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Monthly Archives: September 2009

REGULAR DESIGN

mono.kultur is featured in a new and heavy design book, Regular – Graphic Design Today, by Berlin-based Gestalten publishers. While we’re usually not so keen on coffee table books, this is actually a rather nice one with a pretty good selection of what’s going on at the moment and a refreshing focus on a younger [...]

HOW TO HOST A ‘TOTALLY INFORMAL’ PARTY

Check out Microsoft´s new advertising campaign! Tupperware was yesterday.

SHOOTING MARTHA

You can find a nice comment on our issue #19 with German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus at the new and very promising film blog Projected. We particularly enjoyed the image of Ballhaus at work during the shoot of the legendary Martha with Rainer Fassbinder, where Ballhaus first used his famous 360° tracking shot.

MONO.PUNKT #09: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2009

After a great magazine fair in London yesterday, we continue across the great pond to present mono.kultur at the mother of all publishing fairs, the venerable New York Art Book Fair from 02. to 04. October at, lo and behold, PS1. If you’re around, please make sure to come and visit us – we’re certainly [...]

THE BRILLIANCE OF BUILDINGS

The documentary film VISUAL ACOUSTICS by new director Eric Bricker celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the famous American architectural photographer. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. The [...]

DISTRACTIONS

Whether you want to escape art fairs weekend (art forum, art berlin contemporary, preview berlin, berliner liste, berliner kunstsalon etc.) or are too excited about the German federal election, 2009 that will take place tomorrow, here’s a way to distract yourself. The outrageous but brilliant tv series Curb Your Enthusiasm just started a seventh season [...]

Platoon vs. Good Morning Vietnam

Local competition: Platoon vs. Good Morning Vietnam. Not only within one movie genre, but also geographic. Since October 2007 a Vietnamese restaurant and the transitory container office of a think tank face each other at the corner of Alte Schönhauser and Lininestraße in Berlin-Mitte. Purpose? Do Berry Levinson and Oliver Stone know about it?

Platoon, Alte [...]

PROVE YOURSELF

Charlotte Gainsbourg discovered her limits while filming Antichrist with Lars von Trier – in an interview at Frankfurter Rundschau she talks about her experience:
“I felt as if I was crossing a boundary. I was like a child who wants to provoke a reaction. It also involved hurting myself to some extent, but basically it [...]

40 YEARS NGBK

CONGRATULATIONS!

AND THE WINNER IS…

Last night Omer Fast was announced as the winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2009 (Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art). The Berlin Nationalgalerie’s Preis für Junge Kunst (often referred to as the Turner Prize of Germany) boasts a cash prize of €50,000 and an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Four artists were [...]