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Monthly Archives: July 2011

making up stories

Saturday, July 23, 2011

We love a good interview, and this one is wonderful. John Gardner was a novelist and critic, but he was also a teacher and a human, in the very best way. His writing about writing is generous, practical and principled. The Paris Review compiled the interview from four separate interviews conducted by Paul F. Ferguson, John [...]

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LUCIAN FREUD

Friday, July 22, 2011

Rest in Peace

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LESSONS IN DESIGN: FRAUKE STEGMANN / TREADER

Friday, July 22, 2011

Some of us like animals, and so does designer and illustrator Frauke Stegmann – born in Germany, raised in Namibia, based in South Africa. I used to study with Frauke, and she’s a peculiar character with her very own view of the world – which also translates into her design work, to an extent that [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #28 SOUNDBITE 02

Friday, July 22, 2011

At the printers this week: mono.kultur #28.

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NEW SEASONS

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Finally summer break is over. The first two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 are very promising and at last, tonight Breaking Bad continues with its 4th season.

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THEY MAKE LISTS, TOO

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

We all make lists. I have piles of notebooks scattered throughout my apartment full of to-dos, to-buys, to-sees, to-writes, etc, yadda yadda. I enjoy them much more than diaries, because the pressure isn’t there to produce a coherent piece of work. You can jot dot ideas on these lists, maybe try out a few sentences [...]

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Fwd: ECM

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer interviewed about the latest ECM remix release ‘RE: ECM’.

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PANTHA DU PRINCE

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Friday, July 22, 8 pm:
Concert: XI versions of Black Noise: Pantha du Prince/live, Rough Trade UK
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Organized in the framework of the exhibition based in Berlin
Free entrance
Pantha du Prince claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible [...]

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WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

There’s a new neon sign that has gone up on Alexanderplatz – alas, it’s not advertising for any fashion brand or technical gadgets, but stands on its own. The laughing Indian is the latest artwork by Cyprien Gaillard, as part of the nearly finished Based in Berlin group ehibition, and uses the icon of the [...]

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ARE YOU WORKING TOO MUCH?

Monday, July 18, 2011

“Let’s be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are revealed as [...]

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