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Monthly Archives: August 2012

DIARY OF ME

This post is not for you, or maybe it is, depending on whether you share our editing team’s other half’s passion for a certain R. Kelly, who has been popping up embarrassingly often on these pages recently. But we are not the only ones with this particular weakness, because news just arrived that our colleagues [...]

WAEL SHAWKY

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is a storyteller: historiographical and literary sources form the starting point for his concentrated film narratives, in which he interweaves myths, facts, and fiction. The actors, backdrops, and costumes, music, and text each become self-contained narrative voices and through their interplay, fracture ossified views of history. His poetic staging of [...]

MONO.KULTUR #32 IN THE FLESH

And since we haven’t got around to taking our own product images yet, find below some shots by our friends at Motto to present you the design marvels of our latest issue featuring the unmistakeable Martino Gamper…

THE WORLD IN LONDON

With the Olympic Games having come to a glorious end (already?), time to revel in the aftermath, or maybe go see an exhibition instead, for instance the brilliant photography group exhibition organised by the renovated Photographers Gallery, where they set themselves the task to track down a representative for every nation residing in London – [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: LAETITIA SADIER

Whenever I’m feeling a little drowsy and it’s raining outside, it’s time for my old Stereolab records, or Laetitia Sadier these days. Today it’s not the case for either, but it’s Monday, which all the reason I need: et voilà.

THIS IS HOW IT ENDS

I was given an advanced copy of This Is How It Ends and was told that I had to read it. This novel was the sensation of The London Book Fair 2011. Despite the furore about this book in the publishing industry, This Is How It Ends is a quiet book, beautifully written, about some very [...]

Literarischer Ausritt Pt. 1

Earlier this week, a great young writer from New York told me over beers that authors like Barthelme and Coover are really not such a big deal in the States. Truly a shame, I think, and what’s worse: even less people seem to have heard of Walter Abish’s incredible How German Is It. It’s about [...]

MONO.KULTUR #32: MARTINO GAMPER

Dear Friends,
with summer dropping in and out every now and then, we finally and happily present our latest issue featuring the unmistakeable Martino Gamper – and about high time, admittedly. But: dedicating a tasty 10,000-word interview to the charm and wit of the Italian product designer in a volume ripe with food for the mind [...]

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

It’s rare that architecture photography manages to make a comment not on architecture, but the passing of time, an international crisis and a current sports event all at the same time – as does Jamie McGregor Smith’s series Borrow, Build Abandon on the desolate state of the sites of the Olympic Games in 2004 in [...]

MONO.KULTUR #32 / SOUNDBITE 03