Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 2 October
The Biennial’s contribution
The cultural calendar for a new year is underway, and it’s back to school for artistic institutions across the UK.
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Culture / Arts
Art market briefing
The Russians are coming - well that's what London hopes. Plus, Swiss design under the hammer in Paris and plot the market's progress with the Fine Art Index.
Culture / Arts
Museum pieces
Museum culture has altered radically in recent years. Here we spotlight the most exciting venues and ask what makes an ideal 21st-century museum.
Culture, episode 38
A trip to Denmark’s Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, we chat to artist Jacob Hashimoto in London, and visit a microtheatre in Madrid.
Culture / Society
Being scene
With commercial galleries on the rise and an ambitious programme of museum development, Los Angeles is forging a formidable reputation as a centre for contemporary art. But can it really rival New York?
Midori House, episode 3
A dose of culture for Midori House as we head to California to see how the contemporary art scene takes on New York. Plus, music and book reviews.
The Urbanist, episode 54
Social housing: Dominic Papa of S333 architects discusses London, we look at contemporary Berlin’s housing solutions, and hear from the first planned city in Palestine.
Culture / Media
Media Briefing
Books, technology and a magazine on Chinese contemporary art. And an interview with the founder of Love Art.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 7 October
Weekend agenda 8/9 October
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection of things to do and see include a comics festival, Asian contemporary art and a stylish political thriller.
Culture / Media
Art market Briefing
Books, technology and a magazine on Chinese contemporary art. And an interview with the founder of Love Art.
Design / Interior design
Going for old
The Japanese love vintage, but the idea of bidding for second-hand furniture is an unfamiliar concept. Now three entrepreneurs are bringing design classics to a new market in the country’s first modern and contemporary…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 21 November
The fine art of nation branding
The Swarovski chandeliers in Abu Dhabi’s seven-star Emirates Palace hotel vied for attention this week with equally luminous visitors from the world’s best contemporary art galleries.
Culture, episode 34
We look along Broadway and beyond to theatre land’s Tony Awards, learn of Berlin’s clubs battling rising rents, and visit the Roma Contemporary art fair.
Culture, episode 27
We discuss the MIPTV conference with Lisa Campbell of Broadcast magazine, visit the Cairo Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, and enjoy The Wave Pictures in session.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 5 August
Weekend agenda: 6/7 August
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes an inaugural Polish film festival, landscape paintings in Sydney and the return of a leading contemporary art expo in Japan.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 23 March
Weekend agenda 23/24 March
This weekend, enjoy contemporary art in Tokyo, see tomorrow’s film talent today in New York, and check out Copenhagen band Efterklang playing live.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 16 March
Weekend agenda 16/17 March
This weekend look out for inspiring Korean contemporary art in Hong Kong, appreciate the works of a 20th-century master in London, and check out the new album by German dance music trio Brandt Brauer Frick.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 16 February
Weekend agenda 16/17 February
This weekend see Korean director So Yong Kim’s latest film in the UK, check out Madrid’s International Contemporary art fair, and enjoy the first Sónar music festival in Reykjavík.
Culture / Arts
Harmony restored
Built in the 1930s as a Third-Reich propaganda machine, Munich’s Haus der Kunst has since evolved to become one of Germany’s most prestigious and global-minded contemporary-art venues.
Affairs / Innovation
Past life
The West Bengali city is at a crossroads. On the one hand Kolkata wants to re-establish the look and feel of its Raj glory days. On the other, it wants to brand itself as a contemporary culture and business gateway open to…