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Monthly Archives: March 2011

MONO.GRAMM SPRING/SUMMER 2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dear Friends,
with spring lurking just around the corner, time to preview our latest collection by mono.gramm. The new summer collection bears all the mono.gramm trademarks: unusual but simple silhouettes, classic and breezy summer dresses and comfortable knitwear, draped details and an organic and lighthearted feel. Perfect for a hot summer’s day in [...]

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ALVA NOTOISM

Thursday, March 24, 2011

We’ve been discussing projects relating audio and video a few times here recently, which is why we really should mention a concert by our mono.kultur cover star #01, a certain Carsten Nicolai aka alva noto, who’ll be presenting an update of his unitxt project – under the name of univrs – which is based on [...]

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HENRICKSON CHURCH PLUS

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Another brilliant series has come to an end. The fifth and final season of HBO’s Big Love focused on the antiquated role of women in the world of Mormon and polygamy and arrived at a quite satisfying conclusion.

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SNEAK PEEK MONO.KULTUR #26

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Some images of our current and impossibly stylish new issue with and about Manfred Eicher, the mind behind the avant-garde jazz and classic label ECM Records. Designed with love by Bernd Kuchenbeiser from Munich.

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80 Blocks From Tiffany’s – NYC 1979

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Back in the days, an excursion to the early urban gang.
“This 1979 documentary film focuses on gangs such as the savage skulls & nomads who occupied areas of the South Bronx. Perhaps even more compelling is considering that the backdrop and social conditions in this film are a ‘far cry’ from [...]

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Listening to iTunes

Monday, March 21, 2011

iTunes interpreted as audio data by Vuvuzela

Random Davis, digital native from Portland, began listening to windows programs (.exe). Finally something to do with it, mac followers might argue. However obscure, the compression patterns seem to create some rhythm. Check out the charts.
Remember when we would play commodore’s datassetten on the stereo? Now, the next [...]

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THE RECOVERY OF DISCOVERY

Monday, March 21, 2011

Exhibition opening next Saturday at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin:
Cyprien Gaillard The Recovery of Discovery
Preserving a monument goes hand in hand with destroying it. In order to preserve architecture, cultural monuments and relics, they are often re-located, allowing urban displacement to arise  – leading to the disappearance of the concept of autonomous geography [...]

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WHAT GOT YOU HERE, WON’T GET YOU THERE

Monday, March 21, 2011

Tonight at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin:
Egill Sæbjörnsson & Marcia Moraes
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
(WP)? Performance | Installation
The Icelandic artist and musician Egill Sæbjörnsson, who lives in Berlin, combines elements of installation and performance, video and live music in his works. In complex, poetically narrative spatial constellations, he himself becomes part of the situation, [...]

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Leo Steinberg, 1920-2011

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Leo Steinberg, a giant of 20th century art history, died last Sunday, at home in New York. Steinberg revolutionized the practice of his chosen field, pushing the analysis of art out of Greenbergian formalism by insisting on the importance of context and meaning.. His classic, foundational texts, including the essays collected in Other Criteria: Confrontations [...]

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INFORMATION FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING

Sunday, March 20, 2011

While it is the Chinese year of the rabbit this year, this doesn’t have anything to do with Grouchy Rabbit. But this ‘information for successful living’ does provide a smile. Enjoy your Sunday!

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