The Monocle Arts Review
Latest Episodes
Art: Ossian Ward
Ossian Ward rounds up this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong. We then head to Berlin to meet Mahsa Mergenthaler-Shamsaei, curator of the ‘Young Persian Artists’ exhibition.
Film: Karen Krizanovich
We get to grips with the week’s film releases, including one-take wonder ‘Victoria’, slapstick slope caper ‘Eddie the Eagle’ and the re-release of Oscar-winning Japanese classic ‘Ran’
Books: Cathy Rentzenbrink
We review three upcoming fiction releases: Garth Greenwell’s debut novel, which extends his 2011 novella ‘Mitko’ into ‘What Belongs to You’, a murder mystery told through the eyes of a grieving parent in ‘The…
TV: John Doyle
We assess where the real drama is on television. Is it in the latest fictional offerings from North American networks or do you need to look no further than the US presidential coverage? Monocle’s…
Music: Tallinn Music Week
DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe drops by to give us the low-down on some of Estonia’s finest music acts to look out for at this year’s Tallinn Music Week.
Art: Charlotte Burns
Charlotte Burns of ‘The Art Newspaper’ takes us on a whirlwind tour of the best art exhibitions currently on show in New York: ‘Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; ‘Peter…
Film: Tim Robey
We find out what’s on at the cinema this weekend with Tim Robey, film critic for ‘The Telegraph’. Look out for animal animation ‘Zootopia’ (or ‘Zootropolis’ depending on where you are), clash of the…
Books: Sarah Shaffi
Sarah Shaffi, online editor at ‘The Bookseller’ brings us up to speed on two new book releases: Shobha Rao’s ‘An Unrestored Woman and Other Stories’, a collection of short stories based around the 1947…
Theatre: Dominic Maxwell
Gillian Dobias is joined by Dominic Maxwell, theatre critic for ‘The Times’, to discuss two French plays that have been adapted for the London stage: Florian Zeller’s confounding tale of betrayal, ‘The Truth’, and…
Music: Radio Cascabel
Music: Radio Cascabel’s Diego Jalfen and Estefi Panizza bring us the best new tracks from Latin America, including Argentinean duo Sinux, Chileans Miss Garrison and Brooklyn-based Colombians Salt Cathedral.
