The Monocle Arts Review
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Art: Kathlene Fox-Davies
Art consultant and dealer Kathlene Fox-Davies discusses prints by Bruce Nauman at Sims Reed Gallery, ‘Tomoko Yoneda: Beyond Memory’ at Grimaldi Gavin and ‘Roni Horn: Butterfly Doubt’ at Hauser & Wirth.
Film: Karen Krizanovich
Film critic Karen Krizanovich and Monocle’s Gillian Dobias review ‘Love and Mercy’, the tale of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson. They discuss ‘Dear White People’, Justin Simien’s racial satire set in an Ivy League college and revisit the 1958 classic ‘Touch of Evil’ as the BFI launches its Orson Welles…
Books: Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal, an editor at ‘The New York Times Book Review’ reviews Joshua Cohen’s internet epic ‘Book of Numbers’, Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ where the protagonist loses her passport and reinvents herself in Morocco. We then explore how people use race to define themselves in Mat Johnson’s…
Television: Alice Vincent
Alice Vincent, arts and entertainment writer for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ reviews the third season of ‘Orange is the New Black’, discusses the blurred lines between people and robots in sci-fi drama ‘Humans’ and as season two of ‘True Detective’ hits its third episode we decide if it lives up to…
Music: David Stubbs
Music writer David Stubbs and Monocle’s Andrew Mueller discuss an eclectic selection of music releases, encompassing new works of ambient electronica, modern Glaswegian folk and a collaboration between The Long Lost Band and Tim Buckley’s lyricist, Larry Beckett.
Photography: Sue Steward
Photography critic Sue Steward talks us through the latest exhibition at the Wapping Project Bankside, a show of Raymond Cauchetier’s work at the James Hyman Gallery and ‘Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed’, a collection of pictures by photography graduates.
Film: Tim Robey
Monocle’s Gillian Dobias and Tim Robey, film critic for ‘The Telegraph’, discuss the sequels that have hit the screens this week: ‘Magic Mike XXL’ and Terminator Genisys’. Plus we talk about Asif Kapadia’s much-anticipated and highly moving documentary that tells the story of the late singer Amy Winehouse.
Books: Fleur Macdonald
Fleur Macdonald, editor of The Omnivore literary website reviews two novels: Louis de Bernières’ latest, ‘The Dust that Falls From Dreams’ and Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s debut ‘The Meursault Investigation’, which picks up the story of an Arab murder victim in Albert Camus’ 1942 classic ‘The Outsider’. Plus we get…
Theatre: Dominic Maxwell
Dominic Maxwell, chief theatre critic for ‘The Times’, runs through a triple bill of plays on in London this summer. At the Phoenix Theatre we’ll see how ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ scores against the original film, we’ll discover how ‘The Motherfucker With the Hat’ fairs in the UK after a…
Music: Luke Turner
Luke Turner, associate editor of the Quietus, talks us through new album releases from Finnish synth-pop-maker Jaakko Eino Kalevi and the producer credited with pioneering footwork music in Chicago: RP Boo. Plus we’ll find out what ‘post-Troika Hellenic Trance Music’ sounds like with an album that’s been 10 years in…
