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Painting by numbers

19 December 2015

A bit of technology is being used to recover a long-lost masterpiece. A 17th-century painting by Caravaggio went missing in Palermo in 1969 in a suspected heist by the Sicilian mafia. The public will now be able to view its…

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Painting a picture

8 November 2016

The “opening up” of Iran in the wake of its nuclear deal with the West hasn’t quite happened at the pace it was predicted. Some sanctions are still in place and for now the country remains inaccessible to many businesses…

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Constable paintings?

3 February 2016

Crime levels in Hong Kong may have fallen for a ninth successive year but the overseers of the city’s latest heritage restoration project aren’t taking any chances. The first residents of Tai Kwun, an eagerly anticipated…

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Painting a picture

20 June 2016

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally starting to look shipshape with architect Jean Nouvel’s “rain of light” roof in place and seawater now flowing into the grounds of the museum. Putting some of the world’s most precious and…

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Painting a revolution

8 February 2017

A century after the 1917 October Revolution, this turning point in Russian history remains a major event in modern consciousness. To mark the occasion, London’s Royal Academy unveils Revolution: Russian Art 1917 to 1932…

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Paint the town

2 July 2020

Auckland’s commercial art scene is flourishing thanks to agile business models and an abundance of talent. We meet the gallerists championing their multicultural hometown.

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Oil painting

17 April 2008

Dubai and its neighbours have come to believe that even seven-star luxury and tax-free sunshine can seem stale without culture. Monocle visits Art Dubai to see who’s buying and ask if an oil state can reinvent itself as a…

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Portrait of a nation

9 December 2015

The island state is not used to letting people do anything they want and that means it’s been stuck with a moribund arts scene. But the new National Gallery aims to change perceptions of the country at home and abroad.…

Film

The secret to buying a painting

16 October 2017

In the latest episode of our ‘Secret to...’ series, Alexander Gilkes, co-founder of online auction house Paddle8, unveils the alchemy that surrounds the world of collecting art.

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Meet the Writers - Monocle Reads: ‘Wet Paint’

21 April 2022

Georgina Godwin sits down with Chloë Ashby to talk about her debut novel ‘Wet Paint’. Ashby is an award-winning arts journalist and author, and a regular contributor and former editor at Monocle.

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Healing hands

17 January 2019

Clad in white coats and working with a surgeon’s precision, these Rome-based fine-art restorers are on a mission to preserve the city’s cultural heritage.

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The art of restoration

19 February 2019

Monocle Films pays a visit to a restoration firm that has saved pieces by artists as diverse as Caravaggio and John Kirby.

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School holiday

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.

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Palette cleanser

18 April 2016

How Austria’s once-conservative seat of aesthetic endeavour learnt to love modernity.

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The conversation: Sitting pretty

18 March 2016

The original and ultimate status update, portraiture has a long history that poses rich insights into both the portrayer and the portrayed. Contemporary artists Gavin Turk and Peter Blake talk about their approach to the…

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Artistic licence

19 November 2015

Ed Ruscha helped define the 20th century and his pictures have burnt themselves into the world’s retina. As he prepares for a new show in Berlin, Ruscha welcomes Monocle into his Culver City studio to talk work and inspi…