Culture / Arts
Art Market Briefing
Issue 63
The new international photography fair in London, a new gallery in Toronto and the Frieze show in New York.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 3 May
I'd like to teach the world to sing
M24 researcher Fernando Augusto Pacheco is off to Malmö in a couple of weeks to cover the Eurovision Song Contest – and he can't wait. Now he just needs to convince everyone else that it's the equivalent of the World Cup…Dreams do come true. On 18 May, the largest and campest music event in the world will take place in Malmö – and I will be there.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 2 May
Service with restraint
A restaurant that aims for a relaxed atmosphere is to be commended – but your best friends should be sat around the table with you, not taking your order.When I started learning English, pretty much the first thing I was taught was that when you meet someone in the UK or the US you say, “How do you do?” and the other person replies in the same manner: “How do you do?”
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 May
And the winner is...
This week the US welcomed its first openly gay professional team sports athlete. But will it change attitudes where more games are played – in the playground?There were few things that I hated more than the moment on the school timetable marked “sports”. Perhaps it was the brutal “games” we had to play for what I can only imagine looking back were the teachers’ slightly perverse…
Culture / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Tuesday 30 April
Making a meal of it
The crowning of El Celler de Can Roca as the world's best restaurant is a deserving win but let's not confuse tasty cuisine with high culture.The food sections of newspapers around the world are today plastered with photographs of chefs in tuxedos. The Spanish Roca brothers have done it – their restaurant El Celler de Can Roca has been named the best restaurant…
Culture
Culture, 81
Monday 29 April
Robert Bound visits Paris Photo in LA, we get check out Portuguese film at the 10th edition of Indie Lisboa, meet the director of a documentary that tells the musical story of Muscle Shoals in Alabama, and enjoy live music…
Culture
The Review, 80
Saturday 27 April
The bigger picture on both the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and Sony World Photography Awards with Francis Hodgson, we welcome back Joe Muggs for some musical recommendations, and take in some of the films on offer at…
Culture
The Stack, 35
Saturday 27 April
Tom Edwards gets reading tips from Apartamento's editor-in-chief Marco Velardi and Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald. Plus, a report on Public Offer – an independent magazine conference in Melbourne.
Culture / Travel
Monocolumn
Friday 26 April
Mining a rich seam
Golden Week is holiday season in Japan, making this a precious time for the tourism market at home and abroad.Today is unofficially the start of what is known in Japan as Golden Week. A string of four national holidays interspersed over seven days, it’s one of the longest periods of collective time off in the Japanese calendar. The…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 April
The exciting side of Brussels
The capital of EU bureaucracy sheds its less-than-thrilling image when Art Brussels comes to town.It’s rare but invigorating when a city surprises me. "Cutting-edge" and "hip" are not necessarily the first words to come to mind when thinking of Brussels. The heavily administrative grip of European institutions has put…
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 23 April
Play time
The games available on smartphones and tablets can drive a daily commuter in Hong Kong to distraction.It’s not rare to see fellow travellers on the bus or train in any global city using their mobile phones or tablets as entertainment during the morning or afternoon commute. As the newly experienced marvel of Hong Kong’s…
Culture
Culture, 80
Monday 22 April
Poet Murray Lachlan Young drops by to talk nonsense verses, we learn how South Korea's soft-power sensation Psy makes big money from all those YouTube hits, and there’s a Midori House session from US country-music star…
Culture
The Review, 79
Saturday 20 April
A critique of London’s Argentine Film Festival plus some new releases with Karen Krizanovich, we also get advice on what to do in Paris this weekend, and visit a new Renaissance exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence…
Culture
The Stack, 34
Saturday 20 April
Bloomberg Businessweek creative director Richard Turley joins us with Debbi Evans – editor of new women’s magazine, Libertine. Plus, we look at new 3D-printing publication Print Shift with its editor Marcus Fairs.
Culture / Arts
Finishing touches
Issue 62
The Rijksmuseum’s overhaul has taken 10 long years. However, it is finally ready to reopen its doors to reveal an interior revamp that is almost as impressive as the wealth of art it so beautifully displays.