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Your favorite air freshener is New Car.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

You can never get enough lists.

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Unerzählt bleibt die Geschichte der abgewandten Gesichter

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Two weeks back, a few of us had this semi-serious discussion about whether or not art should generally make you think about your own mortality, whether it should sort of transport you to a place that’s indeed a bit closer to that terminal breath – or not. Obviously, we didn’t come to a conclusion that [...]

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Sanctuary

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Sternberg Press is about to launch the new book of Brian Dillon!
Sanctuary is a fiction set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in Northern Europe. The structure, a Catholic seminary built in the 1960s and abandoned twenty years later, embodies the failure of certain ambitions: architectural, civic, and [...]

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BASED IN BERLIN

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The exhibition based in Berlin opens next Tuesday, June 7 at 6 pm, showing the work of some 80 emerging artists who live and work in Berlin. The central exhibition will take place at the studio building in Monbijoupark in Berlin Mitte, offering one of the most amazing views on Berlin from its platform. Starting [...]

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ANGRY OLD LADY

Friday, May 20, 2011

Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize winner and most recently Booker Prize winner, made an elderly lady very angry. 72 year old Carmen Callil was until recently one of three judges who decided who gets awarded the Booker Prize. The passionate decision of the two other judges to award North American writer Philip Roth made her resign [...]

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I would like to be smarter

Thursday, May 12, 2011

I had a conversation last night with a man who is working to develop neuro-enhancers. Do you take them yourself? I asked, casually. I wondered secretly whether the field of neuro-enhancement research was progressing at a faster rate than all the other neurosciences.
He said that he did not. He is happy with the [...]

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THE MORE THE BETTER

Friday, April 15, 2011

If you thought we already had enough bookstores selling international ‘creative’ magazines and books in Berlin, think twice! ISSUE Berlin has just recently opened its doors at Kastanianallee 58. We love magazines, books and printed matter in general, as you might know. And we also love good excuses to cycle to Mitte in the upcoming [...]

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READING ROOM

Friday, April 15, 2011

We can think of no better place to read mono.kultur issue #24 with Cyprien Gaillard’s interview than on top of the “beeramid”, Cyprien’s large-scale sculpture at KW in Berlin, built out of 72,000 bottles of Efes beer. Approximate duration to read Cyprien’s interview: 3 Efes beer!
The ‘reading room’ is open until March 22, 2011:
KW [...]

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And But So

Monday, April 11, 2011

As The Pale King is about to conquer and destroy (the novel will be published later this week), DFW is back in the news. Says Franzen: “At the level of content, he gave us the worst of himself: he laid out, with an intensity of self-scrutiny worthy of comparison to Kafka and Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky, [...]

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Winning Numbers

Friday, March 18, 2011

It is unimportant to me whether anyone reads these poems / or their assessment of them should they, I do not care under / whose name they are published, nor could I care less what / literary critics say about them, praise or condemnation, / nothing could be more vapid than some academic advanc- / [...]

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