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PERADAM

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

One of the most interesting things John Kelsey has written about is the modern labor/time complex, especially in the arts. His point, in “Escape from Discussion Island” and other essays recently collected in Rich Texts, is essentially that members of the contemporary culture industry are always, already at work. Our downtime is commodifiable to the [...]

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GRAPHIC DESIGN: NOW IN NEW YORK

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Graphic Design: Now in Production was a monumental survey on contemporary design and its development within a changing digital world put on by the Walker Art Center last year, and which will now open at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York. And we’re honoured to have mono.kultur come along and be included in the [...]

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HANNA LIDEN

Friday, May 18, 2012

In Hanna Liden’s Ghost Town, a wonderful new series of  photographs now on view at Maccarone, everything is covered with some kind of downtown detritus. Faces are masked in Have A Nice Day plastic bags, bodies clothed Canal Street Fuck You t-shirts, flowers painted Terrence Koh Black, classical busts etched with graffiti. Even the images [...]

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OF MICE AND MEN

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Last night our cover star Ryan McGinley’s latest exhibition opened in New York, with entirely new work that seems to be leading away even further from his road trip pieces that he became famous for, into a more abstract and graphic, if still equally colourful realm entirely his own.
Ryan McGinley: Grids / Animals
May 2nd – [...]

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TALDANS IN JUDSON CHURCH

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A performance by the Turkish contemporary dance company Taldans in Judson Church New York City where the legendary Judson Dance Theater was performing in 1960s.

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Paul Graham: The Present

Sunday, March 18, 2012

One of the best shows currently up in Chelsea, Paul Graham: The Present is a thrilling, engaging, and slightly frightening mediation on how we understand and experience day-to-day life in the city. Many pairs are hung near the floor of the gallery, which explicitly inserts the viewer into the scene pictured, and challenges the viewer [...]

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LLIK YOUR IDOLS

Saturday, March 10, 2012

“Llik your Idols is an intimate survey of a VERY particular time in downtown NYC – the mid 1980s – when the fallout of a decrepit city manifested itself through the psyches of young and wild artists, musicians and filmmakers banging into each other in the scum drenched streets. Sex, drugs, violence and rock’n’roll took [...]

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CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Last June, we talked to artists Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner about how their solo practices have evolved out of their collaborative outfit Jules Marquis. It seems they’ve been on quite a roll since then. Last September, Turner had a solo show at the Journal Gallery, where he showed site-specific works that expanded on his [...]

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MILLENIUM MAGAZINES

Monday, February 20, 2012

Today opens a rather epic survey on independent publishing in the wise halls of the MoMA Library in New York, accumulating more than 100 magazines on art and design from all over the world – and of course, also from Berlin, including our humble little adventure in print.
Here is what they have to say about [...]

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YOU KILLED ME FIRST

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course [...]

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