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Monthly Archives: March 2010

KREUZBERGER JEWEL

Kreuzberg might have regained the upper hand over Mitte as Berlin’s hippest district, but in terms of fashion it is still a desert – think army vintage, hemp trousers, cheap t-shirts, enough said. Slap in the middle, looking out onto the terrace of the infamous social housing estate on Kottbusser Tor, a little island of [...]

TALKING INDEPENDENT

mono.kultur will give a short lecture on independent publishing production and distribution as part of a series of salon events organized by The Permanent Bookshop from Brighton, who’ve set up a temporary outpost at the exhibition Tipping Points at .HBC on Alexanderplatz this Wednesday, from 19 to 21h. We’ll be joined by our colleagues at [...]

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DIE ANTWOORD

Sometimes a cultural experience so completely overwhelms your senses that nothing else can get through. The South African Zef group Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for The Answer) is such a case. Made up of MC Ninja (aka Waddy Jones) and Yo-landi Vi$$er (aka Yolandi Visser), both former members of the conceptual medium-art hip-hop group MaxNormal.TV, along [...]

A LETTER

From Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
Dear Eva,
It will be almost a month since you wrote to me and you have possibly forgotten your state of mind (I doubt it though). You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t! Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in [...]

FINE WITH ME!

Prolific as they are, we could dedicate our entire blog to our friends at Motto, so forgive us for mentioning them once again – but they’re just getting better and better. If you happen to be in lovely Stuttgart in the next five weeks, you can see for yourself at the temporary book store they [...]

SYDNEY BIENNALE AND PECHAKUCHA NIGHTS

If you’re in Sydney soon you may wish to plan a visit to the 17th Biennale of Sydney which is held from 12 May until 1 August 2010. Based on the curatorial theme The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, recent and new works by Australian artists will be showcased alongside [...]

RUSSIAN UNORTHODOX

Another must go: Russian Circles live in Berlin. This Saturday. At Magnet. Three guys, and so much whoomp.

MONO.GRAMM SPRING/SUMMER 2010

Spring has finally arrived, time to clear out the closets and put away your winter coats. Time also to stock up on some beautiful summer items, and why not have a look at the new collection by our very own label mono.gramm? Finally available here, and very soon directly from [...]

LEIPZIG WIE ES LEIBT UND LEBT

A few images from the magazine event organized by our friends at Spector last Saturday at the grand Centraltheater in Leipzig. It was really nice, thanks Spector!
Photography by Alexis Zavialoff