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Monthly Archives: March 2014

SUNDAY, 11 AM

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Ever wanted to go people watching in front of Berlin’s famed Berghain club on a Sunday morning? So did photographer Oliver Eglin, who took a series of portraits of clubbers post-euphoria, or as he puts it, ‘in the transitional stage between the fantasy of Berghain/Panorama and the blandness of the real world’. But rest assured, [...]

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WORDS ON FIRE

Friday, March 21, 2014

Opening tonight on the beautiful premises of AJLArt is a group show of power trio Lawrence Weiner, Ian Hamilton Finlay and one Robert Montgomery – all concerned with words and art.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Montgomery & Lawrence Weiner
22 March – 26 April 2014

AJLArt
Potsdamerstr. 98a, 2. HH
10785 Berlin

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SARAH MOON

Friday, March 21, 2014

The timeless and painterly photographs of Sarah Moon, truly makes a category of its own. From fashion photography to film, she has a library of mesmerizing image making behind her. The Michael Hoppen Gallery in London now shows some of her work in color until April 5th.
Micheal Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London SW3 3TD

Sarah Moon – [...]

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BONUSMATERIAL

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Two brilliant reissues have been announced recently: Grace Jones‘ 1981 LP Nightclubbing, which has been remastered from the original analogue tapes and expanded with 12″ mixes. This version also includes two unreleased tracks, including the fantastic Tubeway Army’s cover Me! I Disconnect From You!

The second is Any Other City, the legendary record by Glasgow’s Life [...]

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MINI STREET ART

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

If you have ever asked yourself who is doing those lovely little cork figures found to be on several street signs throughought Berlin, and what they actually mean, I can tell you now: It is yoga teacher Josef Foos, trying to cheer up people with mini-sculptures doing yoga positions, indicating that there is some studio [...]

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A School For Design Fiction — Book Launch @ Motto

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Book launch tomorrow, Wednesday 19th, at Motto Berlin.
From 7pm, a short reading and screening.
‘A School for Design Fiction’, by James Langdon, was convened on 8 November, 2013 at Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig. This itinerant school employs the curious genre of ‘design fiction’ to assert storytelling as the primary function of design, assuming that every [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: PLACEBO

Monday, March 17, 2014

Placebo are, well, still Placebo, but their latest video by one Saman Kesh and narrated by none other than Bret Easton Ellis is rather a delight – certainly the first music video ever to end with a quiz, seriously, and including such a mind-boggling amount of information to process that it will take all [...]

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Monday Madness All Around

Monday, March 17, 2014

It’s a monday, and we are all going back to the hamster wheel. Artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley were living and working in their 30-feet-hamster-wheel at Boiler for only 10 days until March 9th. It’s a bit like an architectural remix of Mad World. Have a good start to the week everyone!

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TRUE DETECTIVE

Saturday, March 15, 2014

I came across True Detective when friends were talking about it being the best TV show that they had seen since The Wire.  While I think it is really difficult to compare anything to The Wire, True Detective is good, really good!

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DE-BUG

Friday, March 14, 2014

German De:Bug magazine was one of the first titles to offer me work as a photographer, and I spent a few years working quite closely with them; so even though we ended up going different ways eventually, I am sad to learn that after 16 years and 181 issues, the Berlin institution are currently preparing [...]

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