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MONO.PUNKT #14: WHAT WE MAKE WITH WORDS

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

This nice exhibition around words – aptly subtitled What We Make With Words – has been going on at Glasgow’s venerable Centre for Contemporary Art for almost two weeks now, but what’s really exciting to us is the adjoining art book fair taking place this Saturday, including yours truly, live and in the flesh. Because [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: BANANAFISH BOOKS / DALIAN

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Anyone who has ever been to China will have experienced how difficult it is to get foreign magazines there, let alone any magazines that are worth the paper they are printed on. This is mainly due to the fact that the distribution of printed matter is still overseen by the Ministry for Communication, and importing [...]

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ALL THAT I AM

Friday, December 9, 2011

Lost for words so I’ll mention some words that I’m reading… I am really enjoying Anna Funder’s first novel, All That I Am. I also really enjoyed her first book Stasiland which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004. I would even say that All that I Am is one of my favourite [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #13: MISS READ

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Ah yes, it’s that time of the year again: Idealistic young men and women flock to the grey pastures of Berlin to unleash their pretty books and magazines on art and the like on idealistic young men and women who can think of nothing better to do on a weekend than browse pretty books on [...]

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IT CHOOSES YOU STORE

Sunday, November 20, 2011

A store based on the book by the fabulous Miranda July.
It Chooses You Resale Shop
Partners & Spade
40 Great Jones
NYC 10012
Open until December 11, 2011.

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FINE BOOKS MAKE FINE TWEETS

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Personally, I haven’t really invested much time in Twitter, mostly because I didn’t quite understand its appeal. Where’s the focus? But of course, I knew there must be good stuff out there, I only couldn’t be bothered to look out for it.
This might all change now that I noticed Bernd Kuchenbeiser – the man who [...]

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SOULA PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Now that you’ve seen us dancing to some unlikely tunes (last week, thanks to Chris Taylor), why not talk about Robert Sylvester Kelly for a minute: He may or may not be about to drop a memoir, amazingly titled Soula Coaster: The Diary Of Me (he is the true head of headlines, you know?), and [...]

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READABLE ARTS

Monday, November 14, 2011

In the wake of the digital turn, the book is becoming a precious and extravagant superfluity and an aesthetic emblem. While the book is shifting from an inevitable cultural experience to a specialized one, the artist’s book undergoes an explosion of activity, proving once again that “when a medium dies, it becomes an art form.”
For [...]

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SAVE THE DATE:

Monday, November 7, 2011

MISS READ invited publishers and artists to show their books –
for the first time with the participation and presentation of mono.kultur!
Dates: November 25 to 27, 2011
Opening hours:
Friday, November 25 and Saturday, November 26, 3 – 9 pm
Sunday, November 27, noon – 7 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Program and further [...]

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HAPPY TWELFTH BIRTHDAY PRO QM!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Happy 12th birthday Pro qm! Pro qm was opened twelve years ago, in July 1999. To celebrate this milestone, they have asked twelve designers and artists to design twelve different cloth bags. Starting now, in November, a new bag will appear each month, exclusively available in the bookshop, for as long as supplies last. Åbäke [...]

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