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MONO.EDITIONEN #05: CHRIS WARE

Friday, November 28, 2014

Dear Friends,
it is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore: Christmas Season is upon us, and where did the year go? But just in time, we are immensely proud to present our latest installment of mono.editionen, in the form of one giant poster, by none other than Chris Ware.
Because it is precisely those questions – the passing [...]

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FLOWER POWER

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Architectural insanity from MVRDV, our cover stars of issue #18: the Rotterdam-based architecture firm recently completed their first building in their home town, a giant covered market hall with a variety of high-end food stalls and regional farmers, in the shape of two residential buildings leaning towards each other in a giant sweep and fusing [...]

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EROTIC

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

That got your attention did it?
With cinema’s recent fetish for arthouse erotica in mind, here’s an literary ode to the body pleasures. Folch Studio erotic publication Odiseo is meticulously crafted such that it appears more a catalogue of contemporary nudes than of sensual acts. If you’re looking for something of similar caliber–but curated for the gentlewomen–model [...]

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“IS THE MUSEUM A BATTLEFIELD?”

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Filmmaker, visual artist, author Hito Steyerl asks:
“…armed forces fire flares to add to the confusing scene of giant smoke plumes, ambulance horns, and faces illuminated by mobile phone screens. At the Cultural Center, a brilliant, all-female group of culture workers and municipality officials discusses the role of art with me. I pan to frame [...]

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Miranda’s Trick: Free of Distractions

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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DAMN GOOD COFFEE!

Monday, October 6, 2014

By now everyone must have heard about the news: Nine brand new episodes of Twin Peaks will go into production next year to be broadcast in 2016! David Lynch has been teasing the show’s return on Twitter for a while, and now a teaser trailer that typically gives not much else away has been released. [...]

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WANNA PLAY?

Friday, October 3, 2014

On one of the most famous streets of Berlin, Oranienstrasse, in the heart of Kreuzberg, a performance in a glass-walled container has been taking place. In collaboration with Hebbel am Ufer, artist Dries Verhoeven is performing his piece Wanna Play? by living in the container. In this period of fifteen days the artist is communicating [...]

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MAY THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN

Thursday, August 14, 2014

With Instagram and virtually every other photographer shooting from the hip these days, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, that kind of snapshot photography was entirely unacceptable in a commercial context. With pioneers in casual snaps for high end fashion such as Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson having ascended to super [...]

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Historic Mobility & the Emergence of Cultural Hotspots

Friday, August 1, 2014

Art historian Maximilian Schich and design researcher Mauro Martino illustrate the historic mobility of intellectuals. The animation connects birth and death places through the centuries. It reveals the emergence of cultural hotspots like Rome, Paris as well as German Kleinstaaterei and the conquest of the new world.

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Cuts In The Middle

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Now that the Internets have survived this and Sir William Benjamin Bensussen aka The Gaslamp Killer has recovered just fine from his insane scooter accident – it’s been a year, and see above -, he’s going to go crazy (as usual) at Berlin’s Gretchen tomorrow night. Wicked!

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