he first Time Out—a printed guide providing up-to-date cultural events in London—was published in 1968. Today, Time Out appears in over 30 cities around the world from Abu Dhabi to Zagreb, and defines itself on its web page as a “company…providing the latest, most reliable and informed information on what’s happening anywhere in the world”
This expansion isn’t merely due to the acknowledgement…
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Vienna is known for its stable administration, which provides a consistent political climate. The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has held the position of mayor
of Vienna since 1945. In the last decade, however, there has been a restructuring that featured the privatization of structures previously been under public control—at least the Austrian private companies (GmbHs) with close ties…
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Ever since the late 90’s, Céline Duval has been collecting photos: amateur snapshots, postcards, photos cut out from magazines, as well as her own pictures. Out of this collection, which the artist calls documentation céline duval (without any capital letters) she has edited a series of publications: prints, books, as well as a magazine, mailed directly to her subscribers: “La revue en 4 images”,…
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Graz as a platform for Art Graz as a platform for Art from Eastern and Southern Europe
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Erwin Wagenhofer’s Let’s Make Money is a film about the financial crisis that takes a look at the conduct and consequences of worldwide financial transactions. The film came out in September, a successor to his previous documentary We Feed the World, which focused on the globalization of food production.
After three years of research around the globe, Wagenhofer returns to reveal capitalism’s…
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Jacques Tati, as this piece will explore, is an early participant of the proto-postfordist avant garde in the middle of the 20th century. Film critics often misunderstand Tati’s work as a criticism of civilization and a denunciation of the unreasonable demand of modernism. They especially misinterpreted Tati’s first feature film, Jour de Fête, in this way, due to its idyllic framework (and, above…
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