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Monthly Archives: March 2010

WHILE WAITING

Monday, March 8, 2010

Waiting (i.e. if The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture Of The Year) can be very uncomfortable, you might be too nervous to really concentrate on your reading, restless legs or feet… Here’s a thing that will remind many of you of the times in the old school days when you kept [...]

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Happy Birthday, Rudi

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Today would have been Rudi Dutschke’s 70th birthday. Time to think about long marches, institutions, and most certainly of revolutions.

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I LIKE MY STYLE

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Be on the lookout for Ilikemystyle. A new social networking site based around fashion, Ilikemystyle functions much like Facebook, only without the ungainly design and unbearable, Twitter-like feed system. The focus on is pictures and the choices behind them, allowing users to match their aesthetic attitudes with like-minded individuals.
Most important, though, is connecting all these [...]

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COLD TURKEY – AN INVITATION

Saturday, March 6, 2010

From April 1st to 30th, 2010 a drug detox residency will be offered by Hotel Marienbad at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Artists, curators, critics and all those professionally related to the arts are invited to apply. The Hotel Marienbad suite offers a confidential retreat secluded from the public eye. Your drug detox [...]

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WHAT WOULD ‘MOTTO’ SOUND LIKE IN SWISS GERMAN?

Friday, March 5, 2010

Well, you can find out tonight when the adorable guys at Motto open their second bookstore at La Perla in Zürich tonight. Great space, great people, great books – what more could you possibly want?

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THE MASTER

Friday, March 5, 2010

In the summer of 2005, Steidl published a modest booklet of London-based, German-born, mono.kultur #08 photographer Juergen Teller’s work, titled The Master. This booklet offered a characteristic portrait of Teller’s own world and his persona as a photographer, with a mixture of fashion and commissioned works printed alongside self-portraits, family photographs and scenes from his [...]

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LITERATURE ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Thursday, March 4, 2010

As an interview magazine that also is involved in running a fashion label, a photography studio and in hosting a range of events, the new experiment by the German independent publisher Blumenbar is just our cup of tea: in an attempt to attract the so-called ‘Generation Internet’ to the written page, Blumenbar opted to bring [...]

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DISCONTENT ARCHITECTURE

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Kaleidoscope magazine have invited Adam Szymczyk, curator of the Kunsthalle Basel and the Berlin Biennial in 2008 as well as staunch supporter of mono.kultur, to curate a one week film program at their project space in Milan, ‘addressing the present urban condition and reality of built environment, contemporary artists mine the mythos of modern architecture, [...]

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SUDDEN SATORI

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

More great news from Ken Baumann: He now owns and operates a little publishing company called Sator Press. Congrats!

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SEPTUAGINT

Monday, March 1, 2010

15 years, 70 issues – that should be ample reason to celebrate. See you tomorrow night at Civilist.

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