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Monthly Archives: June 2011

28 Days Later

Friday, June 10, 2011

The opposite of fragile or flimsy: Son Lux’s new-new album We Are Rising. Recorded in four short weeks. And clearly on the rise.

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JEREMY SHAW: BEST OF MINDS

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The controversy-laden Leistungsschau Based in Berlin opened its doors on Tuesday (co-curated, we might add with just a little bit of pride, by our very own Magda Magiera) – and while it was too busy to see much of the work, there is one central piece in the main hall of Kunstwerke that really stuck [...]

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SNEAK PEEK MONO.KULTUR #27

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A few images of our latest and hugely satisfying issue with darling photographer Ryan McGinley, featuring no less than 10 different fonts, just as many grids, and oh, about 30 images or so by Ryan, spanning his entire career to date from early college days to his latest exhibition this spring. Needless to say, you [...]

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THE STRANGLING POWER OF DUST AND STARS

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Any traveller to India would have noticed the popularity of comic books based on Hindu mythology. The tales of the gods, their battles, and their family dramas are recounted in colourful booklets which have become almost more popular than the original sacred texts upon which they are based.

These familiar [...]

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PORTUGAL TURNS RIGHT

Monday, June 6, 2011

After the election with the biggest vote abstention (4 million people in a country of 10 million) in the whole country’s history, Portugal elected a new right wing social democrat government.
The rain persists in staying lately, tourists are not as many as before, and the people seem generally lost and tired. EU winds of calm [...]

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SURF PIPE

Sunday, June 5, 2011

If it weren’t made out of cobble stone it would be busy with skaters by now… The CITÉ DE L’OCÉAN ET DU SURF Museum in Biarritz intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology. By Steven [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: B STORE LONDON

Saturday, June 4, 2011

We’re always happy about new stores that decide to sell mono.kultur, and we’re double pleased when they happen to be personal favourites of ours, as is the case with the renowned b Store in London, one of the best addresses in town when it comes to fashion and design. B Store have always had a [...]

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A MONTH OF THURSDAY NIGHTS OUT

Friday, June 3, 2011

Not daily nice but Thursdays nice… Unspectacular but capturing water color snapshots by Leanne Shapton, published on the New York Times Opinion Pages.

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RIZING AND SHINING

Friday, June 3, 2011

It’s been 4 years since mono.kultur #11 featured American photographer David Lachapelle. That was 2007, two years after his documentary Rize came out and at the time he was seeking a clear break from his past as a commercial fashion and celebrity photographer. His style couldn’t have been more different than that of Ryan McGinley, [...]

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Feature Features

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Today is “men’s day“. And the streets of rural Germany are full of thirsty chariots venturing for epic quests like defeating a second case before noon while riding a decorated bike. (Not that Germans needed an official day to get drunk.) Recent evidence now reveals that all gear needed for such endeavours is in fact [...]

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