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DOTS AND INCISIONS

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes, published by London based Visual Editions, is not written by him but rather (die)cut by him! The writer of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes his favorite book The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz in order to cut and create a new story out of it. It is [...]

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THE WORLD IN LONDON

Monday, August 13, 2012

With the Olympic Games having come to a glorious end (already?), time to revel in the aftermath, or maybe go see an exhibition instead, for instance the brilliant photography group exhibition organised by the renovated Photographers Gallery, where they set themselves the task to track down a representative for every nation residing in London – [...]

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THE SERPENTINE PAVILION

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

For weeks now we’ve been wanting to let it elegantly slip in that oh, by the way, our hugely popular issue #22 with Ai Weiwei is dangerously close to being sold out, so if you should happen to want one, you should really go here now, and don’t say we didn’t warn you – but [...]

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DONLON BOOKS

Saturday, April 28, 2012

There’s an enjoyable interview with Conor Donlon of Donlon Books in the latest apartamento magazine. This independent bookshop is my type of bookshop, (and it also sells mono.kultur).
Donlon Books
77 Broadway Market
London

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PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED VS ICA

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Our favourite book fair Publish and Be Damned is back, and we were so excited about it that we promptly forgot about the deadline. And so, we won’t be there this time around, but plenty of other exciting titles will, so you should go anyway. And rumour has it there might even be a second [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: FOYLES / LONDON

Friday, February 24, 2012

When I was a student at art school in London, Foyles bookstore used to be a regular spot to hit for research, general browsing or simply to escape afternoon rains. Somehow the many floors and corridors and shelves crammed with piles and piles of books always had and still has a soothing effect on me, [...]

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ARCHITECTURE OF DENSITY

Friday, November 25, 2011

Actually, I’m pretty tired of the usual images of Eastern tiger cities – skyscrapers, people crammed in subways, shoddy alleyways – not that I’m not intrigued like everyone else by the rise of Asia, but I’ve just seen them way too often. No exception to the rule is German but China-based photographer Michael Wolf, who [...]

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WANDERING COMMA

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Opening tomorrow is Ryan McGinley’s new exhibition titled Wandering Comma (whatever that is supposed to mean…), at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, where he will be showing seven new large scale works – maybe for the first time functioning not so much as a series, but rather as single excerpts of his continuing practice of [...]

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ARCHIZINES

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Whereas, over in London, Elias Redstone, the founder of the online architectural magazine library Archizines, has curated a show of 60 architectural titles at the renowned Architectural Association, including our almost sold-out issue #18 on MVRDV. Follow his week of guest-posting some of his personal favourites over at It’s Nice That this week, or even [...]

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THE OIL TANKS

Friday, September 16, 2011

Tate Modern has announced the opening in 2012 of the first phase of its expansion plan, The Tate Modern Project. In 2005, Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned by the Tate to design a new development which would connect Southwark with the Thames and provide much improved open, public space. As part of this development, [...]

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