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GRAND BOUCLE MOTHER DRUCKER

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mother Drucker, which opened about a year ago just around the corner from our studio, is the kind of place that in the age of the supposedly all-consuming, all-replacing Internet by all means should not exist. Dedicated to the art of screenprinting, it is part gallery, part workshop, as long as it involves manual labour, [...]

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OBSERVING WITHOUT PERSPECTIVE

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Miniatures create a new world by abandoning perspective. Various spaces positioned side by side tell several stories in one plane. Levni, one of the most famous Ottoman miniature artists who lived in 18th century, was known for his humorous way of depicting women figures or the intrigued life in the Ottoman Palace with its festivals [...]

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ANSWERING THE LOVE LETTER

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

He is back! The king of cheesy soul and R&B releases his eleventh studio album Write Me Back. Knowing R.Kelly for his traditional R&B aesthetic, here he springs a surprise by expanding the latest album with funk, disco and even tropical styles! Give it a listen!

R.Kelly
Write Me Back
Release date: 26 June 2012 via RCA Records
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MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Here is the legendary filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961) who worked with Duchamp back in 1943. Besides her stunning surrealist films, this astonishing woman was also a theorist, choreographer and a writer.

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That’s Twin Peaks

Monday, May 21, 2012

“Just keep building it! Just keep building it!” (Thanks, Mr. Jaar!)

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URBAN OPERETTA

Monday, March 26, 2012

R.Kelly’s legendary music-video-drama-series Trapped in the Closet is coming back! The next installments of the R&B musical will be broadcast “this year”, as IFC recently announced.
The first 12 instalments of Trapped in the Closet came in 2005, with additional 10 chapters in 2007, of course following several parodies on US-TV. If you haven’t seen the [...]

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A New Turn of the Screw

Sunday, February 26, 2012

A new edition, a new chance to discover the “ur-text of postwar fiction” – and indeed it feels like the only book to (re-)read right now, given the kind of soundbites that are going to show up here over the next few weeks…

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TWIN PEAKS: BACKSTAGE

Friday, December 9, 2011

Everyone knows the most popular serial drama/comedy/thriller ever broadcasted. Let’s think back to times when TV shows were meant to be serious and smart entertainment. Thanks to David Lynch.

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Fake Patois In Your Area

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The infamous Das Racist are currently on tour in Europe. Meet them “at the Kochlöffel/at the Wienerwald,” I guess, or, better yet, at the combination…

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FIRST READING

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Syliva Plath’s novel The Bell Jar was the first dangerous book that I ever read. This was the book that taught me that I should guard myself against literature, because novels will speak to me directly in the hours before I go to sleep, they will use my own voice, and they may never directly [...]

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