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Monthly Archives: September 2012

BENCH YEARS

Saturday, September 22, 2012

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The London Design Festival, the stalwarts of modern taste that is Established & Sons have commissioned 20 designers to design a bench to mark each year of the festival, which are all currently on display in the Italianate surroundings of the John Madejski Garden at the centre of the [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 15: PAUL CHAN

Saturday, September 22, 2012

A little tidbit that’s worth savouring by artist Paul Chan in the latest issue of 032c, which is as usual highly recommended.

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ECHOES OF VOICES UPDATE #07

Friday, September 21, 2012

Robert Montgomery’s light installation at the former swimming pool Stattbad Wedding in Berlin, as part of his Echoes of Voices project… and yes, this is where we will have our launch party in mid-October!
In the meantime, 69 hours to go until the end of our Kickstarter campaign… So if you were thinking about [...]

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PRISONIA

Friday, September 21, 2012

The wonderful thing about photography is that while the medium might find it hard to reinvent itself, the world is full of unsuspected treasures and secrets that are just waiting to be unveiled by photography and never fail to surprise. Enter David Leventi, who is somewhat of a genius architecture photographer, even topping his amazing [...]

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RENDEZ-VOUS WITH PARIS

Thursday, September 20, 2012

In Berlin, we take the bus 100 when we want to do a little unofficial sightseeing tour of the city. In Paris, they do that slightly differently, or at least in 1976 they did. (thanks Don Koi)

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Prenzlauer Berg, 1990: May 1st to July 1st

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Today Prenzlauer Berg is often referred to as the place where gentrification eradicated original local life, where and yoga studios wiped out the corner stores, where foreigners (or: simply Swabians) shut down night-life. 1990, in the legal dawn of the German reunification, East-German documentary maker Petra Tschörner investigated the old Prenzlauer Berg and asked how [...]

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GLASWEGIAN VISITORS

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

This years Master of Fine Art graduates at the Glasgow School of Art, take their exhibition Don’t Leave Me This Way to Berlin. Since the Art School in Glasgow has spawned some of UK’s most important artists, we highly recommend to see the show:
GSA. MFA International Show 2012: Don’t Leave Me This Way
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz [...]

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A RUSSIAN GATHERING

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Amazing song from the Berlin based Canadian musician, Chinawoman, whose voice leads to melancholia…

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Close, Closer

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

In the context of Lisbon international’s Architecture Triennale, taking place between 12 Sep – 15 Dec, ‘Close, Closer‘ comes up as a series of exhibitions and public programmes which aims to challenge and question the role of architecture in contemporary society.
If physical attendance is something I (and possibly you) won’t be able to guarantee, the website [...]

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ECHOES OF VOICES UPDATE #06

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Photographing Mr Robert Montgomery yesterday in Berlin…

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