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Monthly Archives: March 2012

FORGET FEAR

Until April 1, 2012 you still have the chance to register for the press or professional preview days of this year’s 7th Berlin Biennale, taking place on April 25 and 26 – so don’t forget!
Official Opening: April 26, 7 – 10 pm
Dates: April 27 – July 1, 2012
www.berlinbiennale.de

MONO.KULTUR #31: MICHAËL BORREMANS

Dear Friends,

now that we have entered our 30s, we thought it was time for a suitably grown-up yet wide-eyed subject for this precarious moment. And what better place to look than this most ancient genre of the fine arts that is painting – in fact, an area that we have not addressed [...]

UPCOMING: RINEKE DIJKSTRA

Rineke Dijkstra’s portraits are impossible to pull away from. While her subjects range from park-goers and dancers to French Foreign Legion officers, they are all young, and they are all totally open. Dijkstra is unparalleled in her ability to capture the emotional flux of growing up. Each face that addresses her camera (always directly) projects [...]

NOGOODNIKS

A Thursday smile from Adrian Norvid’s new book Nogoodniks.

STORE OF THE MONTH: ATHENAEUM / AMSTERDAM

Athenaeum is something of a wet dream for anyone who is even faintly interested in books and magazines. A proper bookstore with over 50,000 titles in stock, established in 1996 on Spui square in the heart of Amsterdam, they included a Nieuwscentrum a few years later, which has pretty much everything in terms of periodicals [...]

TUESDAY MUSIC: NILS FRAHM

I photographed Berlin-based label Erased Tapes last week, which is a fine example of an independent record label in the 21st century. Consistently carving out their niche between electronica and classical and ambient music for five years, it’s a wholesome approach to music: production, packaging, videos – everything is produced with equal love for detail [...]

Ed Kleinholz

I said, “I want you to have done something on this case. And if you haven’t done anything on this case”—this was on the phone—I said, “If you haven’t done anything on this case, I’m going to come down and I’m going to fuck TWA over to the extent you’ve fucked me over.” He said, [...]

URBAN OPERETTA

R.Kelly’s legendary music-video-drama-series Trapped in the Closet is coming back! The next installments of the R&B musical will be broadcast “this year”, as IFC recently announced.
The first 12 instalments of Trapped in the Closet came in 2005, with additional 10 chapters in 2007, of course following several parodies on US-TV. If you haven’t seen the [...]

MONO.GRAMM SPRING/SUMMER 2012

Now that spring is showing its pretty face with unexpected generosity, high time to present our spring/summer collection with mono.gramm. Starting this week, the collection will go online at our web store mono.konsum, piece by piece, day by day, since we’re really proud of this one. So watch this space.
Photography / Kai von Rabenau
Styling / [...]

MONO.KULTUR #31 / SOUNDBITE 03

Coming back from the printers this week: mono.kultur #31.