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Monthly Archives: November 2009

SKYSPACING

Friday, November 13, 2009

One of James Turrell’s famous Skyspaces [thanks Tiny] – seriously, I could look at this forever. If you ever come near one, make sure to bring a couple of hours with you. Or, in the meantime, go visit his current exhibition in Germany instead, at Wolfsburg Kunstmusem, running until 05 April 2010.

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ENCHANTED HUNTERS

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Nabokov lovers! Pnin addicts! Hunted enchanters! Butterfly aficionados! Dig this!

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Chinese Fog, Chinese Dust

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Contemporary photography seems to be enveloped by a layer of Chinese haze these days. Ferit Kuyas‘ work on Chongqing, the City of Fog; Muge’s series on the Three Gorges dam; Benoit Aquin’s images of Le Dust Bowl Chinois… Along with Dubai’s crane-filled cityscape, capturing China’s warp-speed industrialization has become de rigueur for fine art and [...]

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FROM LONDON WITH LOVE

Monday, November 9, 2009

…says Rick Poynor in his review of mono.kultur for the blog of the venerable design magazine Eye. Now, while it’s always nice to get comments, this one really got our hearts pounding: Mr. Poynor is well known for not giving praise light-heartedly, and his reviews are always more than accurate. So this one really made [...]

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FROM TORONTO WITH LOVE

Monday, November 9, 2009

…says A.S. in Toronto on receiving mono.kultur for the first time. See, now what did we tell you?

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

Sunday, November 8, 2009

It’s really a very small and tenuous link to our current cover star but  ‘Chinglish’ and Ai Weiwei do both originate from China. With so many English-speaking tourists and businessmen now traveling to China, the Chinese are translating their signs to help visitors.  Sometimes though the message gets lost and the results can be amusing and [...]

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BERLIN BERLIN DU BIST SO SCHÖN

Saturday, November 7, 2009

…says Sissel Tolaas, and she should know. Somehow, this doesn’t really come as a surprise.

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THE WHEEL

Friday, November 6, 2009

This coming weekend Erika Arzt and Juan Linares will attempt to reactivate the wheel of the Spree-Park in Berlin’s Treptower Park. A former technician of the Spree-Park will arrive to Berlin with the intention to re-activate the wheel. If he should succeed, they will have the wheel turning on Sunday, November 8, all day long. Due to technical and [...]

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FISCHLI WEISS

Friday, November 6, 2009

If you’re in New York, you should stop by Matthew Marks Gallery for the Peter Fischli David Weiss exhibition. Most known for the astounding The Way Things Go – a Rude Goldberg-like video full of fire, catapults and slow dissolves – the Swiss artist duo also work with encyclopedic archives of banal tourist photos, and [...]

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BONANZA COFFEE HEROES

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Good coffee isn’t necessarily the easiest thing to find in Berlin.  ‘Don’t die before trying’ the coffee, as the sign says at Bonanza Coffee Heroes.  This small coffee shop on Oderberger Strasse in Prenzlauer Berg specializes in one thing – coffee.  They roast their own coffee beans and make really good coffee – a mono [...]

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