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Monthly Archives: February 2011

BLESS HOME

Monday, February 7, 2011

The ever unpredictable fashion/product/life designers at Bless have returned with a new store in Berlin which shakes up the concept of a store somewhat – located in a regular flat on the third floor of a residential building in Prenzlauer Berg district in Berlin, you enter an entire world created and designed by, well, Bless.
The [...]

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BRING BACK SPARTAKIADA

Monday, February 7, 2011

The Guardian today has a review of Phil Collin’s 2010 video installation, Marxism Today, an overview of ignored voices from post-wende East Germany (originally screened at the Berlin Biennale). It features – among other things – footage of DDR-era mass gymnastics displays. ‘This sort of thing could never happen here, I thought, not because we [...]

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MAESTRO MUTI DOWNED DURING REHEARSAL IN CHICAGO

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Riccardo Muti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra fell down during rehearsal on Thursday, Feb 3rd. He will stay in hospital to treat his multiple facial injuries and also to examine the underlying cause of his fall.
His recordings include the first Beethoven Symphony Cycle made for compact disc, the symphonies of Johannes Brahms and [...]

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SATURDAY TIP

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Book Presentation, The New Guide of the Conversation, in Portuguese and English, in two parts, by José da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino
Atlas Projectos presents a re-print verbatim et literatim of the first Portuguese–English conversation guide ever to be published. Originally printed in 1855, this book never fulfilled the role it was [...]

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A MISTRESS, NOT A WIFE

Friday, February 4, 2011

Now you can buy the sheet of tattoos that came with the Nov/Dec 2007 Believer Art Issue all by themselves. “Your temporary tattoo is just like a permanent tattoo, only temporary. If the permanent tattoo is like a wife, then the temporary tattoo is like a mistress. If your permanent tattoo is a twenty-year prison [...]

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STAND BY HARPER

Thursday, February 3, 2011

It never hurts to revisit classics, since they’re classics for a reason. Point in case: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. First read in 1989, now on my reading table again. Brave and beautiful.

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MONO.KULTUR #26 SOUNDBITE 01

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Daydreams of Grandiosity

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A beautiful concept explained by the artist himself:
‘It occurred to me that being an artist is a great deal like being a dictator. Just like a dictator, I must live in a closed loop of self-delusion. A place where my words and ideas always ring true. A gilded daydream of grandiosity. There can be no [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: KAPOK, HONG KONG

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hidden away on a small side terrace between local shops and street food vendours lies Kapok, a gem of a store for all kinds of funky knickknack you didn’t know you needed – yet. Stylish tote bags, designer candles, the latest hi-tech trivia, plenty of arty magazines impossible to find elsewhere in Hong Kong – [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: GOTTLUND VERLAG

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Nicolas Gottlund publishes artist and photo books. His studio is the stuff of daydreams, in a lofted barn filled with old letterpresses, tucked away in the woods outside Kutztown, Pennsylvania. The city’s great and all, but come on…

Ultimately, though, what matters is the quality of the books he prints, not the [...]

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