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Urbanism

Revving the engine

After a major financial collapse, Motor City’s creatives are joining forces. So could the artists and gallerists behind the resurgence get the whole of Detroit into gear?

  • Issue #149
  • 8 min read
Oxidized bronze sculpture of DeLorean car with gull-wing doors open displayed on white pedestal
Society

Should museums heed calls for restitution?

Do the Elgin Marbles belong in the British Museum, where they have been safely housed for more than 200 years – or are they stolen goods? Monocle's expert panel discusses art repatriation.

  • Issue #149
  • 12 min read
Portrait of Alex von Tunzelmann during the panel discussion
Art

Culture: Global

The Haruki Murakami Library, Martin Margiela and art meets politics in Iceland.

  • Issue #148
  • 4 min read
Culture: Global
Culture

New landscape

When the usual channels of shows closed, Italian curators found a new way to promote contemporary art.

  • Issue #148
  • 1 min read
New landscape
Art

Top billing

From box-office draws to books and beats, we highlight the main attractions on the cultural calendar.

  • Issue #147
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Modern gallery interior with white walls displaying framed paintings and natural lighting from glass ceiling
Art

Conserve and protect

A behind-the-scenes quest is underway to preserve the world’s largest collection of art and antiquities that are now at threat from climate change.

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  • 8 min read
Conserve and protect
Culture

Jump start

Get in the swing of things with a vivid literary slice of 1960s Harlem, a joyous new album from a Motown icon and a must-see photography fair.

  • Issue #146
  • 8 min read
Book cover of Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett with black and white pattern design
Music

Different tune

The old Soviet Dom Radio building in St Petersburg is creating daring music and art – and refusing to follow the mood music at play in much of Russia today.

  • Issue #146
  • 8 min read
Conductor Teodor Currentzis directing MusicAeterna orchestra during rehearsal in ornate classical concert hall
Photography

Jeff Wall

The Canadian artist’s near-documentary photographs present worlds we don’t quite live in. He considers them an antidote to today’s proliferation of images.

  • Issue #146
  • 3 min read
Jeff Wall

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