Arts
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Art market
Fancy a Hockney? We preview the best of New York sales and talk business with the director of the Hong Kong Art Fair.
Culture
Culture editor Robert Bound asks if the arts can console us in a time of crisis. Plus, reviews of the latest in film, books, art, and music from around the world.
Culture
This month's culture roundup features real-life football yarns, a fictional White House exposé and an ode to the migrating swallow. Plus, films from Armando Iannucci and new art shows in Tokyo and Paris.
Art market
Christie's contemporary sale in Dubai, bodybuilding muses under the hammer in New York, and a Q&A with the director of new art fair Tokyo 101.
Culture
Our pick of the latest cultural highlights. In film, a Palme d’Or winner. In books, a macabre thriller. In art, sculptures from mouse hair. And in music, Emmy the Great’s debut.
Chip off the old block
Rønning Ski has produced wooden skis in Skotterud, Norway, since 1936. As others die out or move abroad, Rønning keeps modernising the traditional wooden ski and finding new fans among a younger generation.
Rip up the rulebook
Media industries are evolving extremely quickly and old ways are becoming redundant. To help you keep up, Monocle identifies the pioneers, technologies and trends of the future.
Cultural gathering
Let Monocle entertain you with its selection of art shows, films, albums and books. The sun rises on 2009 with hot new artists, musicians and directors coming to the fore. Enjoy.
Building divisions
70 years after the death of Atatürk, the fate of his namesake Cultural Centre hangs in the balance, symbolising the struggle between Turkey's secular state and the governing Islamist AK party.
Well stacked
A Buenos Aires bookshop with the largest collection of photography books in South Africa.
