2651 results for Arts

2 May 2014

Art is about more than just a nice painting – it can be a tool for understanding the many brushstrokes of life. So says philosopher Alain de Botton, who's co-curating a new exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam called…

4 March 2013

Berlin’s vibrant arts scene is getting serious and growing up. Creatives are making real investments in the city to transform its unusual spaces.

17 June 2011

Sometimes it’s not civic officials who shape the city but passionate families. In Sydney the Kaldors’ cultural philanthropy is enriching their city.

18 December 2010

Over the course of a few sun-soaked December days, Art Basel Miami Beach attracts the art world to south Florida. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports on the state of the art market and looks at what the art fair…

15 July 2010

Art International Radio is an internet radio station based in the Clocktower in lower Manhattan, a building famous for having been at the centre of New York’s art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. At the helm is Alanna Heiss…

19 April 2018

Pop-up gallery Black Box Projects is heading to Photo London. Meet the team and, opposite, see what other galleries have planned.

22 March 2018

With its scene buoyed by the Dhaka Art Summit, artists and architects are banging the drum for Bangladeshi art.

22 February 2018

From rarities of the Flemish Renaissance to a resurgent New York market, we mark your diary with the key things to buy and see.

14 December 2017

Digital archives are no replacement for the real thing – it’s only in a private visit to a secret hoard that history, humanity and passion are let loose to inspire, inform and entertain again.

19 October 2017

On Saudi Arabia’s fledgling cultural scene, artists tread a precarious path to put the kingdom on the international art map. While inspiration and invention flourish behind closed doors, the spectres of censorship and…

21 September 2017

Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales.

21 September 2017

We visit the Beijing studio of Zeng Fanzhi, the Chinese artist who usually prefers to let his work do the talking. Fortunately he was willing to have a conversation with Monocle, in which we cover changing styles, perpetual…

22 June 2017

Learning to paint is surely a life-improving skill? We head to southwest England in search of good light and a fresh mental landscape.