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Summer art special: Lonnie Holley, Ukrainian modernism and Les Rencontres d’Arles:

We highlight three events that should be on your radar, starting with a trip to London’s Royal Academy of Arts to explore Ukrainian modernism. Then we head to the south of France for this year’s edition of a major summer photography festival, before hearing from US artist Lonnie Holley at his new show at London’s Camden Art Centre, ‘All Rendered Truth’.

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667	22 Jul 2024 25 min	Summer art special: Lonnie Holley, Ukrainian modernism and Les Rencontres d’Arles We highlight three events that should be on your radar, starting with a trip to London’s Royal Academy of Arts to explore Ukrainian modernism. Then we head to the south of France for this year’s edition of a major summer photography festival, before hearing from US artist Lonnie Holley at his new show at London’s Camden Art Centre, ‘All Rendered Truth’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	19 Jul 2024 30 min	Leading the charge: a journey down the French Riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part three Alongside General Motors, partner of ‘Monocle on Culture’, we share the third and final part in our series of special programmes. In this episode, we finish our Côte d’Azur road trip in Cannes and explore the relationship between the city, cars and the film world. Plus: we find out how the elegant style of the Carlton Cannes staff has been influenced by cinema over the years.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
666	15 Jul 2024 29 min	Summer music: Cassandra Jenkins and a new documentary about Blur New York-based artist and musician Cassandra Jenkins discusses her new album, ‘My Light, My Destroyer’. The spellbinding new record is a tangle of cranked guitars, close-mic confessionals and wonderfully melodic songwriting. Plus: we celebrate ‘To the End’, a new documentary about Blur, with the film’s director, Toby L.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	12 Jul 2024 23 min	Leading the charge: a journey down the French riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part two Alongside General Motors, partner of ‘Monocle on Culture’, we share the second in our three-part series of special programmes. In this episode, we continue our journey down the Côte d’Azur, with time to ponder a quick dip at the Club Dauphin. Along the way we tap into the design world of the Cadillac Lyriq with designer Magalie Debellis. Plus: we hear from design guru Stephen Bayley and colour expert and historian Kassia St Clair.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
665	8 Jul 2024 35 min	Looking ahead to the summer in culture Rhianna Dhillon, Ammar Kalia and Matt Wolf join Robert Bound to preview this summer’s best music, theatre and television. They discuss a TV show set in the murky waters of Baltimore, an upcoming album from one of the UK’s most revered producers and the Broadway debut of an actor fresh from an Oscar-winning role.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	4 Jul 2024 26 min	Leading the charge: a journey down the Côte d’Azur in the Cadillac Lyriq, part one Alongside Monocle on Culture’s partner, General Motors, we share the first in a three-part series of special programmes. In this episode, we jump in the new Cadillac Lyriq to begin a stunning road trip down the Côte d’Azur. En route, we find out about the sound world of the new marque with General Motors’ creative sound director, Jay Kapadia, and hear about the perfect driving playlist from composer Max Richter and chef Massimo Bottura.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
664	1 Jul 2024 26 min	Pearl Lam We meet Pearl Lam, one of the world’s leading experts on Asian art. Over the past two decades, her eponymous galleries in Hong Kong and Shanghai have become top destinations for collectors drawn in by her exquisite taste, international outlook and commitment to rewriting narratives about Eastern art. Lam joins Robert Bound at Midori House to discuss her journey into the art world, how her gallery plans to support up-and-coming African artists and her new podcast.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
663	24 Jun 2024 28 min	Art and democracy: Agnieszka Holland and Nadya Tolokonnikova We meet two figures in the cultural world known both for their creative practice, as well as their brave attitude towards speaking truth to power. Robert Bound speaks to Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland about her new film ‘Green Border’ and Alexei Korolyov meets Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova to discuss her new exhibition in Linz, Austria.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
662	17 Jun 2024 30 min	‘Bye Bye Tiberias’, artist Zanele Muholi’s new exhibition and a novel by Gabriel García Márquez’s grandson We hear from Lina Soualem about her new film, ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’, which documents the life of her mother, the actress Hiam Abbass, and four generations of Palestinian women. Plus: we head to Zanele Muholi’s new show at Tate Modern and find out about the darkly funny debut novel by Mateo García Elizondo.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
661	10 Jun 2024 28 min	Richard Linklater Richard Linklater is known for both small-budget, big hitting films like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and box-office hits such as ‘School of Rock’. His latest film, ‘Hit Man’, is a comedic thriller starring Glen Powell as the mild-mannered Gary Johnson. He is a college professor who leads an extraordinary double life working undercover for the police as a fake hitman. We meet director Richard Linklater and hear from ‘Monocle on Culture’ regular Hannah Strong for her take on the film.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
660	3 Jun 2024 27 min	The inescapable influence of Franz Kafka On the centenary of his death, we reflect on the legacy of Czech writer Franz Kafka. Alongside writer and literary critic Chris Power, we celebrate Kafka by way of his unexpurgated diaries which have recently been translated into English for the first time. Then screenwriter and short-story author Charlie Kaufman discusses his story in his new collection, ‘A Cage Went in Search of a Bird’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
659	27 May 2024 27 min	Venice Biennale 2024, part 2 We bring you the second part of our coverage from this year’s Venice Biennale. We hear from the artist representing Great Britain, whose work reconsiders the act of listening, find out about the works of the Greenlandic photographer in the Denmark Pavilion and explore Turkey’s politically engaged presentation. Plus: we head to an uninhabited Venetian island for a special performance.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
658	20 May 2024 28 min	Art legends Gilbert & George, Tunis’ new cultural scene and singer-songwriter Richard Thompson We hear from contemporary art legends Gilbert and George, at their new exhibition in East London. Then we head to Tunis to take the temperature of the art scene and meet gallerist Selma Feriani. Plus: Richard Thompson drops into Midori House to play a song from his new album.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
657	13 May 2024 30 min	Fraud and fortune in today’s art market We meet Orlando Whitfield, once the best friend of Inigo Philbrick, to hear about the story of how Philbrick, a young contemporary art dealer, was convicted of wire fraud. Whitfield’s new book, ‘All That Glitters’, details the pair’s friendship, Philbrick’s downfall and Whitfield’s experience of the world of fine art. Plus: commentator Melanie Gerlis puts the story of Inigo Philbrick into the wider context of today’s art market.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
656	6 May 2024 29 min	‘The Fall Guy’ and a celebration of stunt performers We discuss David Leitch’s new film, ‘The Fall Guy’, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. We explore how the film celebrates the art of stunt performance, meet a stuntman to find out more about the job and ask how stunts affect the legalities of film production.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

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Monocle on Culture

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Latest episodes

Summer art special: Lonnie Holley, Ukrainian modernism and Les Rencontres d’Arles

Leading the charge: a journey down the French Riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part three

Summer music: Cassandra Jenkins and a new documentary about Blur

Leading the charge: a journey down the French riviera in the Cadillac Lyriq, part two

Looking ahead to the summer in culture

Leading the charge: a journey down the Côte d’Azur in the Cadillac Lyriq, part one

Pearl Lam

Art and democracy: Agnieszka Holland and Nadya Tolokonnikova

‘Bye Bye Tiberias’, artist Zanele Muholi’s new exhibition and a novel by Gabriel García Márquez’s grandson

Richard Linklater

The inescapable influence of Franz Kafka

Venice Biennale 2024, part 2

Art legends Gilbert & George, Tunis’ new cultural scene and singer-songwriter Richard Thompson

Fraud and fortune in today’s art market

‘The Fall Guy’ and a celebration of stunt performers