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THE COMMENTATOR

Sunday, September 23, 2012

“I always thought that it deserved better than lousy sports journalism; I thought it deserved to be sung about.” It’s Sunday, and hell is around the corner (it hit us northern hemisphere people yesterday, ready to take over the next couple of months), so do yourself a favor and support some goodness (it’s still possible, [...]

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Prenzlauer Berg, 1990: May 1st to July 1st

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Today Prenzlauer Berg is often referred to as the place where gentrification eradicated original local life, where and yoga studios wiped out the corner stores, where foreigners (or: simply Swabians) shut down night-life. 1990, in the legal dawn of the German reunification, East-German documentary maker Petra Tschörner investigated the old Prenzlauer Berg and asked how [...]

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SYRIAN DRAWINGS

Friday, August 17, 2012

It’s a rare and special thing these days for an illustrator to engage with political subjects, and looking at the amazing George Butler’s drawings from a recent trip to Syria, it makes you wonder why most illustrators even bother with drawing cars and cats when you could actually be doing something, well, amazing. It’s also [...]

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BLUE CAR ORANGE PUMPKIN

Thursday, August 16, 2012

The legendary Joel Sternfeld’s works are depicting the ‘American life’ since 1970s, capturing cafés, bars, ordinary moments of  life; drinking water, a mum carrying her children in a basket or a woman passing by in the street…
To learn more about Sternfeld, here is a video related to his exhibition in Amsterdam’s foam:

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THE BOOK COVER ARCHIVE

Friday, August 3, 2012

Book covers, in Germany, are mostly something to be ashamed of, for no good reason – it’s really inexplicable why virtually all German publishers have such appalling taste in design, or presume their readers to have. So forgive us for kindly pointing you towards the new and still in beta state website The Book Cover [...]

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NEVER SORRY

Monday, June 25, 2012

Officially, Ai Weiwei’s year of house arrest should have come to a close this week, but instead, the Chinese government decided to hang on to his passport, on new charges of ‘pornography and bigamy’. While his status worldwide seems to know no boundaries, at home in China his position is still anything but secure. If [...]

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TINGUELY LOVE

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Some of the reasons why you shouldn’t miss this documentary narrating the life of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely: his lunatic sculptures starting to move in uncontrollable ways (some of them even making music), his courage to destroy his own work(s) as in the case of ‘Homage to New York’ (1960), his collaboration with Niki de [...]

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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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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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Grandma Lo-Fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is a 70 year old Danish musician living in Iceland. She’s released 59 albums with her unique sound of lo-fi keyboard/percussion and field recordings and never played a gig in ther life because she’s too shy. She cooperated with Icelandic musicians like múm, Sin Fang and Hildur Guðnadóttir and contributed to the soundtrack [...]

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