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Category Archives: night

GILDA, ARE YOU DECENT?

It is crucial to choose the right topic while procrastinating. Old movies, especially Rita, Ginger and Fred would be the ones to cure the Sunday/Monday blues with their charm and dances!

MONO.PUNKT #24: SALON LIGHT / PARIS

La littérature and les beaux arts are part of French culture as much as, say, a glass of red wine and a fat chunk of camembert, so it’s no surprise that Salon Light, the annual art book fair organised by CNEAI, should already invite to its 10th anniversary, celebrated in style with a pompous nuit [...]

LET’S GET LOST

Finally managed to track down the brilliant documentary Let’s Get Lost by fashion photography legend Bruce Weber on jazz legend Chet Baker in his final years, and what a film. If jazz is your cup of tea, then this is for you, and if it is not, it’s for you anyway. Maybe rather surprisingly fashion [...]

Berlin Nightlight

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently on board International Space Station as Commander of Expedition 35, observed a difference in Berlin lighting at night:
Berlin at night. Amazingly, I think the light bulbs still show the East/West division from orbit.
Christian Fritzkowski (artistic name?) explains: “East Berlin (more yellow on the right) uses more lamps driven by sodium gas, [...]

Maybe sleeping

There are many reasons to be a fan of Tilda Swinton. Nico of Thought Catalog found 22 more, how about this one:
She is currently sleeping in a box at the MoMa as part of an art installation. She has no scheduled appearance times and she can come and go as she pleases. Called “The Maybe,” [...]

BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE

My favourite time of the day is dusk when the sky starts to turn dark blue so I was most intrigued to hear about Steve McQueen’s current Temporary Stedelijk 3 project, Blues Before Sunrise. For two weeks (March 7 – 25) all 275 lamps in Amsterdam’s largest public park, Vondelpark will radiate blue light. Blues Before [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: KANGDING RAY

A little teaser by our friend Kangding Ray, who will be performing material from his excellent album Or at Berghain tomorrow evening, as part of Club Transmediale’s Raster-Noton night, which are always a treat, featuring new lecker material from the likes of Byetone and more. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

HÜTTENPALAST

Want to enjoy some camping-idyll in the middle of Berlin, also during the cold winter? Then the Hüttenpalast might be the perfect hotel for you – offering all the charms of outdoor camping – but inside!
Read the article by Tim Tolsdorff on Spiegel online (German / English) to learn more about these comfort sites under [...]

KILLING THE WINTER MOOD – FRIKK Festival 2011 & ONEBEAT

From 8th to 17th of August, FrIKK Festival will be happening at the Bethanien, right in the heart of Kreuzberg. The festival is a non-profit project that aims not only to give a platform for artists (working within all sorts of media) to show their work as also to donate all the profit to the [...]

BASED IN BERLIN

The exhibition based in Berlin opens next Tuesday, June 7 at 6 pm, showing the work of some 80 emerging artists who live and work in Berlin. The central exhibition will take place at the studio building in Monbijoupark in Berlin Mitte, offering one of the most amazing views on Berlin from its platform. Starting [...]