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Monthly Archives: September 2013

MONO.STUDIO: TSESAY AW 2013 CAMPAIGN

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

We’ve been doing the occasional jobs and commissions in art direction and design and writing and and and over the years, and slowly, slowly one might be tempted to call it a studio in its own right. One of the more exciting projects has been to develop an advertising strategy for the New York fashion [...]

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NERVE RAG

Monday, September 23, 2013

Though I’m sure many have heard of  (and read from) it, this post goes to Merve Verlag,  mono.kultur’s neighbor during the MISS READ Berlin Art Book Fair.  The quintessential philosopher’s publication since 1970, it has introduced to the intellectually voracious such venerable minds as Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.  In contrast to the stagnancy that usually pervades academia, [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: DARKSTAR

Monday, September 23, 2013

Electronic sadness for a grey Monday, hello.

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TIN CAN TOILET PAPER ROLL

Sunday, September 22, 2013

‘If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world…A mistake. That’s what makes the poetry.’
Miroslav Tichy
The man of bedraggled cameras made out of cardbored tubes, tin cans, toilet paper rolls, etc…

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PLATEAU EFFECT

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Seemingly interesting dance piece by choreographer Jefta van Dinther and the Cullberg Ballet investigating body and raw materials. Remaining performances in Stockholm, Vienna and Paris.

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BOOKSTORE OF THE MONTH: COPYRIGHT / GENT

Friday, September 20, 2013

In the lovely cities of Ghent and Antwerp in Belgium, you will find the no less lovely art bookstores of Copyright. Run for 25 years by Hilde Peleman, they are a picture book story of personal investment or, on a broader scale, how the world of books and the world of art merge and complement [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #21 & #22: BERLIN VS NEW YORK

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Berlin is the new New York, it is often being said, but what’s for sure is that the New York Art Book Fair is the mother of all art book fairs, including the little Berlin offspring Miss Read. As it happens, the dates for both coincide this year, with both opening today through Sunday. Miss [...]

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BERLIN MEETS GLASGOW

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is a 3-day festival of innovative, diverse and highly acclaimed visual art, film, performance, music and design from Glasgow, presented at the Volksbühne Theatre and BQ, during Berlin Art Week 2013. THE GLASGOW WEEKEND is co-curated by Berlin-based gallery BQ and SARAH LOWNDES (author of “Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 22: DAVID REMNICK

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Iconic editor of The New Yorker (which is apparently being redesigned) David Remnick in a great essay with American publishing heavyweights by Port magazine proclaiming ‘The New Golden Age’, in print, of course…

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Fundamentals Shopping Mall

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Portuguese town of Óbidos has long been known for its medieval cuteness (while earlier it was regularly presented to the queen of the day to demonstrate the king’s affections, now it is continuously admired by senior citizens of northern European countries and photography classes with substantial equipment).
However, in the midst of souvenir shops and [...]

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