Ganesh’s digital collages and works created on site in Berlin will be presented at Gallery Nature Morte over the summer. The exhibition opens on Friday June 10, and runs until July 30.

So, what’s ‘Hate Mail’? For a small fee, the artist offers himself to write and send you a vintage postcard with a funny drawing and an offensive message on the back. The idea is to preserve traditional post mail and make sure people still have some fun by using it. And of course, you also get an original signed drawing.

The project is being so successfull that he had to update his site to inform people the project would be closed for a week so he could keep the pace with it.

Unfortunately for some, and fortunately for the ones who happen to live there, it will only be available to newspapers in the USA and Canada. Let’s hope it is a success so they consider extending the project also to our lovely corner of the world.

On Thursday Chris Ware will talk about his influences and aesthetics at the Indianopolis Museum of Art. Graphic desginer Chip Kidd will join him on stage. If there wasn’t that damn vast Atlantic, I’d like go there.

Feb 17th, 7pm

I only found out about the New Left Media last evening but I must, say since then I can’t stop but thinking about doing 5 minute breaks to go back to their page and check for more of their videos.

Super interesting interviews covering American politics, produced by a group of (apparently really young) students. A ‘must see’, not only for the subjects covered but also for the interviewees and specially the interviewer, who does a great job. Also, make sure you don’t forget to watch the ‘Sara Palin Book Signing – Interviews with supporters‘ video!

Featured in the show is Malik Sajad, a graphic novelist who examines the impact of India and Pakistan’s violent struggle over Kashmir on the lives of Kashmiris. Sajad’s political satire work has appeared in English and Urdu newspapers, and he has been called India’s own Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis).

The show also features the work of painter Sonia Mehra Chawla, installationist Suchitra Gahlot, photographer Rohini Devasher, architect and artist Asim Waqif, and politically-motivated multi-media artist Akshay Raj Singh Rathore. Chennai-based artists Kumaresan Selvaraj, Aneesh Kalode Rajan and Saravanan Parasuraman are also represented, as are expat Indians Khalil Chishtee and Pritika Chowdhry, who though based in New York still reflect on the politics of their home region.

This diverse group represents a new crop of rising artists who will challenge the established Indian art scene in the years to come.

- By Linda Green

Opening: 15 January, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition: 15 January – 12 February 2011
Nature Morte, Zimmerstrasse 90-91 (3rd Floor), Berlin
www.naturemorte.com

PS…
We warned you a few weeks ago about the impending death of the Estonian kroon. Those who forgot to exchange their now-obsolete Estonian currency will have one last opportunity to spend it at an event tonight in Berlin. The Eastern European culture magazine B EAST is hosting a party to launch their latest issue at West Germany in Kreuzberg, and true to their geographic roots they will be accepting Estonian kroon at the door as well as Euros. Entrance is 4€ or 60 Estonian kroon.

And that was it!

Since then I got caught in their web of highly developed narrative techniques and styles, sound games, and most of all, highly interesting subjects.

They start every podcast with a main subject on which they previously developed some research on, to then discuss it with different interviewees, questioning them, debating hypotheses and exploring the subject in every possible direction. The themes range from science to music, society, nature, etc., (they call it “a program about science and curiosities”) and it’s not that they reach any conclusions at the end! but that probably they will make you question simple things that you’ve taken for granted, that you never stopped to think about before, or most important –  make you laugh non-stop!

Make yourself a treat and download some of them to your mp3 player to listen to while going to work in these grayish-dark mornings. They will definitely lift your mood up for the day!

Iranian cartoonist, writer and director Marjane Satrapi, is enjoying her time in Cannes right now. Currently she is neither a member of the jury, nor is a film of hers in the competition. She still gets free handbags though. This summer she will start shooting her next film, an adaption of her 2004 graphic novel Chicken with Plums.

Here.