After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look? At MIPCOM, the TV industry's annual market for shows and ideas both good and bad, culture editor Robert Bound strolls the…
Cannes’ annual MIPIM property market is a chance for countries and cities to show off their grand design visions. And, despite the economic crisis, it remains a fascinating milieu where mayors, speculators and architects…
Thursday 7 March
The fat cats of real estate will descend on Cannes next week for MIPIM, their annual hobnobbing hoedown. Monocle will be there too – busy wondering where all the artists and architects have got to.
Nice and Cannes are towns of glitz and guts, with enough character and local colour crammed into their old quarters to temper the cachet of their palace hotels and swanky boutiques. In both cases, the waterfront is where…
Monocle hops from the property fair in Cannes to the cruise show in Miami.
Monocle meets the founder of London's Museum of Everything as he prepares for his latest eccentric exhibition.
Saturday 10 April
“He looked at the sun shine on Beirut. This could be Cannes or Miami, he thought, if only for a few details.”
Robert Bound's highlights of the week, including the Midem music industry shindig in Cannes, gentrification in Jaffa and India's rural Olympics.
A visit to Cannes Lions creativity festival, a literary festival on the river Thames, and we learn what Sonar Festival’s musicians are reading in Barcelona.
A session from Jason Isbell, we chat to restaurant critic Giles Coren, and find out how Lisa Campbell got on at the Cannes Film Festival.
We investigate new violence in Colombia, discuss whether the Cannes film festival is sexist and meet Martin Hickman, author of "Dial M for Murdoch".
Our Rio correspondent reflects on the +20 sustainability conference, Author William J Dobson discusses the behaviour of despots, and we visit Cannes Lions creativity festival.
The impact of Kofi Annan in Damascus, Sophie Grove calls in from the MIPIM real estate show in Cannes, and we discuss top tech stories.
The day’s biggest news topics with Dr James D Boys, we also speak to author Barnaby Martin about his book on Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, and check out the MIPTV television conference in Cannes.
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…
The yachting industry has suffered some knocks and Cannes boat fair was 14 per cent down in attendance this year, but there are signs it’s on course for a recovery. And there’s a new appreciation of old-school and sustai…
We consider whether it's the best chance in a generation to deliver a reunified Cyprus, find out how Cannes is transformed from sleepy seaside town into global media hub, and have our fortune told – Azerbaijan style.
After Silvio Berlusconi’s praise for Mussolini we look at the dictator’s shadow across Italy, hear from the Midem music industry event in Cannes and from the NATPE TV production conference in Miami. Plus, why a Finnish…
We ask whether the Midem music conference in Cannes and NAPTE TV market in Miami are still relevant. Plus, Jennifer Trausch talks us through her huge Polaroids of the deep south and we travel to Key West and Jaipur to talk…
Thursday 14 June
Yesterday, on the way to Basel, through the airports and in that Swiss town hosting its eponymous art fair, were signs about Great Britain.
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