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Monthly Archives: February 2012

TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

The exhibition of  Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]

NOSTALGIA

Bringing the old and new memories together, feeling the nostalgia… The blog Dear Photograph makes you take out your old photos from the boxes and visit the places where they were taken.
‘I wish climbing up was as easy as the sliding down…’

Unrivalled Utopia

If you’re still looking for the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything“ (not: Antwoord), maybe Paul Laffoley is for you. Effortlessly he bridges eastern and western cosmology, covers ancient to rather recent metaphysics compacting all of that into blazing infographics, goa party posters, utopian visuals.

IT’S A SNAP

It feels kind of weird to post an advertising spot for a university here, but that’s because they don’t normally tend to look like this – just see for yourselves. (And thank you.)

“NOW IT IS BEDROCK”

Chacaltaya Mountain, Bolivia, a series by the British photographer Nick Ballon documenting the disappearance of the Chacaltaya glacier, is poignant, artful look at how climate change has destroyed a once-thriving local economy in Bolivia.

KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA IN BERLIN #3

Martin Zet’s campaign Deutschland schafft es ab (‘Germany gets rid of it‘) in the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale gave rise to strong reactions and polarized the public opinion. His call for donations of Thilo Sarrazin’s book Deutschland schafft es ab was criticized not only in numerous media reports, but the Berlin Biennale also received [...]

MILLENIUM MAGAZINES

Today opens a rather epic survey on independent publishing in the wise halls of the MoMA Library in New York, accumulating more than 100 magazines on art and design from all over the world – and of course, also from Berlin, including our humble little adventure in print.
Here is what they have to say about [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: SHABAZZ PALACES

I can’t really claim to understand the deeper meaning behind Shabazz Palaces‘ latest video for Are You… Can You… Were You… (Felt), but hey, any footage including a beautiful girl on a bicycle works for me, especially when the soundtrack comes from the warped minds of Shabazz.

THE MOTH / A SPACE TO LISTEN

I read a recommendation to listen to The Moth’s podcast of Alan Rabinowitz’s ‘Man and Beast’ as it was described as “quite wonderful”.  It is.

WINTER SALE

High time to say WINTER SALE! for mono.gramm, and is it true that spring should be this close? Good news, wethinks, and happily live like kings and lavishly reduce our Autumn/Winter collection by 30%, and all previous collections by, hear ye, 50%.