The Monocle Arts Review
Latest Episodes
Art: Kathlene Fox-Davies
Gillian Dobias and art dealer Kathlene Fox-Davies take a look at the work of two US photographers: Saul Leiter, a pioneer in colour photography; and Alec Soth, whose cinematic images depict the life and soul of the US. Their work is currently on show in London at The Photographers’ Gallery…
Film: Jason Solomons
We find out if a tone-deaf opera lover can hit the high notes in ‘Marguerite’, what terrors lurk beyond the basement in ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ and take a look at the beautiful cinematography of Patricio Guzmán’s new documentary ‘The Pearl Button’.
Music: SXSW
We dispatch our New York bureau chief to Austin, Texas to talk us through the highlights so far of the 29th South by Southwest music, film and interactive showcase.
TV: Alice Vincent
We discuss whether the latest season of ‘House of Cards’ maintains the White House drama when it’s running alongside the real-life trials of the US presidential primaries. Plus: we dive into ‘Trapped’, an Icelandic murder mystery that’s as chilly as it is chilling. Monocle’s Ben Rylan and Alice Vincent, arts…
Books: Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar, literary editor at ‘The Independent’, drops by to review new fiction by Tracy Chevalier, Anjali Joseph and Pulitzer-prize winning Elizabeth Strout.
Art: Helsinki
We dial up the Finnish capital to get the skinny on the city’s latest art exhibitions with Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent Tom Jeffreys. We look at Japan’s influence on the Nordic region at the Ateneum Museum and discover the life of Finnish communist August Jokinen at Muu Galleria. Plus: we examine…
Film: Anna Smith
On this week’s film review we explore the dizzying heights of Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian novel ‘High-Rise’ and then cast our gaze downwards for another UK apartment-based thriller ‘The Ones Below’. Plus: we head out of the city and into the woods to assess the creepiness of…
Books: Mark Mason
We meet Rosemary Sullivan, the author who’s scooped three of Canada’s biggest non-fiction prizes for her biography of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. Sullivan has won the Weston, the BC National Award and just this week took home the RBC Taylor prize too. Plus: author Mark Mason reviews a book that…
Theatre: Matt Wolf
On London’s West End there’s currently an amnesiac soldier, some rather murderous maids and some good old-fashioned Shakespearean revenge. We discuss all three with Matt Wolf, theatre critic for the ‘International New York Times’. Plus: we meet the team behind theatre company Parrot in the Tank ahead of its fishy…
Convergence Festival
We preview the third annual instalment of Convergence – a music, art and technology festival – here in London with director Glenn Max.
