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Monthly Archives: July 2011

NO MORE REALITY

Our friends at Textfield Distribution have teamed up with the beautiful project space of Creatures of Comfort in New York to put on an exhibition and bring their selection of great independents to the east coast: doors will open this Thursday for a one-month print extravaganza.
No More Reality

Temporary bookshop and exhibition
July 21 — August [...]

Blast from the past

“Modernism began in the magazines“: The Modernist Journals Project. (via). What a blast…

THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES

Mercedes Benz and Raf Simons might make for unlikely bedfellows, but then again, these days the merge of art and commerce is probably not really surprising anymore. In any case, curious to see what a three-day festival under the moniker of Avant/Garde Diaries curated by Simons will entail.
Avant/Garde Diaries – Transmission 1
15–17 July 2011
BCC
Alexanderplatz
10178 Berlin

STORE OF THE MONTH: PHIL VIENNA

We’re not quite sure how to label the wonderful Phil in Vienna: is it café, bar, bookstore, vintage designer furniture space, record store, videotheque or a cultural establishment for readings, screenings and talks? Truth is, it’s kind of all of those.
A place where to go for breakfast in the morning or coffee in the afternoon, [...]

MONO.KULTUR #28 SOUNDBITE 01

THE BUZZ OF THE DAY

Oh-oh! It seems that our latest mono.kultur guest, photographer Ryan McGinley, is facing some trouble regarding a lawsuit filed by artist Janine Gordon.
Copyright issues are a main issue nowadays and we are 100% for respecting individual intellectual property, but the arguments don’t seem that much convincing to most people and we are so much in [...]

HEAD FOR THE COLD COUNTRY

For somebody from Hawaii like John Maus a winter landscape must seem like a refreshing paradise.

ACTING CLASS

There’s hardly an actor as famous as Nicolas Cage with more bandwidth when it comes to really good or really bad films. You can’t deny he’s got a style of his own.

BERLIN FASHION WEEK #07: KOSTAS MURKUDIS

Berlin Fashion Week is over, and it’s been extremely nice this summer – one of the highlights surely being the store opening of Andreas Murkudis and the adjacent show by his brother Kostas Murkudis, in collaboration with none other than Carsten Nicolai. Think what you will of the collection, but it’s always nice to see [...]

BIRTH OF A NATION

Today marks the birth of a new country: South Sudan which, after decades of civil war and atrocities that are hard to imagine, is finally becoming independent. Normally, this wouldn’t have meant all that much to me, but now it does, having recently finished Dave Eggers‘ What is the What, a fictionalized autobiography of Valentino [...]