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SOLO FOR…

Saturday, February 4, 2012

In the exhibition Solo for … Dan and Lia Perjovschi the ifa gallery Berlin presents two artistic positions that combine image and text in very different ways, respectively commenting upon current affairs from their own approaches.
Dan Perjovschi responds with his spontaneous, stylised, almost comic-like drawings to current socio-political conditions. Daily, Weekly, Monthly is a retrospective [...]

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DB

Monday, January 30, 2012

And, speaking of our friends at Raster-Noton, we should make sure to mention Japanese electronic wizard Ryoji Ikeda’s new audio-visual installation db which just opened at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof, and suffice to say, this is not to be missed.

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TONIGHT: HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III

Monday, January 23, 2012

Born in Warsaw (1966), trained in Grzegorz Kowalski’s legendary workshop at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Artur Żmijewski has been a leading figure of video art since the end of the nineties through a striking series of short works which display the crushed condition of the Western body in our inhuman societies.
He achieved international [...]

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JOHN MCWHINNIE, RIP

Thursday, January 19, 2012

John McWhinnie, book lover, dealer, and publisher, died earlier this month. McWhinnie, who specialized in counter-culture ephemera and art publications, was a huge presence in the insular, obsessive New York art book scene; in addition to the wonderful shop he ran with Glenn Horowitz, McWhinnie consistently had the most engaging booth at the New York [...]

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BOOK WORKS

Friday, January 13, 2012

I’ve received seven invitations now by the artist Martin Zet to donate one of my zero copies of Thilo Sarrazin’s controversial bestseller, conveying some shady views on Muslim integration in Germany. It is the first official act of the Berlin Biennale coming up this summer, which promises to be an interesting one, curated as it [...]

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GUGGENHEIM GEMS

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Imprint’s August Heffner reports the exciting news that the Guggenheim has digitized a host of out-of-print catalogues. This is wonderful news: not only are these publications valuable scholarly resources, but together they form an inspirational treasure trove (no surprise, considering so many were designed by Herbert Matter). Look at that Klimt \<>/ Schiele cover!

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Here from Above

Monday, January 2, 2012

195 Yachts, Barges, Cargo Lines, Tankers and Other Ships

120 Stadiums

Every Baseball Diamond in Manhattan

Jenny Odell collected some stuff for us, using Google’s Satellite View, and frames it nicely with a notion by Hannah Arendt:
…because human existence is conditioned existence, it would be impossible without things, and things would be a heap of unrelated [...]

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SLIMTARRA

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Need a change in 2012?
We recommend the SLIMTARRA wallpapers!
SLIM means clever, smart, cute in Dutch. And SLIM means slender or thin in English.
TARRA (Dutch for tare weight, empty weight, dead weight) is a nice word, like DADA or ANNA BLUME.
Every little while Extrapool in Nijmegen (Netherhlands) invites artists to design a SLIMTARRA wallpaper. The wallpaper [...]

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER, 1928-2011

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler, second-generation Abstract Expressionist and painterly innovator, has passed away. After studying art at Bennington College, Frankenthaler met and dated the preeminent modernist critic Clement Greenberg, and found her way into the burgeoning New York art scene of the 1950s. She met leading artists Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and her future [...]

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A TUESDAY SHRIGLEY SMILE

Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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