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MONO.KULTUR #40: EDMUND DE WAAL

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 [...]

REFLEKTOR DISTORTION

Opening tonight: Reflektor Distortion by our first ever cover star, Carsten Nicolai, at Galerie Eigen+Art, experimenting with hree states of a reflection: mirroring, distortion, and disturbance. Sounds like prime Nicolai to us, and see you there.
Carsten Nicolai: Reflektor Distortion
21 April – 28 May 2016
Galerie Eigen+Art
Auguststraße 26
D – 10117 Berlin

NESTED

Half-Waif ’s music has an ethereality that feels the good kind of religious. The free expansiveness of her music belie an exquisite compositional technique that create a variegated almost architectural soundscapes for the careful listener. For fans of Austra.

HOME AS A GIANT NOTEBOOK

Did you know that Florence Welch is influenced a lot by legendary painter Frida Kahlo and even has a section dedicated to the artist?

YOUR BODY IS A LANDSCAPE

In his Metamorphosis series, Frederic Fontenoy seemingly pushes the visual logic of McGinley’s naked romps to the extreme. Here again are the pastoral settings and wan bodies of the latter photographer’s images, but a time lapse renders the human subjects intelligible. They become stumps of skin, trees of muscle, a naval notch, and a gesture a [...]

HUMBABA

Besides the well-known Greek mythology, Mesopotamia hides epics consisting of several myths. The Epic of Gılgamesh from Ancient Mesopotamia, is one of them which is written in Sumerian and Assyrian. As the first written language in the world, Sumerian has no reminiscence to any language in the world.
Apparently, the well known stories in the Bible, Torah [...]

KINSPIRACY

There are few magazines that have gathered a following as loyal as the folks around Kinfolk, which turned into somewhat of a phenomenon over the past few years. Who are these people? The Kinspiracy didn’t have to look far. Similar minds think alike.

THE FIRST BAD MAN

Wondrous and wonderful Miranda July has just announced for January 15 the release of her first novel (which she already mentioned in our issue way back in, geez, 2008), The First Bad Man, which, according to the press blurb, is ‘a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny—so Miranda [...]

Our Arrangement Hasn’t Changed

So much goodness floating around these days, we have to get rid of some early year-end love: Amen Dunes has a new video (below) and plays Berlin and Cologne next week (plus, Son Lux will also be in town), Run The Jewels 2 is Murder Mayhem Melodic Music indeed, Efterklang’s Vincent Moon-produced The Last Concert [...]

DAMN GOOD COFFEE!

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. [...]