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Monthly Archives: September 2011

POSTSCRIPT: MONO.KLUB #35 WITH TARYN SIMON

Dear Friends,
well, what a beautiful evening last night, in the company of Taryn Simon, who introduced us to her latest magnum opus A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters in a guided tour through the exhibition and patiently answered the many questions afterwards.
A big thank you goes out to the Neue Nationalgalerie, who kindly [...]

AND THE WINNER IS…

…Cyprien Gaillard, cover star of our issue #24, who last night was announced the winner of the Preis für Junge Kunst, the German equivalent to the Turner Prize. Congratulations, Cyprien.

Michel

So, I finally got around to reading Houellebecq. All the hip kids, you see, were talking about it.
These books are pretty savage. James Wood points out that Michel Houellebecq ‘has the nihilist’s power to stain the fabric of life so utterly that most other contemporary writers seem by comparison sentimental and untruthful’. But I’m not [...]

The Weekender

Reproducing and updating Massimo Vignelli’s classic 1970 New York City transit map, this new guide to weekend service interruptions is one of the best ideas the Metropolitan Transit Authority has had in a long time. (Not sure if this is one, though). Talk about improving quality of life: if anything needs to be an app, [...]

MONO.PUNKT #11: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2011

We love New York, and we love book fairs, so it’s pretty evident that we would be ravished by the New York Art Book Fair. Arguably the most important fair of its kind, it’s always a pleasure, especially since its move to the nifty PS1. Since we have other plans for tonight, our friends at [...]

MONO.GRAMM SS 2012 PREVIEW

Paris Fashion Week begins today, and for the second time, we will participate with our nifty womenswear label mono.gramm at Capsule Fair Paris to preview our forthcoming Spring Summer collection for 2012 – so if you’re around, please feel free to drop by.
mono.gramm s/s 2012
(capsule) Paris
01?–?03 October 2011
10h?–19h
Garage ?Turenne
66 Rue de? Turenne
75003 Paris

One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure

The compulsion to consume, increased monitoring, and continuous traffic expansion will bring fundamental change to the appearance of cities. In 1998, Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser began implementing their concept of an artistic and architectural aesthetic of resistance to this appropriation. Using ’structural interventions’ in streets, squares, bridges, parks and [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: MIRROR MIRROR

Pretty strange video for a pretty wonderful track: Interiors by Mirror Mirror, who happen to go on tour in the US with our drug of the moment, Cant.

Public Pattern Transport

Zürich
Toronto
Tel Aviv
At some point I couldn’t help but notice the extraordinary diversity: Each town has its own design. Sometimes there are several types. No butt ever seems to pay attention. So I started collecting snapshots with my phone. Feel free to submit your local pattern here: http://publicpatterntransport.tumblr.com

HAVE A LITTLE BREAK …

… and draw a stickman!