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Design tours: Lithuania’s modernist city
As Lithuania’s second city, it’s not often Kaunas gets much international attention. This, however, could be about to change. Kaunas has been named one of Europe’s Capitals of Culture for 2022; a title it’s…
Art direction
How can the Uzbek capital become an art city? The plan: to eschew starchitects and take things slowly.
Choice cuts
We source the best new art and retail – and meet the creative minds behind it – to make yours a winter of cultural contentment.
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?
Collecting the set
How a personal haul of modernist homeware became a premier prop source for the global film industry.
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.
Worldwide wonderlands
Denmark's Christmas traditions reveal a nation that has perfected the art of indoor celebration, transforming winter's harshness into a festival of family, pork and peculiar pudding rituals.
Culture: Global
Finds from the worlds of museums, publishing and K-pop, plus a popular podcast festival.
Statues of liberty
Lithuania's second city emerges from the shadows with its unique interwar modernist architecture, blending international influences with distinctly local traditions as European Capital of Culture.
Comment: Norway
The stories you should be paying attention to – and the ones you might have missed.
