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Art

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.

  • Issue #149
  • 25 min read
A woman in a plaid shirt sits at a kitchen table with a large metal basin, a man stands in the background
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
Design

Collecting the set

How a personal haul of modernist homeware became a premier prop source for the global film industry.

  • Issue #149
  • 6 min read
Collecting the set
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
Culture

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.

  • Issue #149
  • 11 min read
Cartoon illustration of a multi-generational family gathered around a Christmas dinner table with holiday food and decorations
Culture

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.

  • Issue #149
  • 9 min read
Morning fog on the tree-lined pedestrian boulevard of Laisves Aleja in Kaunas
Media

Comment: Norway

The stories you should be paying attention to – and the ones you might have missed.

  • Issue #149
  • 4 min read
Illustration of a contemplative figure overlooking a small town nestled in green hills with digital communication bubbles
Media

Brazil’s big cat

Esteemed journalist Glória Maria offers a timeless case study in the importance of engaging broadcast journalism.

  • Issue #149
  • 3 min read
Glória Maria sitting at a broadcast desk in a television studio

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