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DEAR GREEN

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dear Green is the title of an exhibition which brings together artists from two cities, Berlin and Glasgow, in an ambitious large scale interdisciplinary show within the old good depot and railway station of Moabit. Spanning an eclectic range of work the show brings two communities of artists together for the first time. From moving image, installation [...]

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ACCIDENTAL COOL ART

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Should we take a moment to consider the threat of careers in the art world due to the Internet? For instance, what is Richard Wentworth to do now that you can find the real thing on Tumblr, with Accidental Cool Art? (Which is, incidentally, really entertaining.)

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I TRY TO CARRY BOOKS WITH ME WHEREVER I GO…

Thursday, January 23, 2014

via Book/Shop.

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BLEACHED COLLAGES #2

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Collaborations can generate amazing new things, but also bring up the best of each contributor. This might be the case in one of the most exciting fashion-art-collaborations. After seeing so much fashion design displayed in art institutions over the past two years, no wonder that the line starts to blur. The Fashion Weeks of the [...]

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DON’T MAKE FUN OF OTHERS

Monday, December 16, 2013

Throwing back to our launch-screening a couple of weeks back, one question: did Marina make You cry?
If you didn’t, it’s my obligation to bad taste that I recommend you take some reformatory lessons from the Marina Abravomic Made Me Cry tumblr.  The grandiloquence of empathy will persuade a few milligrams of salt water from the [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DAY JOB MAGAZINE

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

For all of you who feel like your job is pointless or lame, doomed to vanish in the rising tide of white collars and blue chips…well maybe it might be, but Day Job Magazine doesn’t care.  A rather sociological songbook for the unsung heroes of everyday life started in 2012, it features utomechanics, barbershops, calligraphers, and [...]

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WONDER

Thursday, October 10, 2013

‘When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.’ R.J. Palacio Wonder
I came across this really lovely book, Wonder while at a ‘Tell me what to read’ session at the Brisbane Writers Festival this year. It is a book written for 9-12 year olds but it wonderfully crosses over to an adult [...]

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BEETHOVISION

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

While the craft of classical music courts notoriety for its mathematical complexity, its interpreters often express themselves in literary rambunctiousness and visual cues, relishing in matching timbres with colors, flourishing upon movements hippos and dancing flora a la Fantasia.  Floating above the soup of sentiments, Jorinde Voigt charts soundscapes according to an invented emotional notation, you [...]

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MONIE MORE MUSIC

Monday, October 7, 2013

Because you need a bit of a punk prayer to uplift the post-debauch haze and back-to-school daze.  Drop your shades and get your schwagger back with VUKOVI.

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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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