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Monthly Archives: June 2016

GLAZED EYES

For your consideration, Cabinet Books’ Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations by poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum.
Notes on Glaze collects Koestebaum’s “Legends” columns for Cabinet. From 2010-2015, he wrote captions for photographs selected by the magazine’s editors, provided he was not acquainted with the image beforehand.
What results resembles a sophisticated Pictionary, in which the caption [...]

THE FLOATING PIERS

For three weeks, you can walk across water on bright orange ribbons to the island San Paolo on Lake Iseo in Italy, in the latest project by Christo (and the first he realised since the death of his partner Jeanne Claude). Sounds great to us: ‘Those who experience The Floating Piers will feel like they [...]

TATE & SWITCH

Tomorrow will see the public opening of the new annex to the ever-growing Tate Modern, named Switch House, extending the already vast space of the Tate by another 60%. Of course it looks splendid, built as it is by the Tate’s longterm collaborators Herzog & de Meuron, and for those of us who can’t go [...]

UNREALIZED

In an era of conceptual art, it’s ironic  that not all concepts are consummated. Bringing them to light, if not life, Hans Ulrich Olbrist with Julieta Aranda, and Anton Vidokle has created a Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP), an archive of “the forgotten projects, the directly or indirectly censored projects, the partially realized projects, the misunderstood projects, [...]

DARK MOFO

Dark Mofo.
A festival somewhere over the rainbow.
10-21 June
Hobart
Australia

MAGCAST #01: APARTAMENTO

Our friends at magCulture have launched a new series of podcasts, discussing one particular title with other magazine makers. First in line is the hugely popular Apartamento, praised and dissected by the charming Danielle Pender of Riposte and, you guessed it, our humble selves. Here is hoping that magCulture had the grace to take out [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: PLAID

Coming out this week: Plaid’s latest offering, The Digging Remedy. Lovely, lovely.

CHINESE WHISPERS 35

Kind words over at magCulture on our new issue mono.kultur #40 with Edmund de Waal. Imagine us blushing.