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No No Tip

Monday, October 29, 2012

What does a hipster do when he realizes that his hipness won’t take him anywhere in life? He flips. But no tips.

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MONO.PUNKT #16: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

This year as every year, in autumn time, the mother of all art book fairs descends onto New York, where they do everything a little bigger and brighter than the rest of the world. Please come visit us at the New York Art Book Fair 2012, where we will share as usual a table with [...]

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RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The International Center of Photography’s current show is a stunner, the best show on view in New York right now and a must-see for anyone interested in the political, documentary, and aesthetic potential of the photographic image. In fact, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life a must-see for anyone [...]

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GIGOLO’S HAND ON A SILK STOCKING

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Writer of amazing texts and books such as ‘Against Interpretation’, ‘Marat/Sade/Artaud’, ‘Illness as Metaphor, and AIDS and its Metaphors’ or the exuberant essay for ‘Story of the Eye’, marvelous book of Georges Batailles. Tea with Thomas Mann, dinner with (Herbert) Marcuse, sex with F, thoughts on books, religion, life and lots were hidden in Susan [...]

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MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA…

Monday, September 10, 2012

…our favourite comic artist, like, ever, is opening a show, or rather two shows, in New York and Chicago, with drawings from his forthcoming magnum opus Building Stories (let this be all we need to say: 11 years in the making). What he had to say about it, in typically humble Chris Ware fashion:
With the [...]

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BERNADETTE CORPORATION: 2000 WASTED YEARS

Monday, September 3, 2012

In this modern age of polymath creativity and work-as-life/style, it’s common to meet an artist who also makes ambient house and brands on the side. But these myriad roles rarely cohere conceptually; they’re usually the product of simple hustling and blogosphere groupthink. Bernadette Corporation is the opposite of this. Since its inception in the early [...]

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RYAN MCGINLEY VS SIGUR ROS

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

It’s become somewhat fashionable for bands (who can afford it) to produce not just one or two videos, but one for each track of a new album, with inevitably varying success – but in the case of Iceland’s Sigur Rós‘ cinematic music, the conjunction of sound and image for once really makes sense. They have [...]

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SVPPLY

Monday, July 9, 2012

Svpply is a community of people discovering the products they love. This New York based startup manages to replicate the experience of window-shopping online (and it has quickly become a favourite online shopping destination of mine).

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A WEEKEND IN NEW YORK

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

It is sometimes surprising how easy it is to wake up Saturday morning in New York City and have no idea what to do with yourself. It’s not a question of too little going on, but of too much – New York is a constant sensory overload, and sometimes your mind and body just reject [...]

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TINGUELY LOVE

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Some of the reasons why you shouldn’t miss this documentary narrating the life of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely: his lunatic sculptures starting to move in uncontrollable ways (some of them even making music), his courage to destroy his own work(s) as in the case of ‘Homage to New York’ (1960), his collaboration with Niki de [...]

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