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SLIMTARRA

Need a change in 2012?
We recommend the SLIMTARRA wallpapers!
SLIM means clever, smart, cute in Dutch. And SLIM means slender or thin in English.
TARRA (Dutch for tare weight, empty weight, dead weight) is a nice word, like DADA or ANNA BLUME.
Every little while Extrapool in Nijmegen (Netherhlands) invites artists to design a SLIMTARRA wallpaper. The wallpaper [...]

READABLE ARTS

In the wake of the digital turn, the book is becoming a precious and extravagant superfluity and an aesthetic emblem. While the book is shifting from an inevitable cultural experience to a specialized one, the artist’s book undergoes an explosion of activity, proving once again that “when a medium dies, it becomes an art form.”
For [...]

SAVE THE DATE:

MISS READ invited publishers and artists to show their books –
for the first time with the participation and presentation of mono.kultur!
Dates: November 25 to 27, 2011
Opening hours:
Friday, November 25 and Saturday, November 26, 3 – 9 pm
Sunday, November 27, noon – 7 pm
KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Program and further [...]

Such a Heavenly Way to Die

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

HAVE A LITTLE BREAK …

… and draw a stickman!

AGAIN, TYPOGRAPHY

Mota Italic is a new gallery, opening this month in Berlin, dedicated to showcase typography, letters and type in relation to both art and design projects. Opening with the exhibition ‘CAPITAL: Berliner Buchstaben’, and with many others following, Mota Italic intends to support Berlin’s type scene and spread the interest in typography among a wider [...]

LITTLE & LARGE

Looking very much forward to meeting Glasgow based artist David Shrigley next Wednesday at the presentation of Wall Mounted Ear at KW in Berlin, a new edition released by Little & Large Editions.
Our mono.kultur issue featuring him and his truly enchanting drawings is one of my absolute favorites!
Wall Mounted Ear is made of polished bronze. [...]

CLOSE EYES TO EXIT

Befitting their slightly twisted sense of humour, our friends at the glorious illustration collective Le Gun decided to launch the fifth and latest issue of their eponymous annual magazine (unless it takes them two years to compile, that is) today, on April Fool’s Day. To mark the occasion in style, they’ve thrown in an exhibition [...]