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Monthly Archives: February 2016

HUMBOLDT JUNGLE

Saturday, February 27, 2016

For Berliners, the story of the desctruction of the monumental GDR Palast der Republik in favour of rebuilding its predecessor of the Humboldt Schloss in all its architectural insignificance is a depressing example for city politics lagging miles behind the vibrancy of Berlin. But Berlin is also a city renowned for its stoic subversion, and [...]

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TOOTH AND NAIL

Friday, February 26, 2016

Gnashing teeth, bloody fists–Philadelphia artist Christopher Capriotti implodes the white cube with startling intensity. His  title (2016) is a searing take at the socioeconomic power divisions and uncomfortable complicity of all parties that underlie spectacle. Barely separated from the complacent gallery throng, the ring represents a violent almost utopian authenticity, with fighters of both genders [...]

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READ BY FAMOUS

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Read by Famous sell books that were owned and read by people who have achieved high levels of recognition in their particular fields. Not copies of titles they have read, but the actual books that these people owned and read. The proceeds from the sales benefit the book and literacy focused non-profits, Room to Read, Literacy for Incarcerated [...]

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HARD STUFF: PARKETT

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Constantly rubbing my eyes when I discovered a collection of the legendary art magazine Parkett in a small Spanish town called Cuenca this week:

The Parkett magazine was found in Zürich in 1984 by a group of friends, with the idea of generating an open exchange between artists and writers on art in Europe and the [...]

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RIP BIALETTI

Friday, February 19, 2016

My hero of the day is definitely maestro Renato Bialetti, whose father invented the iconic Bialetti coffee pot. But it’s the son who turned it into a monument in style at his funeral. What an exit.

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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

What does music from Hell sound like? No mortal transcription may exist except for a tiny patch of canvas butt in Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. And of course, Tumblr would be the one to play it. Listen to it here, or for a choral arrangement, here.

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MONDAY MUSIC: JAMES BLAKE

Monday, February 15, 2016

No video yet, but James Blake recently premiered on BBC Radio One a new track from his forthcoming album Radio Silence – we can’t wait.

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A LIFETIME

Friday, February 12, 2016

The 66th edition of the venerable Berlinale Film Festival is upon us, and it will feature an exclusive retrospective of the work of cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who, besides working for the likes of Rainer Fassbinder or Martin Scorsese, has also graced the cover of our humble publication with mono.kultur #19.
The legendary gentleman with a camera [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 38: MIRANDA JULY

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Ever since the release of her first novel, The First Bad Man, there seems to be an abundance of interviews with the wondrous and wonderful Miranda July, and that is fine by us (but we were there first…). I don’t think I’ll ever tire of reading a conversation with her, such is her unique charme. [...]

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GOOD NIGHT STORY_G

Monday, February 8, 2016

From ‘The Birth Of A Man’ by the Russian Maxim Gorky, whom we know in Berlin quite well.

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