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MONO.KULTUR #40: EDMUND DE WAAL

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Dear Friends,
we’re not quite sure what happened with that last year, and if anybody has seen it, please let us know. In the meantime, we are proud to return from our involuntary hiatus with a splendid new issue – mono.kultur #40, no less – with the wonderful British ceramicist, artist and writer Edmund de Waal.
Edmund [...]

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MICROSOFT & THE ART OF THE INTERFACE

Friday, November 20, 2015

Microsoft is turning 30 which, in human years, must translate into something like 120 or so. To celebrate the occasion, The Guardian examined Microsoft’s interface design of the past three decades, and gosh, how time passes.

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THE WORLD IS MY SUNSEED

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

It’s rare for an Instagram post to make the headlines: our former cover star Ai Weiwei apparemtly received his passport, after being forbidden to leave China for the last four years… It’s about time!

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Snowden Memorial (removed)

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Street art going “museum-quality” sculpture: Artists secretly installed an Ed Snowden monument in Brooklyn Park. But officials were quick to remove it.

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TIP OF THE TONGUE

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The legendary Glasgow-based record store Volanic Tongue is closing after ten years activity! Run by former Charalambides member Heather Leigh Murray and her husband and writer David Keenan, it was a very relevant place for experimental music. Specializing in new, second-hand & rare underground music and sub-cultural ephemera including books, magazines and DVDs. After closing [...]

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WILD COMBINATION

Monday, October 13, 2014

The long planned tribute to Arthur Russell Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell is now available to listen! The 26-track collection includes covers by Robyn, Blood Orange, Hot Chip, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart and many more. The tribute has been put together by AIDS charity Red Hot. Stream the compilation in full via npr!

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ZAHA HADID & SLEUK RITH

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Architect Zaha Hadid recently revealed the design of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia; a center for the commemoration of the Khmer Rouge era. The new institute will not only house the vast archives but also provide educational and cultural platforms including a graduate school focusing on human rights, a library and a museum as [...]

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LONG LIVE DEATH GRIPS

Thursday, July 3, 2014

[live tv] #049 Pt. 1-2 Death Grips – Guillotine from RaRaRa / Light & Noise on Vimeo.
As some may know–and more should know, Death Grips just announced their break up yesterday–for real this time. For four years they brought a barrage of hardcore noise-rap, ferocious performances, and a give-no fucks attitude that pushed the [...]

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BLOOMING POTT

Monday, June 23, 2014

Indie animation mainstay since “My First Crush,” (2007), her plaintive ode to infatuation, Julia Potts has in the last seven years only grown as an artist. Her most recent offering, “The Event,”  places her wry melancholy and signature animal-like creatures into landscapes that merge live-action images of Montauk and hand-drawn animation.  The digitalized special effects [...]

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BOFILLTOPIAS #01: LA FÁBRICA

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

With Spanish master architect Ricardo Bofill as the subject for our new issue mono.kultur #36, we’re going to focus on a few highlights of his singularly prolific and versatile career spanning five decades, since so many of his projects are just such good fun to examine.
And where better to start than at the mythical La [...]

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