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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Is it spring yet?

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Looking forward to the first installment of Roberto Bolaño’s last novel, hitherto unpublished in English, in the Spring Issue of The Paris Review. Any day now.

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ARCHIZINES

Saturday, March 12, 2011

As online forums for printed matter abound, here’s a nice archive of a slightly different kind: Archizines is run by Elias Redstone of London’s renowned Architecture Foundation and presents titles from all over the word that deal with, obviously, architecture. With dozens and dozens of magazines dedicated to the genre, many of which we’ve never [...]

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SOUTH LONDON ALIEN INVASION

Friday, March 11, 2011

Aliens don’t always land in the United States – Peckham, Camberwell and New Cross are quite likely too! Joe Cornish from my favourite radio show Adam & Joe on BBC 6 Music wrote and directed Attack the Block. It will be his first feature film and will be released the the UK on May 13th. [...]

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MOTORS ON! MOTORS OFF!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Last Saturday in Copenhagen…

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MONO.KULTUR #26: MANFRED EICHER / ECM

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dear Friends,
hanging onto the coattails of winter, we’re proud to finally announce our belated but in return utterly beautiful issue #26, featuring Manfred Eicher, the mastermind behind the highly prestigious jazz and classic label ECM Records – widely regarded as one of the most influential and demanding platforms for contemporary music worldwide. Founded in 1969, [...]

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Dauhn, as hei deiht

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Many of our international subscribers will find the new mono.issue in their mailbox these days. Without telling too much about the inside of the envelope, a remark on its outside: We were quite happy to notice wisdom doesn’t stop in fortune cookies, the  €1-stamps quote low-German poet Fritz Reuter:
‘Wenn einer dauhn deit, wat hei deiht, [...]

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Movie Lapse

Thursday, March 10, 2011

For fans of zebras, and movies alike.

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AFTER THE FALL

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

In a series of monthly evenings, Florian Wüst seeks to contextualize Salon Populaire spatially: by showing and commenting on selected film references and excerpts, he reflects on the history and the present of West Berlin as the “storefront of the free West”, as a site for the squatting movements of the early 1980s, as well [...]

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WHAT’S NEXT? A SEARCH INTO THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

“Alec Soth says…
The Gerneralized Answer:
The medium is moving in two directions simultaneously:  it is becoming both increasingly digital and physical. The obvious analogy is the music industry. Most people get their music via inexpensive digital downloads. But at the same time, vinyl album sales were up 33% last year. The diehards crave something physical. In [...]

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CARSTEN NICOLAI / PIONIER

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Inaugural mono.kultur interviewee, Carsten Nicolai is currently presenting his first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. The exhibition pionier, is titled after one of his most recent works, pionier i – an ephemeral installation featuring a huge parachute (pictured above). The exhibition continues until 13 March, 2011.
Carsten Nicolai / pionier
4 February – 13 [...]

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