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Monthly Archives: October 2014

ZAHA HADID & SLEUK RITH

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Architect Zaha Hadid recently revealed the design of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia; a center for the commemoration of the Khmer Rouge era. The new institute will not only house the vast archives but also provide educational and cultural platforms including a graduate school focusing on human rights, a library and a museum as [...]

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Good night series_B

Friday, October 10, 2014

Middleage philosophy by Anselm von Canterbury ad absurdum.
Here is Jorge Luis Borges and his geniuos parody on the ‘onthological’ evidence of god.

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I DON’T CARE ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART ANYMORE

Friday, October 10, 2014

David Byrne, his funny and precise usual self, on a lacklustre art world.
Artwork by Marcel Storr

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MONO.KULTUR #37 / SOUNDBITE 03

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Running through those lovely big printing machines today: mono.kultur #37.

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NIGO GOING GONE

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

A few days ago, Nigo–designer, DJ, and producer–put his things up for sale; and where else but at Sotheby’s? When asked why, he cited his 25 years in fashion–and why wait to have a sale of estate until you’re dead? Appropriately, the spectacle is a €3.55 million caricature of the excess and solipsism clinging to [...]

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LESS FREE-FORM

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Kindness, the solo project of British singer Adam Brainbridge, announced his second album Otherness and shared a new song called This Is Not About Us. Besides that it is a cool 80’s-throwback track, the video is dominated by the simple style and the absolutely brilliant choreography that is performed by Brainbridge and the second person [...]

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Miranda’s Trick: Free of Distractions

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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FRIENDS WITH BOOKS

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Save the date:
Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, December 14, 2014, 11am–7pm
Location: Café Moskau, Karl-Marx-Allee 34, 10178 Berlin
Free entry
The organizers about the fair:
“The fair is Europe’s premier festival for artists’ books and periodicals by artists. In 2014, a conference, series of talks, panel discussions, and presentations will explore the cutting [...]

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DAMN GOOD COFFEE!

Monday, October 6, 2014

By now everyone must have heard about the news: Nine brand new episodes of Twin Peaks will go into production next year to be broadcast in 2016! David Lynch has been teasing the show’s return on Twitter for a while, and now a teaser trailer that typically gives not much else away has been released. [...]

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STRANGE PLANTS

Monday, October 6, 2014

Strange Plants, was first published earlier this year. The book features the work of 25 artists—from oozing paintings of rotting cacti to eerie, mesmeric photos of the leafy kudzu vine—and discusses the role plants play in the artists’ personal lives. Strange Plants was featured on The New York Times T Magazine, It’s Nice That, Nowness, Another Mag and Sight Unseen, among others, [...]

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