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Hidden Moms

I thought Radiohead’s new app could do the trick, I thought looking at images of the late Leonard Knight’s (rip) Salvation Mountain could do it, and I also tried Shoshi Games for longer periods of time, and yet this book keeps popping up in my mind: Under the title The Hidden Mother, Linda Fregni Nagler [...]

FUTURE PERFECT

It’s a bit late to be hyping this now.  Or perhaps we are just very foresighted.
In any case, Plural Projekt was/is (will be again) a Dresden-based artists collective started by five students from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: Anna Grützner, Diana Welmeier, Denny Brückner, Patricia Detmering, and Benjamin Hummitzsch.  After a year of planning and [...]

IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

Acid Drop

Here’s some Acid you should drop.

LESSER KNOWN ARCHITECTURE

It’s rare that we will recommend the Brandenburg Gate or the Reichstag when people ask us what to see when coming to Berlin. Not that these are a waste of time, but there are other places and sights woven into the fabric of our lives in the city that we will feel much closer to. [...]

FROM THE VAULTS: DANIEL JOHNSTON

Recently came across this portrait, originally taken for a mono.kultur issue that never saw the light of day – our apologies, Daniel!

A SECRET TREASURE UNRAVELLING

I’m still speechless by the work of Vivian Maier and how her photographs have been secretly stored away for about sixty years. John Maloof, who found this treasure, has now collected about ninty percent of Maier’s work. Considering Maier photographed around one roll a day during her whole adult life, this sums up to an immense treasure of [...]

BOOM

Complicated emotions while hearing this incredible voice of Antony… Isn’t that Marina who is standing near the door at the left side? Oh yes it is!

Glitch hunt

So what do you think of The New Aesthetic?

Ed Kleinholz

I said, “I want you to have done something on this case. And if you haven’t done anything on this case”—this was on the phone—I said, “If you haven’t done anything on this case, I’m going to come down and I’m going to fuck TWA over to the extent you’ve fucked me over.” He said, [...]