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Robert Bound

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Culture

Culture editor Robert Bound's column on Alan Bennett's play The History of Art, as well as our latest book, film and music reviews.

  • Issue #37
  • 11 min read
Culture
Culture

New media circus

It seems that every news presenter has a blog or Twitter feed – but post personal opinions at your peril. Monocle investigates the pleasures and sorrows of social media in the news.

  • Issue #36
  • 15 min read
Preparing for a studio interview at Channel 4 News, London
Culture

Culture

Culture editor Robert Bound's column on the hilarity and banality of comments left by people on newspaper websites, as well as reviews on new books, films, and music,and previews of art exhibitions.

  • Issue #36
  • 9 min read
Culture
Culture

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz festival is a celebration of music in beautiful mountain surroundings with eclectic acts, good food and an atmosphere more focused on bonhomie than going bananas. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports…

  • Film
Montreux Jazz Festival
Culture

Expo 35: Naples

Away from the dark world of the Camorra, Naples’s real innocence and romance shine through in its family-run restaurants, with locally caught fish, and young couples kissing on Vespas in nearby beauty spots.

  • Issue #35
  • 10 min read
View from the Via Strato Santo
Culture

Culture

Robert Bound's column on artists selling out, est books including Bret Easton Ellis's new novel, plus reviews of non-mainstream films.

  • Issue #34
  • 9 min read
Culture
Art

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.

  • Issue #33
  • 26 min read
Museum pieces
Culture

Culture

Monocle has a chat with the chairman of auction house Bonham's Asia division, and we review the new Bill Hicks biopic and the third album from Paris-based tango tearaways Gotan Project.

  • Issue #33
  • 8 min read
Collage featuring colorful landscape photographs, a sailboat, cityscape, and crowd of people separated by gold and colored paper strips.
Culture

Culture

Roman Polanski's new drama The Ghost, music picks from gospel to "geyser-pop", the new books we've been reading.

  • Issue #32
  • 8 min read
Five books displayed on a bright yellow background including Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Nick Kent Apathy for the Devil, Point Omega, and Fordlandia by Greg Grandin.

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