s a simple approach to the web – a mono approach, really: one image per day, no more, no less.
Photography by Jason Evans

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FUTURE IS NEVER GOING TO DIE

Monday, August 17, 2009

Coming up: Ray Kurzweil’s documentary feature Transcendent Man will predict our singularic future. And  how death will be wiped out. In contrast, predicting the release date seems a challenge: Please, find all the vague hints here.
Patrick Tucker tells the story in The Futurist.
And Ray tells the Future at TED 2005.
The Fountain of Youth by Lucas [...]

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DON’T MISS MISS FLOYER

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Ceal Floyer’s first solo exhibition in Germany opens next Saturday, August 22, at 5 pm at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (on view until October 18, 2009).
Ceal Floyer (born 1968) works in different media – her conceptual approach takes the form of works on paper, photographs, sound works, films and readymades. You probably [...]

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