Culture
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Making the headlines
Axel Springer's radical new headquarters in Berlin merges newsrooms, symbolises media's future and reasserts the historic publishing district's role as democracy's bulwark.
Observation: Group therapy
The fanatical followers of Hong Kong boy band Mirror reflect the troubled city’s yearning for some homegrown positivity and pride.
Residents elect
As members of one of Denmark’s largest housing co-operatives, the occupants of one cobbled Copenhagen thoroughfare are a community in control. We meet the neighbours in Nørrebro.
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.
Editor’s Letter: Fit to print
The smartest media brands are still investing, evolving – and flourishing, says Andrew Tuck.
The 2021 Monocle Art Survey
From gallerists to artists, collectors to auctioneers, we check in with industry players to find why – digital innovations or not – seeing art in real life matters, how the past year has shaken…
From the ashes
When Nabil and Zoe Debs opened their Beirut hotel, Arthaus, it was destroyed in the port explosion. In rebuilding it from the rubble, they cemented its place as a creative hub.
Sand guard
What kind of beachgoer are you? Get ready for the return of the shadebathers, bodies in fine mahogany, supercharged nubile flirters and blatant naturists at a coast near you this summer.
Screen saviour
It has been a dark year for cinemas around the world but the credits aren’t rolling yet – and a revitalised cinema on Singapore’s waterfront is stealing the scene.
Reformed character
Athens has a vast new cultural space, but only for two years. Before nomadic foundation Neon leaves, it plans to deliver a cultural hit to a quiet neighbourhood.
