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WHITEWASHING

Thursday, June 14, 2012

These posters and ads have been gracing the streets and magazines in Berlin recently, to announce tomorrow’s opening of the hotly debated BMW Guggenheim Lab in the city. The Lab is a mobile container traveling to nine different cities in the world to host a series of talks, events and workshops on the theme of [...]

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POLITICS OF THE POOR

Friday, June 8, 2012

Pixadores are members of the Pixação movement in São Paulo. It’s a huge number of people from the lower class who use street art to express their political wishes through a language of tagging that they developed.
The photograph presents pixação tags, which are spread all over São Paulo, from public squares to rooftops and balconies of the [...]

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PICTURING ROCHESTER

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Jim Goldberg
Continuing its Postcards from America series (previous coverage here), Magnum has sent ten photographers to Rochester, New York, to create an visual archive of an American city. Rochester, former home of Kodak and in economic decline, seemed the ideal choice. Since each of the participating photographers possesses a very specific photographic style, House of [...]

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CHAOTIC AND POETIC

Monday, April 23, 2012

Melting, skeletal sculptures; order in disorder. Are the sculptures of Syrian artist Diana Al Hadid from a dystopian world?

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ACCIDENTAL ONES

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Forget everything you know about hipsters.  If you want to see the real ones without even making a true effort, here you go: The Chinese Hipsters!

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TOBIAS ZIELONY: MANITOBA

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Our ongoing obsession with youth has been the focus of many photographers these days, from our recent cover star Ryan McGinley to Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra (who has a grand retrospective at the Guggenheim New York upcoming this summer).
But none does achieve the curiously moving balance between distance and empathy like Berlin-based photographer Tobias Zielony, [...]

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Ready for Spring

Friday, March 23, 2012

We know most of us don’t own or rent a piece of land, don’t have gardens or spacious balconies and sometimes neither huge, tall windows (yes, we live in a big city), nevertheless let us tell you that you can still  get your hands dirty!
Terrariums and aeriums have never been as fashionable as they became recently. [...]

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THE BIG CRUNCH

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Raumlabor is a collective working on contemporary architecture, art and urbanism. Besides marketstand structures of Markthalle IX and an exhibition space for Transmediale 12, installations such as the lovely lady Rosy or the bug like structure, made out of used materials, are designed by these Berlin based architects.

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TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The exhibition of  Boris Mikhailov is opening today at the Berlinische Galerie. The Ukranian artist’s works document the social disintegration, poverty, harshness of everyday life and the absurdity that comes with these situations, mostly in Soviet Union times. The exhibition shows a selection of works from earlier periods till now, including the works produced [...]

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ARCHITECTURE OF DENSITY

Friday, November 25, 2011

Actually, I’m pretty tired of the usual images of Eastern tiger cities – skyscrapers, people crammed in subways, shoddy alleyways – not that I’m not intrigued like everyone else by the rise of Asia, but I’ve just seen them way too often. No exception to the rule is German but China-based photographer Michael Wolf, who [...]

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