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AI WEIWEI IN THE HALL OF FAME

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The venerable Tate Modern in London just confirmed rumours that our cover star Ai Weiwei has been commissioned as the 11th artist ever to show in the giant Turbine Hall at London’s South Bank this autumn. It’s something akin to winning the Oscar and another giant step in Weiwei’s mysterious career, which only really began [...]

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COLD TURKEY – AN INVITATION

Saturday, March 6, 2010

From April 1st to 30th, 2010 a drug detox residency will be offered by Hotel Marienbad at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Artists, curators, critics and all those professionally related to the arts are invited to apply. The Hotel Marienbad suite offers a confidential retreat secluded from the public eye. Your drug detox [...]

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DISCONTENT ARCHITECTURE

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Kaleidoscope magazine have invited Adam Szymczyk, curator of the Kunsthalle Basel and the Berlin Biennial in 2008 as well as staunch supporter of mono.kultur, to curate a one week film program at their project space in Milan, ‘addressing the present urban condition and reality of built environment, contemporary artists mine the mythos of modern architecture, [...]

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TODAY IN LONDON

Thursday, February 25, 2010

One Place, an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, is currently on show in London. It features hundreds of old glass windows taken from East Berlin building sites.
Chiharu Shiota, One Place, is at Haunch of Venison, London until 27 March.

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EARLY YEARS

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Contemporary art is having its moment in Poland these days. Museums get built, and new public as well as private institutions emerge. Artists’ names become common knowledge, their practice—previously ignored or misinterpreted—is widely understood and accepted today. It speaks for itself that the most central tract of land in the Polish capital will soon [...]

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NEW MATH

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A friend recently introduced me to the delights of New Math.  New Math is created by the American artist Craig Damrauer.  To see more New Math (and even order an equation-emblazoned T-shirt), click here.

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PICASSO VS. OLD SOCKS

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Imagine airport security opening wooden crates with art in it just to have a look like they do with tons of bags every day.
This is not too far away as can be seen here.

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A WOMAN WITH TASTE

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Leanne Shapton is the author of the book Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry which I have mentioned here before. She recently started writing a column titled We Three Things for T (New York Times Style Magazine). She has contributed for [...]

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TURN YOUR RADIO ON

Friday, February 12, 2010

Tonight the exhibition Sounds / Radio – Art – New Music, curated by Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, and Katrin Klingan, opens at n.b.k. in Berlin:
During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was [...]

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HENRIK OF ALL TRADES

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Fashion prankster Henrik Vibskov will be showing some graphic works tomorrow at Pool Gallery in Berlin. If you don’t know what to make of Vibskov, neither do we. Some adore him, others can’t take him seriously, while we’re just puzzled. But our guess is, this is exactly the way he likes it.
Nonetheless, let the facts [...]

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