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.
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Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 22 August
The Hezbollah Museum
While many Lebanese hit the beach on weekends, some head to museums.
Edits / Soft Power
Museums as Soft Power
“How museums became soft power ambassadors”. Monocle and the V&A hosted a discussion exploring how culture nations. Moderated by Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûle speakers on the panel were: - Simon Anholt, independent…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 13 July
Weekend agenda, 14/15 July
This weekend’s highlights include a new restaurant in New York, modern dance performance in Hong Kong and Frank Ocean’s debut album Channel Orange.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 3 April
The Enlightenment comes to China
When it reopened last month after extensive renovations to the tune of £235m, the National Museum of China edged out New York’s Metropolitan to become the largest museum in the world.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 2 March
Sometimes a little help goes a long way
I was lucky enough to be squeezed in on the last day of an exhibition recently. You needed a ticket – the travesty of which must unfortunately be left for another Monocolumn.
Culture / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Tuesday 22 December
2010: A clash of culture and progress
In the past five years Dresden’s museums and reconstructed old town have established it as one of Europe’s better tourist destinations – and a much-needed success story in the depressed eastern Germany.
Design / Fashion
Elegant solution
Curate your wardrobe with simple spring masterpieces. We pick the showstoppers at the 21_21 Design Sight museum in Tokyo Midtown.
Culture / Craft
Petit prints
In an age of email the postcard is threatened in some quarters but not in the museum world, where they remain big business. Monocle meets the teams behind some of the world’s mini masterpieces.
Culture / Luxury
Monocolumn
Monday 6 June
Handbags at dawn of the ‘new’ China
Where better to show off the face of the “new” China than near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square? As the country gears up to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of China’s Communist Party on 1 July, Louis Vuitton is…
Affairs / Technology
Rocket city
Huntsville, Alabama is a global player in the defence and aerospace industries but in order to ensure its economic future it must diversify. It’s looking to bio-tech to not only attract top researchers and entrepreneurs,…
Design / Interior design
Life as art
Renowned textile artist Kay Sekimachi has lived in her California home for over 50 years. And while it may not say much on the outside, indoors it’s a warm celebration of furniture and fabrics in which life very much imi…
Design / Fashion
Wardrobe refresh
Ohori Park, home to the Fukuoka Art Museum, is the backdrop to our carefully curated show of spring womenswear.
Culture / Arts
Western Star
Monocle attends the fourth annual Dallas Art Fair in the Texan city that is gaining kudos as a major cultural hub in the US. Local collectors, museums and arts spaces have turned it from a lone ranger into an international…
Culture / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 4 September
9/11 – How the art world commemorates
For New Yorkers, the attacks of September 11, 2001 called everything into question — not least for artists, who struggled to understand and commemorate the deadliest day in the city’s history.
Culture / Architecture
Taking art to the max
Rome’s Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI museum opened last summer. Now that the critics have left and the public’s taken over, is it working? Or, like a wonky painting on a wall, does it need readjustment?
Culture / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 15 June
Weekend Agenda 15/16 June
This weekend’s highlights include the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, the Cyclepedia exhibition at Portland Art Museum, and of course our own Monocle summer Country Fayre
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 15 December
Weekend agenda 15/16 December
This weekend check out David LaChapelle’s retrospective in Stockholm, visit architect Thom Mayne’s Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, enjoy Walter Salles favourite road films in New York and celebrate a great…