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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Mikhael Subotzky

Sunday, February 13, 2011

From David Goldblatt’s arresting portrayal of its political complexities and social contradictions, and the Bang-Bang Club’s searing coverage of its township violence, to Guy Tillim’s portraits of day-to-day life in its cities, South Africa has produced a tremendous body of photographic work. Mikhael Subotzky, an immensely talented Cape Town-based photographer, rightly deserves his place in [...]

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MEETING MR BLAKE

Sunday, February 13, 2011

There’s been word of mouth about this young gentleman for some time, but it’s only this weekend that he finally introduced himself to us in person. He seemed charming enough to invite him in for some tea with biscuits and lend him a sympathetic ear. But before you know it, he’s taken over the apartment, [...]

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HOW ARE YOU

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Radiator Film invites you to celebrate the world premiere of the film How Are You next Tuesday, February 15 at the Weekend Club in Berlin:
The documentary film How Are You by Jannik Splidsboel, with its world premiere at the Berlinale these days, is about the two now very famous Danish-Norwegian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar [...]

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THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS

Saturday, February 12, 2011

US actor James Franco, well-know from films like Spider Man, Milk, Howl, or 127 Hours, has other qualities, too: he is an artist. Opening tonight at Peres Projects in Berlin, The Dangerous Book Four Boys is the first European solo exhibition of James Franco, previously presented at the Clocktower Gallery, NYC. Franco’s works explore a [...]

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MONO.KULTUR AT METROPOLIS

Saturday, February 12, 2011

If you find yourself in Melbourne, Curtin House is on my list of places to definitely visit. Everything about this inconspicuous six-storey building exudes cool. Curtin House is home to the Cookie bar and restaurant on level one, live music venue The Toff in Town on level two, and on level three you will find [...]

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BEGINNING BEGINNERS

Friday, February 11, 2011

Now, with the Berlinale Film Festival upon us, one pretty face seems to pop up a lot these days, which belongs to the wondrous and wonderful Miranda July – who will, in turn, present her second feature film, The Future, for the first time in Europe next week in the competition of the Berlinale. In [...]

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PSYCHED

Friday, February 11, 2011

Massive Attack’s Heligoland is still one of my personal favourites from 2010 – hopefully, 2011 will see the rumoured remix of the entire album by Burial. In the meantime, the Attacksters are slowly commissioning track by track to different directors, constructing an entire video library to the soundtrack.

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EFTERBURNER

Thursday, February 10, 2011

No man is an island – go private-public with the incredible Efterklang this month!

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MAGAZINE MARATHON

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

In the meantime, over at MagCulture, one of our favourite magazine blogs, a marathon of a different kind is currently taking place in real-time: to celebrate its fifth anniversary, they’re working their way through a pile of new and independent magazines, by the hour. 24 magazines in 24 hours, that is. The curious thing is, [...]

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THE IMPOSSIBLE RETURN OF POLAROID

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

When in 2008, Polaroid announced that they would finally end production of their legendary instant film, they not only rendered 300,000,000 functioning cameras obsolete, it also felt like the final blow to analogue photography, in times when Agfa had gone bankrupt and most film and camera manufacturers settled on digital photography. But it’s sometimes hard [...]

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