The Monocle Arts Review
Latest Episodes
Art: Guy De Launey
Monocle’s Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey talks through Belgrade’s art scene with Robert Bound, with pit-stops at the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the ArtGet gallery in the Belgrade Cultural Centre.
Film: Tim Robey
Tim Robey, film critic for ‘The Daily Telegraph’, discusses Adam McKay’s Wall Street saga ‘The Big Short’, Sandra Bullock’s role as a US spin doctor sent to help a Bolivian president in ‘Our Brand is Crisis’ and a documentary about former ‘Sunday Times’ editor Sir Harold Evans and his quest…
Books: Mark Mason
Author Mark Mason leafs through a few recent literary releases with Monocle’s Ben Rylan. Together they discuss Francesca Kay’s latest novel ‘The Long Room’, which explores surveillance and human interest in other beings. They also take a look at two pieces of non-fiction: ‘Zola and the Victorians: Censorship in the…
TV: John Doyle
Fresh from the mid-season TV Critics Tour, John Doyle, television critic for ‘The Globe and Mail’ in Toronto, gives us the headlines from the event and previews three upcoming North American shows. He discusses two very different series based on the music industry – Martin Scorsese’s ‘Vinyl’ and Cameron Crowe’s…
Music: Luke Turner
On this week’s music review we listen to Fat White Family’s slightly controversial new album ‘Songs For Our Mothers’. We also find out whether 1980s duo Deux Filles really are two French girls as they release their new record ‘Space & Time’. Plus: we discuss the new release of a…
Art: Charlotte Burns
Charlotte Burns of the ‘The Art Newspaper’ talks us through some art exhibitions in New York, including ‘Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings’ at Richard L Feigen & Co and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Sea of Buddha’ at Pace Gallery. Plus: we discuss the Whitney Museum’s new programme ‘Open Plan’.
Film: David Jenkins
David Jenkins, editor of ‘Little White Lies’ magazine, joins Gillian Dobias in the studio to talk through Lenny Abrahamson’s adaptation of critically acclaimed novel ‘Room’, Leonardo DiCaprio’s harrowing struggle for survival in ‘The Revenant’ and the new Taiwanese film ‘The Assassin’.
Books: Cathy Rentzenbrink
We discuss two new memoirs, one by a Holocaust survivor who lost her father in a concentration camp and another by a recovering alcoholic who returns to her hometown to battle her addiction and face past traumas. Plus, we talk thrillers as Fiona Barton releases her debut novel ‘The Widow’.
Theatre: Dominic Maxwell
On this week’s theatre review we discuss two new revivals, one of the scandalous drama ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ and the other of musical hit ‘Guys and Dolls’ as well as the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s play ‘The Dazzle’.
Music: Radio Cascabel
Diego Jalfen and Estefania Panizza, director and artistic director of Latin-American music agency Radio Cascabel drop by the studio to introduce us to some of their favourite musicians.
