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June 05, 2008

Umelec 1/2008

The new Umelec 1/2008...

- Interviews filmmaker Jim Hollands about Here.
- Brutally dissects the art world and instructs you on survival within it, with some chapters from Pablo Helguera's invaluable and hilarious 'MANUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART'
- Asks why the Taliban's statue-wrecking mattered so much
- Peruses Sofia-based artist Luchezar Boyadjiev's expenses claims
- Continues to recount the modern history of Czech Art
- Surveys Moscow architecture, or what's left of it
- Interviews cult American weird guy Joe Coleman on his dark psychedelic visions
- Revisits a strong influence on Coleman, the schizophrenic art of Adolfo Wolfli.

... and much more ...

Discover Umelec here, or at their London home DIVUS UNIT 30 on Saturday.