Culture / Sport
Ahead of the game
Thursday 10 July
When spending billions on sporting events, nations often have to promise that infrastructure, services and investment will follow as a legacy. Monocle’s Steve Bloomfield is wondering what Brazil’s might be.
Legacy is a much-abused word when it comes to international sporting events. Every World Cup or Olympic Games has to have a legacy – improved transport infrastructure, urban regeneration, investment in schools and sport.…
Culture / Society
A chorus of dissent
Wednesday 9 July
In an effort to update a classic, musical maestro Andrew Lloyd Webber is shoehorning rap music into a new production of his stage show ‘Cats’. Just another example of unnecessary modernisation, says Monocle’s Dan Poole.
Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer and the ever-magical Mr Mistoffelees must be curious, despite the well-known dangers such a stance poses for their species. “Why,” the stars of hit musical Cats will be (cautiously) wondering, “has…
Culture
Culture, 143
Monday 7 July
Robert Bound chats with Irish art-dealer Lorcan O’Neill about his new gallery in Rome, we hear about the forgotten genius of US street-photographer Vivian Maier, get the lowdown on Portugal’s fado music – the saddest tunes…
Culture / Economics
Fast movers
Monday 7 July
When once rough and ready neighbourhoods become just a little bit too clean and comfortable, it’s often time for creatives in the area to be moving on. Just don’t call them hipsters, says Monocle’s Megan Billings.
Last week New York magazine declared, “The Bedford stop is dead.” Bedford Avenue is my home stop on Brooklyn’s L train and I think this statement was already widely known when a shiny new Dunkin’ Donuts appeared just opp…
Culture / Entertainment
Weekend Agenda
Saturday 5 July
This weekend check out the images of an American photography great in New York, catch up with the legacy of a French design master in Paris, and enjoy a new album of upbeat pop from Brian Eno and Karl Hyde.
This weekend stop by London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) for the Artists’ Film Biennial 2014, a four-day celebration of the moving image inspired by international artists. This year’s edition features talks and…
Culture
The Stack, 97
Saturday 5 July
A look at some tasty print morsels with David Lane of ‘The Gourmand’. Plus, we check out ‘Brot’, a German publication focused entirely on bread.
Culture / Architecture
Art smarts
Issue 75
Find some locals to design a modern art gallery, find lots more locals to frequent it and suddenly find yourself with an international success: welcome to Goma.
Culture / Sport
We’d rather bicycles than balls
Tuesday 1 July
M24’s Tom Edwards concedes that the Tour de France has had its image problems but argues that the sport has made more progress than football when it comes to swerving gross commercialisation.
The Tour de France is the greatest annual sporting event in the world. This week the 101st edition of the classic cycle road race begins not in France but in Yorkshire, right here in England, against the beautiful backdrop…
Culture
Culture, 142
Monday 30 June
Robert Bound sits down with artist Tracey Emin to discuss the sale of her iconic unmade bed, writer Will Hodgkinson discusses his formative years in English suburbia, we meet filmmaker Tom Berninger and his brother Matt …
Culture / Arts
Duvet day
Monday 30 June
As an iconic work of contemporary art goes under the hammer in London tomorrow, culture editor Robert Bound assesses the importance of Tracey Emin’s unmade bed.
Tomorrow Christie’s will sell one of the two most famous works of art made in the last 20 years. When I interviewed Tracey Emin about “My Bed” last week she said that she didn’t really make it: that it made her. It did. It…
Culture
The Stack, 96
Saturday 28 June
Tom Edwards checks out the latest independent magazine offering with Marc Valli, editor of Elephant magazine and owner of Magma bookstores. Plus, we go to Lisbon where Cabide magazine is rejecting both print and the web.
Edits
The Weekend Edition, 4
Saturday 28 June
On this Weekend Edition special, Georgina Godwin meets two talented authors and hears about the redesigned family bookshop that is stocking their work. Nick Harkaway talks about his new book ‘Tigerman’ – all about ex-col…
Culture / Entertainment
Weekend Agenda
Friday 27 June
This weekend see the works of a controversial modern-day pop-art phenomenon in New York, enjoy another creative side of David Lynch in Tokyo, and check out the new album from Icelandic band, GusGus.
New York’s Whitney Museum holds its final exhibition at its Breuer building HQ this weekend on Madison Avenue before relocating next year and it’s a huge figure in art to see the site out – Jeff Koons. The US artist, who…
Culture / Sport
A home win
Friday 27 June
The unpredicted success of Brazil’s staging of the World Cup means the nation’s citizens are currently riding a wave. Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco looks at why it’s a case of so far, so good.
I don’t want to sound smug about it – but we did it. After an incredible barrage of negative coverage, everybody was expecting carnage during the World Cup in Brazil including many of my fellow Brazilians. But what we’ve…