The Monocle Arts Review
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Art: Francesca Gavin
Journalist and curator Francesca Gavin discusses French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe’s upcoming rooftop installation at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, a new show in Nottingham, England, curated by American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, and Gallery Weekend Berlin – one of the leading events for contemporary art in Germany.
MIPTV: Peter White
Broadcast’s Peter White talks Rob Bound through this year’s MIPTV conference in Cannes, which this year put the Nordic region under the spotlight. They talk top dramas, survival formats and surviving the festival.
Books: Mark Mason
Andrew Tuck and journalist Mark Mason discuss the week in books: Mary Pilon’s ‘The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favourite Board Game’, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s ‘The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland’ and the rise in popularity of adult colouring books.
Film: Anna Smith
Film journalist Anna Smith reviews the week in cinema, including raw Irish drama ‘Glassland’ starring Toni Collette, Danish-American western ‘The Salvation’ and Kate Winslet as a landscape gardener for King Louis XIV in ‘A Little Chaos’.
Music: Luke Turner
The Quietus’s associate editor Luke Turner gives us the lowdown on this week’s music releases from the likes of Niger’s Tal National, British post-punk group Wire and folksters from the Outer Hebrides, One More Grain.
Art: Peter York
Cultural commentator and writer Peter York talks Georgina Godwin through ‘Sculpture Victorious’ at Tate Britain, ‘Craigie Aitchison Recreated’ – which boasted a replica of the late Scottish artist’s living room at Aldeburgh Beach Lookout – and ‘Exactitudes’, a documentation of fashion tribes around the world by photographer Ari Versluis and…
Film: Tim Robey
Tim Robey from the ‘Telegraph’ swings by the studio to talk Gillian Dobias through what to see at the cinema this weekend, including Swedish dark comedy ‘Force Majeure’, Keanu Reeves’ new thriller ‘John Wick’ and Andrew Niccol’s war drama ‘Good Kill’.
Books: Christopher Frey
Monocle correspondent and book reviewer Christopher Frey talks to Andrew Tuck about Canada’s relationship with China via David Mulroney’s new release ‘Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canadians need to know about China in the 21st Century’. Plus they discuss the use of the word ‘curator’ in David Balzer’s ‘Curationism: How…
Theatre: Donald Hutera
Donald Hutera, ‘Times’ critic and arts writer, is in the studio with Steve Bloomfield to review the week in theatre and dance. They discuss Orpheus eating his way to happiness in one-man-play ‘Fat Man’, Ivo van Hove’s take on classic Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ and Jérôme Bel’s classic dance production ‘The…
Music: John Doran
Editor of ‘The Quietus’ John Doran discusses some of this week’s music releases from around the globe with Andrew Mueller
