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MONTGOMERY MUSIC

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

As an imaginary Fado song for sailors is how our first book artist Robert Montgomery imagined the words for his contribution to the first ever biennial in India – the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which also includes works by two other mono.kultur cover stars, Cyprien Gaillard and Ai Weiwei. Montgomery’s work was installed on the façade [...]

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FROM THE VAULTS: DANIEL JOHNSTON

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Recently came across this portrait, originally taken for a mono.kultur issue that never saw the light of day – our apologies, Daniel!

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PEAKS AND PERKS #02: 2012 IN DEATHS

Thursday, December 27, 2012

To file prominent deaths under ‘peaks and perks’ might sound a little macabre, but as every year, the world has become a little poorer for these extraordinary individuals passing away – all of them, we dare say, would have made worthy mono.kultur issues. So it goes:
The godfather of visionary architecture and mastermind behind the extraordinary [...]

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CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

It might be due to Munich’s Haus der Kunst’s continued practice of curatorial courage, or to ECM’s unique record of sonic and aesthetic single-mindedness, but I can’t think of many, or any, record labels to be honoured with a major retrospective in one of Germany’s best museums for contemporary art without it raising any eyebrows, [...]

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TRADING STYLE

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Fashion exhibitions are a difficult feat, even though they are wildly popular in terms of visitor numbers. And yet, clothes behind vitrines somehow mostly miss the point. A slightly different approach is taken by the ethnic Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, where tonight the exhibition Trading Style will open: presenting not only more than 500 fashion [...]

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THE SHUTTERED SOCIETY

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Berlinische Galerie stages the world’s first comprehensive exhibition of art photography in the GDR. Twenty years after the Wall, The Shuttered Society identifies traditions and trends while illustrating shifts in visual idiom and theme.
The retrospective thus contributes to the present discourse about photography that has unfolded in recent years with a flurry of exhibitions [...]

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LAST CHANCE

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Only on view until tomorrow, October 21, 2012, noon – 7 pm:
Wael Shawky. Al Araba Al Madfuna
Recipient of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2011
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Photo: Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, 2012
Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg

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Don’t border

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

More unity day stuff, on youtube or on Arte. And don’t forget the Mauerhasen.

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12 YEARS A SLAVE

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

With production of the film already underway in New Orleans, it’s a safe bet director, Steve McQueen’s next film 12 Years a Slave gathers award attention in 2013, with more stars than his previous films, featuring Michael Kenneth Williams, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Eiofor and of course Michael Fassbender, who is starting to form a Burton/Depp team with [...]

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VIVIAN GIRLS OUT SCOUTING

Sunday, September 30, 2012

The world of Henry Darger is worth examining. The secretly written 15.143 pages long fantasy fiction masterpiece entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion is about a war between children-like characters with mixed genders. [...]

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