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PROSE OF NO HARM

Saturday, December 5, 2015

There is always place for just one more tote bag in our wardrobe, or there will have to be for Raymond Pettibon’s charity design for The New York Public Library. It comes at a price, but then again, 100% will go to the Library’s special collections. The sort of sponsorship we actually enjoy – only [...]

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SOME WORLD AFTER ALL

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Remember when Banksy was actually a guerrilla street artist? Last week the artist debuted his “bemusement park” Dismaland in Weston-super-Mare, England. And no, it’s not a ripoff of Paul McCarthy’s WS show. The park features collaborations with 58 artists including Damien Hirst and Jimmy Cauty, and sets with Banksy’s trademark satire. Cinderella’s carriage crash sprawls [...]

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KIDS VS COMMERCE

Friday, July 24, 2015

Anyone with kids will relate to children’s direct, uninhibited and vivid response to the world as a refreshing change of view – funny at times, surprising at others, but always incredibly precious to see a reaction unfettered by intellectual reasoning. So Yolanda Domingez‘ genius project Ninos versus Moda to ask a series of 8-year-olds to [...]

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REVEAL AND RELIEF

Monday, October 20, 2014

It is interesting – scary, as well – how power interprets certain things and engenders the ‘truth’(!). Recently, London police arrested street artist Banksy on the charge of ‘graffiti, public vandalism, criminal mischief, public indecency, resisting arrest, money laundering, criminal conspiracy and racketeering’. Beyond that, the police department revealed the artist’s identity with photos of him [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #36: RICARDO BOFILL

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Dear Friends,
‘It is enough to say that Ricardo Bofill is one of Europe’s most famous and prolific architects of the last century. To add any more is to inevitably leave out too much.’ With these words we begin the journey of our new issue mono.kultur #36 into the mind and work of [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BLEACHERS

Monday, April 14, 2014

We were going to post the new video by Bleachers, I Wanna Get Better, directed by girl(friend) Lena Dunham, but alas, we can’t watch it – because we live in Germany. Anyone here will be familiar with the words coming up as above, which refer to a stalemate between the German GEMA, a notoriously bureaucratic [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 21: CARL ANDRE

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

True, how true. Sculpting legend Carl Andre.

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Kickstart an Institute

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Now only 10 days remain of the (proposed) Marina Abramovic Institute’s ambitious Kickstarter campaign.
With the goal of raising $600,000 to fund the design phase of the project – which involves the architectural might of Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) – there’s still time to chip in, should [...]

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EVOLUTION

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Before and after: Tuba Babuna in 2008 and 2012
Some months ago antievolutionist show girls of Adnan Oktar in Turkey were introduced to the world by Amsterdam based artitsts Pınar&Viola in Dazed Digital. What happens when an antievolutionist evolves, and turns into a hybrid being without even recognizing? See, evolution exists! Whilst claiming Darwin was wrong [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DUMBO FEATHER

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

At what point did we separate good value from good values?  At what point did we allow, ‘hey, this is good value’ to simply mean, ‘hey, this is super cheap’? Money, Money, Money. The current issue of Dumbo Feather looks at our relationship with money and asks such questions. From conversations with Monocle’s Editor-in-chief, Tyler [...]

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