Culture
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Culture
A news kiosk on Pushkin Square in Moscow, and this month's new music, film, art and music.
Paper back
Colombian newspaper ‘El Espectador’ has survived financial woes, falling sales and a cartel vendetta. Monocle meets its director as part of our series on firms keeping high-quality print publishing alive.
Tequila sunrise
At the 2007 Oscars, three Mexican directors received 16 nominations. But in their homeland, the industry is lagging. Monocle meets the new generation of filmmakers trying to turn talent into commercial success.
Art market
The first in a new series looking at the world of buying and selling art. This month: a Q&A with Christie's specialist Carina Villinger and Damien Hirst's forthcoming Sotheby's sale.
Bangkok Community Radio
Bangkok's 'quality of life' radio station provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best. The all-talk format of RDCK is a call to action and an attempt to solve…
Berlin: cultural city
Berlin's industry is defunct, but abandoned warehouses now house galleries and studios leading the European avant-garde. Monocle salutes our culture capital winner and asks: can the city's energetic creatives thrive?
Summer hit wave
Monocle’s summer catalogue of culture aims to arm even the most outdoorsy with enough books and records, cinematic suggestions and art events to make you pray for rain. Almost.
Design principal
The Rhode Island School of Design is buzzing about its new president: commercially aware digital theorist and renowned graphic designer John Maeda, a man as happy at Reebok as at MoMA.
Bangkok call-in
From putting expectant mothers in touch with midwives to finding you a snake-catcher, Bangkok’s ‘quality of life’ radio station RDCK provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best.
Editor’s letter: This is the year of makers, fixers and the ambitious
Andrew Tuck on the year ahead.
