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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
At the Bode Museum
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/30/at-the-bode-museum/
Playing the Building
(more photos) David Byrne’s installation transforms the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical instrument, but the mysterious noises that emanate from all corners of the delightfully dilapidated industrial space have more in common with a late-80s Grateful Dead mid-set midi-freakout than whatever usually goes by “music.” Waiting and sweating in line for my turn [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/06/playing-the-building/
Art with Saints
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects St. Anthony of Giovinazzo Feast on Mulberry Street
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/26/art-with-saints/
Art with Strangers: Olafur Eliasson
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is currently at MOMA and P.S.1. More Art with Strangers.
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/09/art-with-strangers-olafur-eliasson/
Berlin Faces
In no particular order: the guys from Babel, David Hudson of GreenCine Daily, Mama und Papa, the friendly proprietor of Absinthe Depot, Andew “Filmbrain” Grant, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Danny Kasman, Martin Scorsese, Charlie Watts, and a selection of medival statues from the Bode Museum, which you can also find in a flickr set that [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/01/berlin-faces/
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
Ecstatic worshipers in store-front churches, steel workers in their homes, the down-and-out inhabitants of Buffalo’s skid row: social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin was never interested in the well-to-do. Thus, the quote that serves as the title of Ezra Bookstein’s sharp and fully realized portrait of Rogovin, now 98 years old. In the fifties, Rogovin was [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/02/03/the-rich-have-their-own-photographers/
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