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Monthly Archives: February 2013

HILMA AF KLINT

Sunday, February 17, 2013

The anticipated retrospective exhibition of Hilma af Klint has now opened at the Modern Museum in Stockholm. Like Kandinsky or Mondrian, af Klint (1862-1944) was influenced by spiritual movements and has been considered to be ahead of her time in the way she incorporated her beliefs in her abstract work. In her will she wrote [...]

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NOSTALGIA / OTHERS

Friday, February 15, 2013

Edward Newton spent a year for searching photos of  the Others‘ in one of the flea markets in Brussels.  The book is designed by The Office of Optimism.

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MONO.KULTUR #33 / SOUNDBITE 01

Friday, February 15, 2013
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MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Thursday, February 14, 2013

‘The new album is available to buy now,’ is all that went up about 10 days ago, on My Bloody Valentine’s website that looks like a cheap generic blog page – so anyone might be forgiven looking a little incredulous, given that My Bloody Valentine’s last album was released 22 years ago. And for anyone, [...]

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IN OUR MAILBOX

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Thanks!

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TOWER TRANSFORMATION

Thursday, February 14, 2013

How to renovate council housing and tower blocks in a contemporary way has been a pet obsession of French architects Lacaton & Vassal for quite some time now, and successfully so. See the results and arguments for it tonight at the DAZ, where they will exhibit their recent transformation of Parisian apartment block Tour Bois [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: FOALS

Monday, February 11, 2013

As Foals are releasing their third album, Holy Fire, today, which picks up straight where their last effort Total Life Forever left off, here’s the first and  obviously stomping single Inhaler…

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PRINCE VS. SALINGER

Monday, February 11, 2013

Here is an interesting article by Kenneth Goldsmith, the writer of Uncreative Writing, about Richard Prince’s  book(!) The Catcher in the Rye and how he sold ‘pirate books’ in Central Park.

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LES CHRONIQUES PURPLE

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Les chroniques du mois de janvier/The January chronicles from Purple co-founder Elein Fleiss’s new site Les Chroniques Purple – Gaelle Obiégly, Soledad Manrique, Anders Edström, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Kyotaro, Jeff Rian, Amit Berlowitz, Danielle Vallet Kleiner, Laetitia Benat, C.W. Winter, Guillermo Ueno, Anne Frémy, Althea Saint Amand, Pablo Guerra, Shuling Cheng, Stephen Sprott, Federico Nicolao, Henry Roy, Asako Kitaori, Charlotte Rolland, Pablo Durán, Judith Affolter, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Olivier Kervern, Elein Fleiss, Cosmic Wonder Light Source, Julian Gatto & Mercedes Villalba, Fernando Mariani, Yannick Haenel, Takashi [...]

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ANONYMOUS PRESS

Friday, February 8, 2013

Anyone can be their own publisher these days, and so can you – with Anonymous Press, it will take about, oh, 20 seconds… All you need to do is to type in the subject of your book – ‘Retrograde‘ being the contender of the day, obviously – and Anonymous will do the rest for you. [...]

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