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Monthly Archives: January 2013

HELP WANTED ON MARS

Mars One is looking for astronauts. Before you apply, I recommend you read The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody.

MONDAY MUSIC: SUZANNE VEGA

Classics, old and new.

TEENAGE SHYNESS

Wonderful footages from Roy Andersson’s A Swedish Love Story used for Thieves Like Us.

THREE TIMES A LADY

Finally! After a long break, Destiny’s Child release their first single since 2004. Even though the highly expected reunion song is not really mind-blowing, it revives the sound of Destiny’s Child with some contemporary rattling breakbeat. Nuclear will be also on the compilation Love Songs, which will be out on January 29. Until then you can [...]

10.01.2013

FOOD FIGHT

Every year almost everyone attends neverending Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinners but most of us don’t celebrate things as Marie I and Marie II, Ruth and Idgie from 90s or Laurel&Hardy do.

MONTGOMERY MUSIC

As an imaginary Fado song for sailors is how our first book artist Robert Montgomery imagined the words for his contribution to the first ever biennial in India – the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which also includes works by two other mono.kultur cover stars, Cyprien Gaillard and Ai Weiwei. Montgomery’s work was installed on the façade [...]

FROM THE VAULTS: DANIEL JOHNSTON

Recently came across this portrait, originally taken for a mono.kultur issue that never saw the light of day – our apologies, Daniel!

SHOMEI TOMATSU

Rest in Peace.

The Pink Pipes of Berlin

‘Some say Berlin is young, hip and artsy. I say it’s funny because it’s got pink pipes,’ says photographer Robert Hermann.