Israeli-born artist Oscar Bronner set up the daily newspaper Der Standard to fill a gap for non-partisan journalism in Austria – and because he couldn’t find a paper to read. It is now the country’s second best-selling…
Friday 24 February
In the English-speaking entertainment world it’s a good week for awards shows. But all collective breath will be none-more-bated than for the mother of them all, the Oscars, on Sunday night.
Wednesday 17 February
The recent Academy Award nomination for Ajami marks the third time in as many years that Israel has scored an Oscar nod for best foreign language film.
Friday 7 December
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer lived to be a centenarian but the buildings and spaces he created will endure and inspire for millenia.
Tuesday 29 November
This week sees a most unusual ceremony taking place at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. A grave is being reopened. But it’s a case of restoration rather than exhumation.
Film producer Sisse Graum Jørgensen exemplifies the hard graft that goes into getting films onto the big screen in a timely and cost-effective fashion. She tells Monocle about winning an Oscar, shunning Hollywood and…
The largest city to be created in the past 100 years is Brazil’s capital. That bold, modernist ideal extends to its military departments, shaped in swathes of creative concrete by architectural icon, Oscar Niemeyer.
Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.
Monocle makes for a rendezvous in the quiet backstreets and canals of Paris’s 10th arrondissement in spring’s freshest ensembles for work days and weekends.
Wednesday 12 September
Sitting in my seat at the Oscar de la Renta spring 2013 fashion show the other day, I was suitably excited for what is consistently one of the most beautiful events of each New York fashion week.
In an attempt to attract foreign investment and ditch its Soviet-era image, the Georgian president has enlisted Michele De Lucchi to fill the capital’s skies with ambitious architecture. The Italian is clearly succeeding…
Saturday 18 February
This weekend’s highlights include an architecture and urbanism biennale in Hong Kong, Denver duo Tennis’s second album and an Oscar contender from Belgium.
A look ahead to Iceland’s election, we set today’s agenda with Dr Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and focus on the Edits section of the newest edition of Monocle magazine.
We talk about rhetoric, meet the screenwriter of In Darkness which is hopeful for Oscars success and discuss today's EU meeting in Brussels.
Monocle trawls the fashion world for the latest brands, trends and industry movements, including jewellery from New York, southern European-influenced clothes from Munich and everything in-between.
Clothes, accessories, designers, retailers and labels to keep an eye out for.
The picks of the week including Wasabi farming, visiting a barber shop in Toronto, and a discussion of the life of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
We meet the head sommelier of Galvin La Chapelle restaurant in London, discuss Kabuki theatre, and look ahead to Oscars.
Yanni Papoutsis on London street food, Jason Solomons on how countries spin their Oscar nominations and chef Bill Granger shares his favourite remembered brand.
Tuesday 21 February
With the film festival season kicking off in late January with Sundance and pretty much wrapping up with the Oscars this weekend, Thanksgiving in film land comes early.
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