Arts
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Free Spirits
Before digital music, labels just produced records. Now, a new approach is needed. Enter Ghostly International, with its unique brand of art, music and retail, showing how to thrive.
Culture
Our favourite new music releases, films and books. And culture editor Robert Bound's column on tear-jerking Hollywood films.
Art Basel Miami Beach
Over the course of a few sun-soaked December days, Art Basel Miami Beach attracts the art world to south Florida. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports on the state of the art market and…
For your diaries
Here’s a hand with your artistic intake over the coming months, from festivals to film releases.
Arab Image Foundation
With a mission to track down, restore and share images of day-to-day life in the region, a valuable social history of the Arab world is being chronicled by the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation. Monocle…
Design/Architecture
Mexico City's housing complex that goes back to nature, a chair made in collaboration with flip-flop giant Havaianas, and the bestselling Lamino armchair.
Culture
Q&As with Fernando Trueba, who's directing his first animated film, and Asher Edelman, an ex-banker and owner of an art investment firm. Plus film reviews, auction sales and a stand-out Hong Kong gallery.
Isle of plenty
How has the Swedish island of Gotland's craft community managed to thrive while others struggle? The secret lies in its reasonably priced studio space, abundance of raw materials and a little bit of magic.
Media
The entrepreneurs putting Africa on the app-map, the vinyl producer teaching everyone a lesson, and a visit to one of our favourite Honk Kong newsagents.
Art Market
Seven Tokyo galleries put aside their rivalry and form a collective, while London prepares to pull out the stops for Frieze week.
