Culture / Arts
Paris Photo LA
May 2013
We head to Hollywood to shoot the world's most celebrated photographic art fair, this year taking place for the first time at Paramount Pictures Studios in LA.
Culture / Arts
Art in Berlin
March 2013
Berlin’s vibrant arts scene is getting serious and growing up. Creatives are making real investments in the city to transform its unusual spaces.
Culture / Film
Berlin film scene
February 2013
The Berlin International Film Festival is one of the most influential showcases in the world and part of Germany’s rich cinema tradition. Join Monocle for a look at the city’s relationship with filmmaking.
Culture / Film
Doha Tribeca Film Festival
November 2012
Political revolutions and their aftermath are fertile conditions for filmmakers. Monocle took a front-row seat at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, to witness the cinema of change emerging in the Arab region.
Culture / Photography
Prix Pictet - Power
October 2012
The prestigious Prix Pictet is an annual prize for photography focusing on the environment. Following themes that have included water, earth and growth, the message for 2012 is power.
Culture / Photography
Arles Photography Festival
July 2012
What Cannes is to film and Venice is to architecture - Arles is to photography. Our Monocle film crew headed down to the South of France for the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles - the world's leading photography…
Culture / Media
The Monocle Culture Briefings
May 2012
Take your seats, sit back and enjoy a sample of the music and film highlights in the June issue of Monocle.
Culture / Retail
Novel Ideas – Tsutaya
February 2012
As the big media store chains disappear, Japan's most successful book, music and magazine seller has opened a project that challenges everyone. We visit the floors of a refreshed retail landscape.
Culture / Arts
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: London Galleries
November 2011
From cutting edge upstarts to blue-chip stalwarts, London's art galleries are ever innovating with new spaces and new ideas. Monocle visits four that each in their own way show the art scene to be as bold as ever.
Culture / Music
Paleo Festival
August 2011
The summer festival season is in full swing, and the Paleo Festival, held outside Geneva in the sleepy town of Nyon, offers an alternative to some of its grubbier European siblings. With the mountains on one side and the…
Culture / Radio
City Voices - Chicago
July 2011
Rick Kogan has been a newspaperman in his hometown of Chicago for over 40 years. These days he has a Sunday morning radio show in addition to a column at the Chicago Tribune, and in both his mission is to document life in…
Culture / Arts
54th Venice Biennale
June 2011
Culture editor Robert Bound reports from the 2011 Venice Biennale, pitching the cream of contemporary art against the most classical backdrop of them all. Away from the parties and gin palaces parked on the Grand Canal,…
Culture / Arts
Jeff Koons
June 2011
Monocle visits Seoul's Shinsegae department store to talk with artist Jeff Koons about Sacred Heart, his newest addition to the shopping landmark's rooftop sculpture garden.
Culture / Photography
Prix Pictet 2011
March 2011
In the three years since its inception, the Prix Pictet has become the world's leading prize for photography in the field of sustainability. With a prize of CHF 100,000 the international jury honour a photographer whose…
Culture / Music
Korean Music Industry
March 2011
Monocle reports on how Korea's pop music industry is the country's most potent weapon in the global soft power stakes.