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Monthly Archives: December 2009

NOT EASY TO SAVE THE WORLD…

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Not easy to save the world in 90 days
Exhibition opening: Today, December 12, 2009, 5 – 9 pm at Tanas, Heidestr. 50, 10557 Berlin (Dates: December 14, 20099 – March 13, 2010)
With: Halil Altindere, Fikret Atay, Köken Ergun, Ali Kazma, Servet Kocyigit, Ahmet Ögüt, Erkan Özgen, Sener Özmen, Cengiz Tekin, Nasan Tur
Turkish contemporary art is heading [...]

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IN THE BAVARIAN FORESTS

Friday, December 11, 2009

Jürgen Teller – who contributed a series of photographs for our mono.kultur issue #08 about German techno pioneer Wolfgang Voigt – returned to Bavaria. Since yesterday his solo show Logisch! is showing at Kunsthalle Nuremberg until February 14th 2010. Download the sold out mono.kultur issue #08 here for free (link is at the bottom of [...]

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IT’S TIME TO FORGET TIME

Friday, December 11, 2009

The motto is ‘it’s time to forget time!’ For when we have a good time in life, time ceases to matter. T1MEPEACES are bracelets designed by Denise Julia Reytan, laser cut, in stainless steel, silver or ruthenium. T1MEPEACE reminds you to enjoy life and to forget about the time. Losing track of time seems especially [...]

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ABNORMALITIES

Friday, December 11, 2009

Pourquoi Israël from 1973 is Shoah filmmaker Claude Lanzmann’s first film (he’s also Chief Editor of Les Temps modernes).
International media attention was caused by an incident at b-movie cinema in Hamburg on October 25, 2009, where leftist groups violently prevented a showing of the movie, claiming it took a one-sided zionist perspective. Here’s an interesting [...]

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AND BUT SO…

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Still a SNOOT (check footnote #3), the late great David Foster Wallace just dropped a new piece of fiction. Here. What’s more, here’s a snooty Grammar Challenge.

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NAUGHTY PETE

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Gossip sells, they say, so in an attempt to spruce up our blog a little, here’s some gossip for you: according to the Daily Mail, Peter Doherty, eternal enfant terrible, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday in Berlin for smashing a car window at the end of a drinking binge, after asking repeatedly [...]

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BACK IN THE DAYS…

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Der Hafer und Bananenblues, by Äffle und Pferdle

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LESSONS IN MAGAZINES #03: EIN MAGAZIN ÜBER ORTE

Monday, December 7, 2009

Ein Magazin über Orte – meaning, quite literally, A Magazine about Places – is a little gem of a journal, and one of the best magazines to come out of Berlin these days. The concept is already given away in the title: for every issue, a certain place is selected, such as ’scene of crime’, [...]

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I FORGOT ABOUT IT

Monday, December 7, 2009

Well, I did it; again. Forgot to blog – on time.
So, why does this happen? Why do I and hopefully a huge we as well forget to remember and do things we think of as more or less important?
Check here for a possible solution. And, try to remember!

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ADDENDUM

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Just a little addendum to last week’s blog entry about Cormac McCarthy. The typewriter (Olivetti Lettera 32) with which he typed all his novels from 1958 to 2009 just sold at a Christie’s auction for $254,500. At the age of 25 McCarthy bought it in a pawnshop in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he grew up. After [...]

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