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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Berlin Series #01: Bootsbau

Cities like Berlin can be overwhelming in its (abundant) cultural offer. Museums, galleries, bookshops, shops, bars and cafes’ openings spread faster than fire and it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. How many times one just ends up staying at home simply by not being able to make a decision? Of [...]

Old Men Shopping

Old German men in supermarkets. And who was first: Karl or Friedrich?

THE CHANEL KETCHUP

After his first time in a supermarket, Karl seems to like the atmosphere. The show of the new collection of Chanel took place in Grand Palais, where transformed to an idiosyncratic supermarket.

MONDAY MUSIC: LYKKE LI

Short and sweet: Lykke Li’s new little gem I Never Learn.

FOUND AGAIN

Found again, following National Geographic Found.
A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic.

MUCKED UP

Bored with the usual cinema fare?  Look no further.  L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the cinema fray with his operatic River of Fundament, a collaboration between him, several powerhouse thespians, Gaspard Noé, Jonathan Bepler, and…Norman Mailer?!  Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy [...]