19 October 2015
Episode 210
30 minutes
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
We take a global tour of some recent and upcoming art gallery openings including the Sursock Museum in Beirut, Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London and The National Gallery Singapore. Plus: we meet the guerrilla artists in Belgrade who are taking the delayed opening of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art into their own hands.
19 October 2015
Share episode
DownloadChapter 1
6 minutes
15
15
/
Museums in Beirut are far and few between but this autumn, after seven years of renovations, the grandiose Sursock Museum has finally thrown its doors back open to the public. It offers a much-needed meeting place in a fractious city marked by divisions.
6 minutes
Share chapter 1
![Beirut’s Sursock Museum](http://img.monocle.com/radio/chapters/ch1_img_0054-1280x847-_crop-56252a91c1b3b.jpg?w=640&h=360&g=center&q=60)
Chapter 2
7 minutes
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
15
15
/
Newport Street Gallery in London’s Vauxhall is dedicated to showing Damien Hirst’s vast collection of more than 3,000 artworks. Not many people know what comprises this arty haul so there’s much anticipation about what might end up hanging on the walls. To begin with, Hirst has chosen 33 eye-catching works by British abstract artist John Hoyland. Holly Fisher finds out more.
7 minutes
Share chapter 2
![Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, London](http://img.monocle.com/radio/chapters/chooser_gallery-6-c-kioyar-lt-56252ac074372.jpg?w=640&h=360&g=center&q=60)
Chapter 3
5 minutes
Photo: Viktor Markovic
15
15
/
Although Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art should have been opening this week – or rather reopening in time for its 50th anniversary – its eight-year closure continues, much to the frustration of artists and public alike. However, all is not lost as a group of Serbian artists stage their own opening of sorts.
5 minutes
Share chapter 3
![Belgrade’s guerrilla art opening](http://img.monocle.com/radio/chapters/ch3_viktor-markovic_crop-56252a9dbc0fc.jpg?w=640&h=360&g=center&q=60)
Chapter 4
7 minutes
15
15
/
The National Gallery Singapore has taken 15 years to open its doors to the public. Occupying the former Supreme Court and City Hall, the new institution is Singapore’s answer to the likes of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Tate in London. Ahead of the opening in November, Monocle’s Jason Li takes a peek behind the curtains.
7 minutes
Share chapter 4
![A preview of the new National Gallery Singapore](http://img.monocle.com/assets/img/radio/generic-episode-img.jpg?w=640&h=360&g=center&q=60)
Want more radio episodes like these in your inbox?
Sign up to Monocle’s email newsletters to stay on top of news and opinion, plus the latest from the magazine, radio, film and shop.
Monocle on Culture - latest episodes
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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 transl…
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…
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…
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 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…