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Monthly Archives: November 2012

Doki Doki

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Let’s face it: The world needs more Fairhorns. And more jumpsuits (that’s pretty mono, for sure). Okay, and also more of this.

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CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

It might be due to Munich’s Haus der Kunst’s continued practice of curatorial courage, or to ECM’s unique record of sonic and aesthetic single-mindedness, but I can’t think of many, or any, record labels to be honoured with a major retrospective in one of Germany’s best museums for contemporary art without it raising any eyebrows, [...]

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THE TRAVEL ALMANAC

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The fourth issue from Berlin based magazine – The Travel Almanac has just been released, and it looks really great, featuring interviews with filmmaker Harmony Korine and performance artist Kalup Linzy, pick one up quick as they move fast.

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MONDAY MUSIC: KEATON HENSON

Monday, November 19, 2012

How is that for an emotional sucker punch on a Monday morning? Mr Keaton Henson’s Sweetheart, What Have You Done to Us? is easy to answer – well, you made us cry or you made us laugh, depending on your emotional state of mind right now, but anyone who can transform an (almost) entire video [...]

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A SECRET TREASURE UNRAVELLING

Sunday, November 18, 2012

I’m still speechless by the work of Vivian Maier and how her photographs have been secretly stored away for about sixty years. John Maloof, who found this treasure, has now collected about ninty percent of Maier’s work. Considering Maier photographed around one roll a day during her whole adult life, this sums up to an immense treasure of [...]

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THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Utopias and dystopias have generated  several scenarios throughout the history related with spaces. In order to search for new perspectives Crap=Good collaborated with theorists, artists and architectural offices as well as several participants invited by an open-call. As a result of this attempt, now, we can interact with the book ‘What is the future of architecture?‘ in Motto Berlin [...]

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TIME TRAVEL RECOMMENDATION

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Safety Not Guaranteed is a comedy/drama directed by Colin Trevorrow starring Aubrey Plaza who you might know from the absolutely brilliant Parks and Recreation. Her character is a disillusioned intern at a Seattle magazine who gets to investigate a story on a self-proclaimed time traveller who is looking for a travel partner through a classified ad. Surprisingly [...]

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POP SONGS

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Beck is back, and not in any way we would have imagined. For his latest album, Beck teamed up with our favourite publishing house McSweeney’s (founded, of course, by Captain Dave Eggers, gracing the cover of mono.kultur #25), which is due for release in early December. OK, you say, so why would someone like Beck [...]

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RESPECT

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Legendary name Björk just keeps being unbelievable! Thrilled by the new video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

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ONE ON ONE

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Alone in the space with the art, one-on-one with a work that was made for the single individual, in a direct and inescapable interaction—intimate and confrontational.
The exhibition ONE ON ONE at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, opening next Saturday, enables the artists to directly address the singular viewer. Individual, self-contained spaces that are [...]

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