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Monthly Archives: May 2013

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DUMBO FEATHER

At what point did we separate good value from good values?  At what point did we allow, ‘hey, this is good value’ to simply mean, ‘hey, this is super cheap’? Money, Money, Money. The current issue of Dumbo Feather looks at our relationship with money and asks such questions. From conversations with Monocle’s Editor-in-chief, Tyler [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 20: JOHN GIORNO

Poetry legend John Giorno’s take on Twitter in the April issue of Interview (where you can also find out about Andy Warhol’s physical endowments, should you be interested…)

SLOW SUMMITS

Today’s a nice day for everyone waiting for the release of Slow Summits, the latest record by Glasgow residents The Pastels. Even though it was a long time in the coming (first full-length album in 16 years!), it was worth waiting, especially for tracks like ‘Summer Rain’ and ‘Check My Heart’. A triumphant return!

The Pastels [...]

Monday’s Free Mixtape

Hype Williams’ Inga Copeland just dropped some understated dopeness in the form of a new mixtape entitled Higher Powers – fall for it over here.

MONDAY MUSIC: BOARDS OF CANADA

There are, of course, less roundabout ways to announce a new album than quietly dropping a few vinyls on Record Day with obscure messages that create a laboriously coded puzzle saying in the end: June 10 2013. But then again, if you are called Boards of Canada, chances are you might have the sort of [...]

TEDDY GRAY’S SWEET FACTORY

To continue with the theme of Britishness, Martin Parr’s wonderful short film about a sweet factory in Birmingham is as about as picture-perfect ‘British’ as it gets. The 20 minute long documentary follows Betty and Teddy Gray, owners of one of the only companies left in Britain that are yet to go online or [...]

MARMITE

You can divide the world into those who like and those who don’t like Marmite, or at least the Anglo-Saxon world, since the rest of us are likely not to have heard of Marmite ever before. So for the uninitiated, the BBC’s Good Food section (and I can hear a roar of cynical sneering coming [...]

KAPOOR IN BERLIN

Martin-Gropius-Bau now hosts a large exhibition featuring sculptural works and installations of widely acclaimed contemporary artist Anish Kapoor. What a treat.
Kapoor in Berlin
May 18th – November 24th

Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7
10963 Berlin

MONO.PUNKT 18 & 19: COPENHAGEN & HONG KONG

Tonight at 17h is the kick-off for not just one but two fairs of a kind at the opposite ends of the world, united by a thin thread of both featuring our humble adventure in print among their wares.
‘Art Books, Milk & Mayonnaise’ might sound like a typically Danish eccentricity, but for good reason, since [...]

40723

If there is such a thing as ‘Asian Photography’, then Li-Han Lin is living proof of a distinct eastern aesthetic – because I can’t imagine a European photographer capturing German suburbia in any way like this.
Says the Taiwanese-German artist: ‘The title of the exhibition 40723 refers to the postal code of Hilden, a little [...]