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How Wonderfruit founder Pete Phornprapha built Asia’s most global festival
The brains behind Asia’s answer to Burning Man reveal the organic growth strategy, international audience dynamics and real-estate model that made Wonderfruit a success story.
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Five must-see shows during Frieze London 2025
As the capital’s premier art fair returns, Monocle scouts this year’s standout exhibitions, which include everything from bold retrospectives to daring curatorial visions.
What Frieze London director Eva Langret wants you to see at this year’s fair
As Frieze London returns, director Eva Langret shares her highlights from this year’s edition – including thatched sculptures, stand-up style performance art and her go-to spots for post-fair dinners.
Topless cars are still the most fun you can have with your clothes on
As Europe starts to stack its garden furniture, snuggle into its merino and greet the autumn with a shrug, it’s time that we took stock. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is doing…
Contrary to what you might have heard, Europe is a 21st-century success story
Listen to the critics and you would think Europe was finished. Too bureaucratic, they say. Cannot agree on migration. Moving at glacial pace while Silicon Valley races ahead. It has become such a tired…
Putting Southeast Asia on the map: Art Jakarta’s Tom Tandio on what’s driving Indonesia’s creative scene
Indonesia’s premier fair Art Jakarta runs from 3 to 5 October. Director Tom Tandio speaks to Monocle about this year’s edition, which is taking place soon after anti-government protests rocked the country’s largest city.
Inside Asmodee’s billion-euro business and the unexpected board game renaissance
Asmodee has transformed from a niche French publisher into a global powerhouse behind Ticket to Ride, Dixit and Pokémon cards. CEO Thomas Koegler explains why board games thrive in an era of digital overload.
Calonge: The Spanish village given a fairytale ending by bookshops
A bold idea, a €10,000 offer and hundreds of hopefuls. A once overlooked town near Barcelona sparked an unexpected cultural revival, and other towns are now watching closely.
Inside Sweden’s fight to protect public-service broadcasting
Across Europe, public-service media faces pressure from hostile commercial and ideological forces. We go behind the scenes in the Nordic nation’s newsrooms to see how its journalists are fighting back.
Inside Fondation Cartier’s radical new Jean Nouvel-designed home
Paris’s Fondation Cartier reopens this autumn with a reconfigurable Jean Nouvel-designed space, a 40-year retrospective and an ambition to give visitors a fresh museum experience on every visit.
The bold redesign that put Austin’s Blanton Museum on the global map
Freshly given an eye-catching redesign, a university art museum in Austin is navigating choppy political waters and helping to put the city on the cultural map.
