The Monocle Arts Review
Latest Episodes
Book review, Antarctic Biennale and MipTV
Tom Edwards is joined in the studio by writers Cathy Rentzenbrink and Mark Mason to discuss this month’s fiction and non-fiction releases, we find out how you put on a biennale in the Antarctic and get a round-up from MipTV with ‘Broadcast’ magazine’s Peter White. Plus: the Toronto Storytelling Festival.
Robert Bound and guests on the week ahead
Robert Bound is joined by Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for ‘The Times’, and Kathelene Fox-Davies, art dealer and advisor, to discuss the week in music and art. Plus we talk Korean art with Bartomeu Mari, director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul,…
Matt Wolf, Lucy Jones and a Van Gogh art heist
Theatre critic Matt Wolf and writer Lucy Jones join Matt Alagiah in the studio to review this week’s West End and TV shows, we head to Amsterdam to learn about a recently solved art heist and we speak to one of the creative minds behind the London-based art, music and…
Tim Robey, Pete Naughton, Jane Morris and SXSW
We get this week’s film, podcast and art picks from critics Tim Robey, Pete Naughton and Jane Morris, and we head to Austin, Texas, to find out the music acts to watch at this year’s SXSW showcase.
Books, John Doyle and 100 years of British advertising
This week we review March’s book releases with John Mitchinson, co-founder of Unbound, and Anne Meadows, commissioning editor at Granta and Portobello. Plus: we preview this month’s must-see TV with John Doyle of Toronto’s ‘Globe and Mail’ and head to east London for an exhibition of British advertising over the…
Jason Solomons, Alice Vincent and Rio Carnival
Robert Bound is joined by film critic Jason Solomons and Alice Vincent, arts and entertainment writer for ‘The Telegraph’, to talk Oscars and this week’s film and album releases. Plus: we take a trip to Rio to find out what it takes to get into the samba parade during Carnival.
Film: Tim Robey
The ‘Telegraph’ film critic gives us his Oscar predictions, as well as reviewing ‘A Cure for Wellness’ and ‘Certain Women’.
Books: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Reviews of the latest releases by Howard Cunnell, Jaqueline Woodson and Mohsin Hamid.
TV: Ben Rylan
Reviews of ‘Supergirl’, Australian show ‘Please Like Me’ and ‘The Golden Girls’ (now that it’s streaming on Hulu).
Music: Baylen Leonard
A review of the latest country releases by Nikki Lane, Little Bandit and Whitney Rose.
