The Monocle Arts Review
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Art: Peter York
Cultural commentator and writer Peter York talks Robert Bound through an exhibition about British punk band The Jam at Somerset House and a retrospective of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures at Tate Modern. Plus: as cartoonist Osbert Lancaster’s name is immortalised on a blue plaque at his childhood home, we remember the…
Film: Mark Schilling
Gillian Dobias speaks to Mark Schilling, a film critic based in Tokyo, about some of Japan’s latest movie releases, including a live-action adaptation of popular manga series ‘Attack on Titan’, an anime film ‘The Boy and the Beast’ and a remake of the 1959 film ‘Fires on the Plain’.
Books: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Monocle’s Matt Alagiah is in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink, writer and books editor at ‘The Bookseller’. Together they discuss how Harper Lee’s unedited ‘Go Set a Watchman’ reads and consider the debate surrounding its publication. They also review two other novels out this month: ‘Early One Morning’ by Virginia Baily…
TV: Fernando Augusto Pacheco
Monocle’s contributor Fernando Augusto Pacheco talks Tom Edwards through the highs and lows of Brazil’s soap operas, from the controversial to the biblical, and of course the downright ridiculous.
Music: Sebastian Merrick
Promoter and music aficionado Sebastian Merrick talks us through some of his favourite and most exciting acts to emerge this year including funk and soul singer Ester Rada, Ethio-jazz players Black Flower and songs in the Babylonian language from The Lyre Ensemble.
Art: Jane Morris
Editor of ‘The Art Newspaper’ Jane Morris talks us through some of Basel’s current exhibition highlights and separates the great from the gimmicky at London’s current multitude of summer immersive shows.
Film: David Jenkins
David Jenkins tells us about the small-scale blockbuster ‘Ant-Man’, the story of an attempted assassination of Hitler in ‘13 Minutes’ and a charming Italian film that follows a teenage girl and her family of beekeepers, ‘The Wonders’.
Books: Mark Mason
Today’s book review includes two new releases: ‘Two Hours: the Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon’ that delves into the psychology required to go the distance and ‘All Day Long: a Portrait of Britain At Work’, an investigation into what we do during our working day. And as Brian Helgeland’s…
Broadway: Matt Wolf
Matt Wolf, theatre critic for ‘The International New York Times’ takes us on a tour of some of the latest shows on Broadway in New York, including Shakespearean musical ‘Something Rotten!’ and multi-Emmy award-winning writer David Javerbaum’s ‘An Act of God’. Plus: we learn a few lessons in theatre etiquette…
Music: Will Hodgkinson
Will Hodgkinson, chief pop and rock critic for ‘The Times’, talks to Robert Bound about the week’s best new music releases.
