Skip to content

Monthly Archives: January 2014

THOUGHTFUL AMBIENCE

Friday, January 31, 2014

Brilliant news! Slowdive officially announced their reunion coming up this year! The shoegazer band split up in 1995 after releasing their fantastic record Pygmalion. Another reason to book our festival tickets for Primavera festival, where the band will perform. The  beginner’s guide by Fact Magazine lists all you need to hear to get started on the [...]

Filed in festivals, music, news, recommendations, releases | | Comments (1)

MONO.PUNKT #25: LA ART BOOK FAIR 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Don’t we all wish we were in Los Angeles right now, golden sunshine in our hair, casually dropping by the LA Art Book Fair – New York’s sunny counterpart – over the weekend and browsing some fine printed matter from all over the world. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones to [...]

Filed in books, events, summer | | Comments Off

PAY-PER-MINUTE CAFE

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

A lovely place in London has just opened by Ivan Mitin called Ziferblat, London’s first pay-per-minute cafe, Ivan began this idea in Moscow, opening his first cafe, he now has a few scattered across Russia and now London. The ideas simple, rather than paying for your nice piece of cake and coffee you pay 3p per [...]

Filed in food, friends, future, society | | Comments Off

MONDAY MUSIC: LUCRECIA DALT

Monday, January 27, 2014

Rather amazing: the wonderful Lucrecia Dalt.

Filed in mondays, music | | Comments Off

CLUB DECONSTRUCTIONS

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The perfect night out in London! Harmonic Series presents a special PAN showcase at the Southbank Centre. It’s a celebration of PAN’s new audiovisual direction, and five years creating adventurous electronic music. The line-up includes: A new collaborative piece by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey and legendary sound artist Florian Hecker, the club deconstructions of [...]

Filed in art, berlin, concerts, culture, dance, design, digital, events, london, music, new york, performance, recommendations, sound | | Comments Off

POSITIONING THE BODY

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the [...]

Filed in Body, art, conversations, criticism, culture, music, performance, publications, recommendations, releases, writing | | Comments Off

THE ADVANTAGE

Saturday, January 25, 2014

‘Depicting the fate of people living in a world of uncertainty,’ is how the renowned Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo describes the work of Michaël Borremans for his first major retrospective in Japan. ‘Utterly and mysteriously beautiful,’ is what we have to add, and in case you are not in Japan to catch [...]

Filed in art, exhibitions, recommendations | | Comments Off

SLOW SPEED TRAINS

Friday, January 24, 2014

There is always this moment of expectation when the subway train arrives at the station – beautifully captured by Adam Magyar from the other side, slowing down the footage of passengers on the platform to almost standstill and what’s more, to startling effect.

Filed in cities, documentary, dream, speed, time | | Comments (1)

I TRY TO CARRY BOOKS WITH ME WHEREVER I GO…

Thursday, January 23, 2014

via Book/Shop.

Filed in books, chance encounters | | Comments Off

SEE SOUND

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

How does one represent brilliance; it is easy to trace the lines of brilliance through narrative. Good (and bad) pieces have emerged doing the work of biography, oscillating between the less than miraculous Jobs to Paul Schrader’s seductive and experimental Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. However, it is hard to recreate the timbre that imparts [...]

Filed in music, opera, theatre, wisdom | | Comments Off