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Monthly Archives: September 2009

UTOPIA FOR SALE – WITH MONO.KULTUR

 
September 23-27, 2009
Held by abc, art berlin contemporary 
Akademie der Künste Berlin, 
Hanseantenweg 10
 
 
 
UTOPIA FOR SALE at Akademie der Künste Berlin

We are glad to invite you to UTOPIA FOR SALE, a magazine exhibition featuring the archives of the most engaging publications in the current sphere. This exhibition will be held by abc, art berlin contemporary at Akademie der Künste. Please visit [...]

COMING UP

Our next issue was printed yesterday and today – coming up in the beginning of October, featuring…

LETTER HEADS

In case you haven’t received a hand-written letter in a while, head over to Letters of Note, “an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams,” and more.

PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED 2009

After the grand Berlin publishing weekend in the beginning of September, the magazine season continues: not only will mono.kultur be participating in this year’s New York Art Book Fair – more on which soon – but also our favourite magazine fair, London’s annual Publish and Be Damned. Moving to a larger location this year, the [...]

JOSCHKA FISCHER GOES GREE(S)N

Kinda ‘former’ green politician Joschka Fischer who not only spends more money on a showing-off lifestyle than most of those his party does not exactly make politics for, now has his own consultancy company which works for BMW, a pipeline and a few other projects that one can not call green and never will.
Check this, [...]

ROAD TRIPPING

Ever wondered what visionary director David Lynch has been up to these past few years since the release of his last cinematic nightmare Inland Empire? Apart from holding up the torch for Transcendental Meditation, exhibiting his paintings and drawings, brewing coffee or getting involved in music projects, he’s also currently producing The Interview Project: a [...]

DAYLIGHT NOIR

In Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler’s Imagined City Catherine Corman follows private eye Philip Marlowe through the forlorn City of Los Angeles and revisits all the locations so hauntingly described by Chandler in his novels. Together with captions by Chandler and an essay by Jonathan Lethem, you will find out in this article how beautiful even [...]

DIGITAL COUTURE

Our friend Hermann August Weizenegger – formerly of the design office Vogt + Weizenegger – will be presenting his first solo effort with products on the edge between industrial design and fashion, developing different items on the same principles of  digital rotation and layering.
Opening 19.09.2009 to 10.10.2009
Appel Design Gallery
Torstrasse 114
10119 Berlin
Photography by Bernd Hiepe

A DECADE ON LINE

One of the best photography blogs is turned into a book: Berlin photographer Peter Langer has captured the everyday into personal, ironic imagery with documentary-style accuracy over the last decade. All 366 pictures that were published on Langer’s blog in 2008 (it was a leap year) found their way into the book, unedited of course. [...]

Dr. Dre awaits New Hop

In an interview with German journalist Tobias Rapp rap pioneer Dr. Dre diagnoses Hip Hop to have “run out of ideas” and to be “over”. While he doesn’t criticize its escapistic quality, he hopes for the New Hop.