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Monthly Archives: September 2012

VIVIAN GIRLS OUT SCOUTING

The world of Henry Darger is worth examining. The secretly written 15.143 pages long fantasy fiction masterpiece entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion is about a war between children-like characters with mixed genders. [...]

ANALOGUE PIXEL TOWER

Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond a.k.a. NOTsoNOISY landed his latest coup: the artist who catapults pixels and computer games into real life made these ultra fun video with 110 students manually moving windows and shutters in a 11 floor high-rise in Lausanne, Switzerland. What a great video, I just love it…

MONO.PUNKT #16: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2012

This year as every year, in autumn time, the mother of all art book fairs descends onto New York, where they do everything a little bigger and brighter than the rest of the world. Please come visit us at the New York Art Book Fair 2012, where we will share as usual a table with [...]

KYOHEI SAKAGUCHI

Our friends at Koi Klub have been working hard to make a special project happen tonight: Japanese artist and prime minister of a new state declared on a piece of wasteland in Tokyo, Kyohei Sakaguchi, will be opening a newly built Mobile House at Berliner Festspiele this evening. The house will be inhabited for three [...]

RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID

The International Center of Photography’s current show is a stunner, the best show on view in New York right now and a must-see for anyone interested in the political, documentary, and aesthetic potential of the photographic image. In fact, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life a must-see for anyone [...]

THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Amazing stuff. Retro photography blog from Chris Wild. Don’t know where to start – how about Victoria Beckham photoshoot from 1992…

Oh and also Scotch Hair Tape ads from 1970…

TUESDAY MUSIC: FLYING LOTUS

We had other things on our minds yesterday, but autumn is promising some great music, with The XX, Grizzly Bear and Flying Lotus all returning with new albums. Speaking of the latter, due out next week, and what a video, what a track.

THE ENGAGEMENT

Chloe Hooper had what she describes as a “dark night of the soul” when her latest book  The Engagement went to the printers. And it had to do with that monster best-selling book Fifty Shades of Grey. She was worried she had written the literary equivalent of the erotic best-seller, after all The Engagement does [...]

THE FINAL STRETCH

21 hours to go until our Kickstarter campaign for our first artist book with the amazing Robert Montgomery ends… Let’s make one last effort to push it – tell your friends, tell your grandparents, tell your neighbour, a good deed a day can make all the difference.

THE COMMENTATOR

“I always thought that it deserved better than lousy sports journalism; I thought it deserved to be sung about.” It’s Sunday, and hell is around the corner (it hit us northern hemisphere people yesterday, ready to take over the next couple of months), so do yourself a favor and support some goodness (it’s still possible, [...]