http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Culture - Programmes and ArticlesenFri, 13 Nov 2009 11:00:32 GMTMonocle 200960EPiServer 4.61info@monocle.cominfo@monocle.comhttp://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Prix-Pictet-09/Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports on the world's premier award for achievement in environmental photography.Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4286http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Mipcom/After the earthquake of internet erosion and an advertising downturn, how does the TV landscape look?Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4279http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/How-did-we-behave-before-TV-and-cinema-arrived/Fiction on screen has taught us everything, from how to love to how to fight.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4173http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film9/Monocle filmsThu, 15 Oct 2009 10:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4172http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art10/Monocle art.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4170http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music11/Monocle MusicThu, 15 Oct 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4169http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books10/The inaugural project of publisher and record label Black Maps is filled with mystical animals, ice-cold old ladies and sad-faced dog waiters. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4168http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/In-her-element/Artist Teresita Fernández, who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005, makes pieces that reflect the landscape as she sees it. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4167http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA-Joe-La-Placa--Co-founder-AVA/Set up last year, All Visual Arts (AVA) is an art partnership established by hedge-fund CEO Mike Platt and dealer/editor/ gallerist Joe La Placa.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4182http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Popular-Culture/Split into two sections, this sale will appeal to any film buffs still floating around London after Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4181http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Travel-Reading/"Either my sister or I go to the US, London, Asia and Brazil every month to source new books," says globe-trotting bookshop owner Alexandre Thumerelle with energetic vim.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4179http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Drawing-Talent/Some of the most talented animation artists in the world now work in Jerusalem's Animation Lab, among them one of the scriptwriters for Pocahontas, Philip LaZebnik, and The Lion King animator Alex Williams.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4178http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Faith-Academy/What do you get when you put 12 atheists in a room with a Christian priest, a Buddhist monk, a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam?Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4176http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Handelsblatt-02/Media spotlight: a newspaper of the future?Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4177http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Handelsblatt-o1/Germany's leading financial daily the Handelsblatt hits newsstands on 2 November a lot fatter, healthier-looking and smarter.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4174http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Air-Rescue/Twenty years ago, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was a busy place as the Iron Curtain was pulled back.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4164http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/How-to-be-a-band-in-2010/Rock stars are now essentially CEOs of their own small (and big businesses).Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4162http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/The-Daily-Talk/Alfred Sirleaf's 'Daily Talk' newspaper reaches thousands of Liberians every day but only ever produces one copy. How does he do it? By writing the day's biggest stories on a large blackboard beside a busy road in the capital.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4138http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Thomas-Demand/Thomas Demand, one of Germany's most iconic contemporary artists, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=4157http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Matthew-Slotover/Co-director, Frieze Art Fair.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4037http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Vendor-and-lender---Nairobi3/Monocle films.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4033http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music10/Monocle music.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4034http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books9/Monocle books.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4035http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Vendor-and-lender---Nairobi2/For the bitchy media, when it comes to sport, sometimes it's not the winning but the talking part that counts.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4032http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Media-spotlight---God-bless-Africa/In Kenya, I am advising on a total rethink of the Nation, a project premiering before the end of the year. Like in a marathon, two Kenyans run side-by-side, the Nation and The Standard. Stay tuned.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4031http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Vendor-and-lender---Nairobi/Most Kenyans buy their newspapers from men like Oliwah Musumba. Every morning the 29-year-old collects a few hundred copies of Kenya's four main dailies and sets up his stall on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi's business district.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4030http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-attack---China-Kenya-UK-USA2/Alfred Sirleaf's 'Daily Talk' newspaper reaches thousands of Liberians every day but only ever produces one copy. How does he do it? By writing the day's biggest stories on a large blackboard beside a busy road in the capital.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4022http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Were-all-ears---Hannover/When Axel Grell, engineer at German company Sennheiser, chose the music to test what he thinks is the world's best headphone, he turned not to Teutonic hi-tech sounds from Kraftwerk or Paul van Dyk, but instead used some good old blues records.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4038http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-attack---China-Kenya-UK-USA/From men's moustaches to a director's relationship with his transvestite dad, there is a new wave of documentary filmmaking in Norway bolstered by government funding and the country's talent pool.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=4021http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Simon-de-Pury2/This month Phillips de Pury adds four new thematic sales to their annual calendar, beginning with Now: Art of the 21st Century on 26 September in London.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3910http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art9/This month Phillips de Pury adds four new thematic sales to their annual calendar, beginning with Now: Art of the 21st Century on 26 September in London.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3906http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books8/Faced with the recession and competition from retail giants and online sellers, small bookshops have been disappearing fast from our high streets. But there's one London gem that's a textbook example of how to buck the trend.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3900http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Peace-Huh-What-is-it-good-for/Faced with the recession and competition from retail giants and online sellers, small bookshops have been disappearing fast from our high streets. But there's one London gem that's a textbook example of how to buck the trend.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3898http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Peace-Huh-What-is-it-good-for4/In strictly cultural terms soft power is just feel-good fun - where would all this cultural diplomacy be without hating good old hard power? The arts need a bogeyman to stay in business. Long live hard power!Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3905http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Shelf-satisfying---London/Faced with the recession and competition from retail giants and online sellers, small bookshops have been disappearing fast from our high streets. But there's one London gem that's a textbook example of how to buck the trend.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3897http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Unrolling-rolling-news---Global/Eager to take on Europe's nightly prime-time terrestrial bulletins, CNN International is corralling its resources to launch a new stand-out half-hour news programme providing a definitive picture of the news day.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3896http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Media-spotlight/Whispers are sometimes more interesting than the louder sounds around, so I, for one, pay attention to whispers on the right lips.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3894http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Switched-on---USA/When Al Jazeera English debuted in 2006, local US cable and satellite TV companies declined to carry the network, frightened by the reputation of its parent network, the Arabic-language Al Jazeera, as the mouthpiece for terrorists.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3893http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Confucius-Institute-China/Founded five years ago, China's Confucius Institute now has 339 branches, taking Chinese culture to hungry Sinophile students.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3890http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/NY400-New-York/The Netherlands's link with New York is brought into focus as the city celebrates 400 years since settlers arrived. It's time to go Dutch.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3889http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Goethe-Institut-Nairobi/With little government backing for the arts, international organisations such as Germany's Goethe Institut are crucial in Kenya.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3888http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books-and-media2/Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3887http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Peace-Huh-What-is-it-good-for3/Faced with the recession and competition from retail giants and online sellers, small bookshops have been disappearing fast from our high streets. But there's one London gem that's a textbook example of how to buck the trend.Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3901http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Peace-Huh-What-is-it-good-for2/Faced with the recession and competition from retail giants and online sellers, small bookshops have been disappearing fast from our high streets. But there's one London gem that's a textbook example of how to buck the trend.Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3899http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Well-hung/Just over a year old, Iain Dawson's contemporary art space in Sydney presents the best of emerging Australian and Asian painters, sculptors, photographers and video-makers.Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3912http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Simon-de-Pury/This month Phillips de Pury adds four new thematic sales to their annual calendar, beginning with Now: Art of the 21st Century on 26 September in London.Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3911http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Botton-publishing---London/Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3895http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/British-Council-UK/Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3891http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/53rd-Venice-Art-Biennale--Part-/In our second film from the Venice Art Biennale, Monocle’s culture editor Robert Bound goes off piste to explore the curatorial instincts at François Pinault’s new Punta Della Dogana.Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3851http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Venice-Part-One/In the first of two films from the 53rd Venice Art Biennale, Monocle culture editor Robert Bound reports on national pavilions as shop windows for contemporary art and national identity.Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3836http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books-and-media/Some to sling in your beach bag, others to savour at home, our literary pick encompasses fiction, travel, politics, media and e-books.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3810http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Visual-arts/From Tokyo to Tuymans, here are six of the best in a crowded summer art calendar.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3809http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film8/ Monocle picks the key movies for the summer and looks ahead at the Cannes hits coming our way.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3807http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music9/Monocle's summer arts calendar creams off the pick of the albums to line up, the books to take to the beach, the shows to saunter round and the movies to get to grips with in the evening - preferably in an open-air cinema in Melbourne.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3805http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Reel-Estates/If your town needs a tourism boost, there is nothing more likely to bring in the punters than a blockbusting film set on your street.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3804http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/SLTS/Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Jamie Jay Johnson's warm and witty documentary following four contestants in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, is a sure contender as one of the strongest factual films of 2009.Thu, 28 May 2009 13:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3692http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Should-I-wear-a-mask-to-watch-rolling-news/In Rolling Newsland, no-one can hear you scream. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3621http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art8/Monocle delivers a snapshot of contemporary art.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3620http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film7/Monocle casts it eyes on two thrillers for film fanatics.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3618http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music8/Monocle highlights the three newest sounds making the right beats this month.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3617http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books7/Monocle delivers this month's installment of interesting reads.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3616http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA---Michael-Moses/If you believe art critics, for the past decade the contemporary art market has been a victim of irrational exuberance, and like proper bankers and tax collectors, it's time for a reappraisal of values.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3615http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sales-02-London/The bubble may have shown signs of bursting in the Russian art market in the past six months, but with Roman Abramovich on side, a little recession shouldn't worry dealers. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3614http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sale-01-Paris-/Leading Parisian auction house Artcurial didn't have a design department until 2002, when the inspirational Fabien Naudan - formerly at Paul Smith and APC - came aboard.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3613http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-Matters/The well-stocked store in Chelsea is a non-profit organisation founded 33 years ago by artists and art workers.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3612http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/-Velvet-first/Not to be confused with a state-run deer-skinning periodical from Palin country, Alaska Editions is a sumptuous photography anthology. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3610http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Ray-of-light/Thanks to IIDA, a new sub-brand of Japanese mobile phone company AU focusing on design-oriented handsets, the days of bulky projectors are numbered. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3609http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA---Debbie-Stier/Harper Studio, a division of Harper Collins, paid a six-figure advance for the blog, This is Why You're Fat, three months after its online launch. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3608http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Toon-crossing/One is the world's largest car manufacturer, the other is Japan's leading animator. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3607http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Manga-juice/A manga about wine has proven a hit with readers in Japan.Thu, 21 May 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3606http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Show-starters/Worth billions but well below the radar; big in China but overlooked in London; consummately professional but often part-time - the lounge act is a fascinating and uncharted universe. Thu, 21 May 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3599http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Alain-de-Botton/Monocle Editor-in-Chief Tyler Brûlé met with Alain de Botton at his London home to talk about his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, a lucid and detailed exploration of the workplace - from office to factory, fishing boat to call centre.Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3678http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Botton--Pleasures-Sorrows/In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton reveals why we need an art that can proclaim the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the workplace.Thu, 14 May 2009 12:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3634http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Films/Having cut his teeth with a documentary on the mini-golf world championships, Jamie Johnson has made an amusing, absorbing and moving masterpiece with this study of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3446http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books6/A clever idea that appeals to the voyeur in all of us.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3445http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music7/Joakim Haugland's in-case-you-missed-em round-up of acts from the reliably surprising Norwegian label throws a bearish, lumberjack arm around a wide array of high-jinks and bliss. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3444http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art7/Borrowing the title Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty from Terry Eagleton's tome After Theory, this is the second time Thessaloniki's State Museum of Contemporary Art has played host to a biennale.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3443http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/What-time-do-I-wish-it-were-/The American avant-garde composer John Cage is best remembered for 4'33". This three-movement composition was premiered by the pianist David Tudor in Woodstock in 1952. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3442http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/How-convenient---Paris/France, a country often asleep at the wheel when it comes to retail innovation, is burning rubber with Chez Jean, a food'n'news concept that launched early this year.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3441http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA---Chintamani-Rao/ET Now will be the India Times Group's second 24-hour venture, becoming the business brother of the Times Now news channel, which launched in 2006.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3440http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Open-to-ideas/Italian publisher Corraini takes a creative approach to outsourcing. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3439http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Coining-it/Journalists at The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau were surprised in early March to step on to their Connecticut Avenue sidewalk and find that they could now use a credit card to buy their own paper. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3437http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Changing-Scene/Soon to be snuggled under the armpit of Seoul's 16th-century Gyeonghui Palace is the Prada Transformer, Rem Koolhaas' multi-disciplinary culture structure. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3438http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Contemporary-Art-Season---New-York/This May, New York hosts its contemporary sale season at the three main houses. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3436http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA-Magnus-Renfrew/Following last year's $20m success at the inaugural Hong Kong Fair, we speak to its director on his plans for this year's show, including 110 galleries from 24 countries. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3435http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Writing-wrongs---Mexico/Paco Ignacio Taibo II is Mexico’s foremost detective novelist, as well as a professor, journalist and political activist. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3434http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Just-so-hot-right-now/Next to its glittering sister Dubai, Sharjah is often overlooked. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3433http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Taiwan-Hit-Factory/Despite years of turbulence between Taiwan and China, this island's pop culture leaves the mainland standing.Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=3379http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Paper-Weight---Tokyo/For our series that decodes the DNA of success, we peruse the Japanese daily paper "Yomiuri Shimbun".Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3327http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sale-02-Dubai/In what seems to be an area where the art market remains relatively bulletproof, Christie's will be hosting its Middle Eastern sales in Dubai in April.Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3326http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sale-01-New-York/Following on from the $225,000 (€174,000) that 14 of his works raised in October 2008's photography sale, Phillips will be offering a new set of Robert Mapplethorpe photos from the collection of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon in this April's sale.Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3325http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA---Jason-Jenkins/Now in its second year, art fair 101 Tokyo runs over four days and is sowing the seeds of a Japanese art week, coinciding with Art Fair Tokyo. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3324http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Would-you-embrace-a-simple-twist-of-fate/Second-guessing software is narrowing our options for happy accidentsThu, 19 Mar 2009 10:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3323http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film6/Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3322http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music6/What a hot talent Elvis Perkins has slowly simmered to become.Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3321http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art6/Joining forces with T-B A21 - the Viennese contemporary art foundation set up by Francesca von Habsburg in 2001...Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3320http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books5/This beautifully-bound compendium takes a football story for each day of the year.Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3319http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cutting-it/Krukmakargatan in Stockholm runs parallel to Hornsgatan, one of Europe's most polluted streets. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3318http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/News-twenty-poor/While rolling news and sports channels exist the world over, Saudi Arabia claims to have set up the first satellite station dedicated to poor people. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3317http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Chic-Flicks/A nation with such a distinct cinematic past as Belgium needed a fittingly modern venue to celebrate its love affair with the screen, and the reopening of its film museum - also now home to the Royal Film Archive's collections...Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3316http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/QA---Jean-Marie-Colombani/President of political and cultural website - Slate.frThu, 19 Mar 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3315http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Hit-Factory/Despite years of turbulence between Taiwan and China, this island's pop culture leaves the mainland standing. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3314http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art5/A retrospective exhibition of the 53-year-old German photographer.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3158http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books4/This disarmingly beautiful collaboration from the American poet and Japanese illustrator (and Monocle regular, see the cover) spins short stanzas about a week in the life of a Japanese retirement home...Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3159http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film5/This war-time thriller focuses on two of Denmark’s most notorious resistance fighters.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3161http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music5/Loney AKA Emil Svanängen is a prolific basement pop enthusiast whose previous records have been as intimate as the tiny Stockholm studio-apartment in which he records.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3160http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Can-culture-beat-the-crisis/When it finds itself in times of trouble, the Mother Mary that comes to Hollywood is the happy ending.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3157http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Room-for-reading---Berlin/Unhappy with the slipshod display and lack of choice at local newsstands, art director Mark Kiessling decided to open his own in Berlin's Mitte neighbourhood.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3156http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Standard-raiser---Austria/Israeli-born artist Oscar Bronner set up the daily newspaper Der Standard to fill a gap for non-partisan journalism in Austria – and because he couldn’t find a paper to read. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3155http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-market3/This month, Sotheby's will host its inaugural auction of Turkish Contemporary Art in London. In the mid-1990s, Sotheby's tried a handful of Turkish art sales.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3154http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Friends-eclectic---Los-Angeles/LA’s KCRW sounds like the future of radio.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3153http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Single-sell---Los-Angeles/"One of our main credos from day one was not to give that classic record store attitude to customers - the snooty attitude that says 'I know more than you do'," says Marc Weinstein, co-founder of Hollywood's biggest (and friendliest) music store.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3034http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Freedom-writer---Indonesia/For our series on media barons we feature Erick Thohir, founder of the Mahaka Media group in Jakarta.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3033http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/So-Farsi-so-good/Until now there has not been a dedicated, unbiased Farsi-speaking TV station broadcasting in Iran. That's about to change with the launch of the BBC World Service's Persian TV.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3032http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music4/Monocle music.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3030http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film4/Monocle films.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2998http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Linda-Blumberg2/Monocle books.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2997http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art4/Monocle art.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=3031http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Linda-Blumberg/Q&A with Linda Blumberg.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2996http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sale-02-London/Auction report.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2995http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sal1-01-Paris/Auction report.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2993http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Going-solo---Paris/Frida Hyvönen is a singer-songwriter with an intimate understanding of the grand piano and the great outdoors. Monocle went backstage with the Swedish chanteuse in Paris as she prepared to play songs from her new record, 'Silence is Wild'.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2992http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Box-fresh---Pakistan/Nine years ago, TV in Pakistan was decades behind India, with just two - state-run - channels and output that was mainly government propaganda. Today its mix of drag divas and campaigning reporters is challenging the old order.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2989http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-gathering---A-world-view/The sun rises on 2009 with hot new artists, musicians and directors coming to the fore.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2896http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Agents-of-change---Global/Mass brands and grocery stores have reinvented themselves - now newsagents and kiosks must do the same.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2895http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Rip-up-the-rulebook---Global/The media industries are evolving and morphing extremely quickly and the old ways of doing things are becoming redundant. To help you keep up, Monocle identifies the pioneers, technologies and trends of the future.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2894http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Writing-history---Worldwide/Leading up to the US elections, Monocle spoke to reporters from around the globe based in America about their take on the proceedings for our series 'From their own correspondent'.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2893http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Watch-word/Traditional media brands have been infected by the web's 'publish now, worry about the facts later' ethic and as their standards slip, readers vanish. But now there's a crop of journalists who can mix old-school standards with high-tech reporting methods.Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2890http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Prix-Pictet-2008/The Prix Pictet award’s worthy mission is to promote photographic excellence and environmental sustainability.Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2887http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-market2/Art marketThu, 16 Oct 2008 10:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2776http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sporting-giants---A-treat-for-sumo-fans/For the last 16 years, Japan's public service broadcaster NHK has provided an invaluable service for English-speaking sumo fans.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2774http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/In-full-colour---The-Bible-revisited/Kicked off by a dinner table discussion between some of Sweden's pre-eminent ad-men, Dag Söderberg, Michel Gyring and Mats Rabe, "The Book Illuminated" looks like the New Testament but is scattered with photos of war zones and good times.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2775http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Photo-story---Buenos-Aires/You might not care to walk down Rivarola, a narrow alley that runs between rows of colonial houses in downtown Buenos Aires, if it wasn't for the lure of the Asunto Impreso (Librería de la Imagen) bookshop.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2773http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books3/BooksThu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2770http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art3/ArtThu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2772http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music3/MusicThu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2771http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film3/FilmThu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2769http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Town-crier---Vermont/The 'Rutland Herald' is the second-largest daily paper in Vermont and the oldest family-owned newspaper in continuous operation in the US.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2768http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Light-bulb-moment---London/We enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life.Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2767http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Power-stations---USA/Monocle looks at the networks' top 10 secret weapons in the battle to report the winners and losers of the big day. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2766http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Saint-Etienne/A band that share a few of Monocle’s own city-centric obsessions, St Etienne have mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic architecture.Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2760http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/A-word-in-your-ear---Scene-and-heard/The fidelity of Monocle's culture desk has been unimpeachable since it discovered Aiaiai's Y-Com earphones-cum-iPhone headset. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2731http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Happy-talk---Collection-meets-with-success/Fletcher Cowan and Holly Hay present answers to "when or where are you happiest?" in their new book When Fletcher & Hay Met.... Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2732http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Historic-texts---Lahora/"This is a printing house, crossroad of civilisation, refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time, armoury of fearless truth against whispering rumour, incessant trumpet of trade," declares the thick gold lettering on the front window of Ferozsons,Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2681http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/New-woman---Moscow/Unlike many other Russian dissidents, veteran broadcaster Irena Lesnevskaya has never considered emigration and, as editor-in-chief since 2007 of opposition weekly news magazine The New Times, has dared to speak out against Kremlin corruption.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2680http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music2/Monocle on music.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2678http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books2/Monocle on books.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2677http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film2/Monocle on films.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2676http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art2/Monocle on art.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2679http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Azteca-camera---Washington/To round off our series on the foreign media's coverage of the US presidential campaigns, we talk to Armando Guzman of Mexico's TV Azteca about crossed wires and counter immigration.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2675http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Auctions-explained/Within hours, an auction house's display galleries are transformed into the sale room for the theatre of the auction.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2727http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-big-Frieze---London2/A London October used to be known for falling leaves, drizzle and an uneventful art sales calendar. Auction house Sotheby's saved its strength - and its best lots - for New York's crucial sales in November. But then, in 2003, Frieze arrived.Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2674http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-market/Monocle's art market update.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2568http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Music/Monocle music.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2567http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Books/Monocle books.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2565http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art/Monocle art.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2566http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film/Monocle movies.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2564http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Well-read-square---Moscow/Larisa Petrova sells newspapers and magazines from a kiosk on Pushkin Square in the heart of Moscow.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2563http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Tokyo-story---Washington/Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2562http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Tequila-sunrise---Mexico/Monocle meets the next generation of Mexican filmmakers, whose dream is to turn talent into commercial success.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2561http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Bangkok-Community-Radio/Bangkok's 'quality of life' radio station provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best. Monocle's Bangkok correspondent David Fullbrook tuned in for the day.Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2538http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Summer-hit-wave---Global/Monocle's summer catalogue of culture aims to arm even the most outdoorsy with enough books and records, cinematic suggestions and art events to make you pray for rain. Almost.Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2413http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Design-principal---Rhode-Island/The leafy Rhode Island School of Design, a global leader in arts education, is buzzing about its new president.Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2412http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Bangkok-call-in--Thailand/From putting expectant mothers in touch with midwives to finding you a snake-catcher, Bangkok's 'quality of life' radio station RDCK provides a lifeline in a city where public services are haphazard at best.Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2411http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Berlin--Cultural-city/Berlin's unemployment rate is dismal and its once-thriving industry is defunct. But the abandoned warehouses and power stations now provide a home for galleries and studios that are leading the European avant-garde.Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2410http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Mission-critica---Buenos-Aires/Jorge Lanata is firing up the Argentine media landscape with his tabloid 'Crítica', seen as a return to the era of combative journalism.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2320http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Film-directions/Film directions.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2317http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Brain-pleasers/Brain pleasers.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2319http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---June-tunes/June tunes.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2316http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-art---Shows-out-for-summer/Shows out for summer.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2318http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Global-gathering---Boston/Charles Sennott sits down with Monocle two weeks into his new job as co-founder, vice-president and executive editor of Global News Enterprises.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2314http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sounds-clever---Helsinki/Monocle explores the Finnish record label Stupido.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2315http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Spiegel-eye---New-York/Continuing our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Klaus Brinkbäumer, one of five US-based correspondents for the German weekly 'Der Spiegel'.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2313http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/India-ads-up---Mumbai/Monocle visits Mumbai's advertising agencies to witness an atmosphere as heady as New York or London in their 1970s golden days.Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2299http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Mellow-pages/Mellow pagesThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2234http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Film-and-DVD-nuts-in-May/Film (and DVD) nuts in MayThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2198http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Triple-pleasure/Triple pleasureThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2199http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Press-for-change---Koln/Publishing dynasty MDS is growing faster than at any time in its 205-year history. Konstantin Neven DuMont is leading its charge into the digital arena.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2196http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-art---Public-hangings/Public hangingsThu, 17 Apr 2008 10:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2197http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Plastic-Prozac---Geneva/Unsurprisingly, the Swiss buy their funnies at the pharmacy.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2193http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Online-revolution---France/Answering only to itself, rue89.com satisfies a strident radical attitude to the Elysée Palace, the news agenda and alleged suppression of the French press.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2194http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Graphic-retail---Barcelona/Disillusioned by Spain's throwaway attitude to visual culture, David Cabrera and Txaro Garcia opened Ciclic in 2004.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2195http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Bridging-the-gulf---Washington/Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic news network has enjoyed as rocky a relationship with the US as the region from which it hails.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2192http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Oil-painting---Dubai/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.Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2191http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/The-Digital-News-Affairs-Conference/Monocle's Culture Editor Robert Bound talked to some of the leading lights at this year's Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels.Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=2069http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Nico-time---Luxembourg/Nico is the offspring of Luxembourg-based publishing maverick Mike Koedinger's fertile imagination.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2077http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Conflicting-passions/Spring screens.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2080http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-art---April-showers/April showers.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2081http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Presenting-the-nation---Global/An explosion of state-funded English-language news channels are attempting to transmit not just the news but their country’s brand. From Moscow to Mumbai we report on the new broadcast empires and ask if this is just propaganda disguised as programming.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2074http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---March-to-a-different-beat/Dig!!! April's albums.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2079http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Woman-of-the-world---Washington/The next correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential elections is Corine Lesnes of 'Le Monde'. Once frosty, France's relations with the US have improved with the arrival of President Sarkozy.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2075http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sound-bites---Tokyo/Tokyo-based sound designer Eric Nagy mixes found sounds in his tracks for films, commercials and music videos.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2076http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Our-shelf-life/Our shelf life.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2082http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Culture-cafe/Situated off this Provençal village's main square, Le Thé dans l'Encrier serves as the sole bookshop to 1,100 inhabitants and myriad tourists.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2078http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Lucky-star---Virginia/America has the vestiges of a patchwork of local media barons. The ones that thrive have managed to mix tradition with cutting-edge technology. The 80-year-old owner of the 'Free Lance-Star' is still a pioneer and the owner of an empire that rivals covet.Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2083http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---Miracles-madams-maps/Miracles, madams, maps.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:16:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=2013http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-movies---Conflicting-passions/Conflicting passions.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1972http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---March-to-a-different-beat2/March to a different beat.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1971http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---March-to-a-different-beat/New York, home of the 21 sq m apartment, is a hostile environment for the working artist.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1970http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Freedom-fighter--Johannesburg/As editor of 'The Zimbabwe Independent', Trevor Ncube became all too familiar with the consequences of criticising the government. Now based in South Africa.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1950http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Shelf-improvement---San-Francisco/Given its reputation as one of the US's most cosmopolitan cities, San Francisco has been surprisingly short on a number of criteria befitting such accolades.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1947http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Party-animal---Virginia/The second correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential election is Li Xuejiang, Washington bureau chief for China's 'People's Daily'.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1948http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Duck-for-coverage---Paris/Every Wednesday in Paris, the Metro is awash with a flimsy broadsheet only eight pages long, but crammed with insider information and a special brand of satirical and investigative journalism.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1946http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Medical-manga---Tokyo/Compared to their TV kin, the new wave of hospital manga are nigh-on medical journals in cartoon form.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1945http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Mix-in-the-right-circles--Stockholm/Four enthusiastic Swedes believe that the future of music doesn't have to end in ...Pod.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1944http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Film-stars---Japan/In Japan, 94m digital cameras were produced last year, compared to 800,000 film cameras. However, an army of die-hard fans is keeping the film format alive.Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1943http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Bildschone-Bucher/Less is more is the concept for Bildschöne Bücher, a small bookshop in Berlin.Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=1929http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Dear-darling---Berlin/Incoming from Berlin, hot off the presses from its Monbijouplatz offices, is 'Liebling', a tall, handsome stranger of a culture-only paper.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1855http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Standing-its-ground---Paris/Ground Zero, a record shop in Paris, took its name in recognition of the fact that music retailers are disappearing and they are facing a "ground zero" situation.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1850http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-of-news--Tel-Aviv/Amos Schocken, publisher of Israel's most influential newspaper, Haaretz, has remained true to his grandfather's liberal ethos, unafraid to report fairly on Palestinian issues. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1849http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Pawn-in-the-usa---Washington/Monocle interviews Roselena Ramírez, who heads the Washington DC bureau of TeleSUR, a Venezuelan-controlled television station.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1848http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-selectors--Berlin/Bodo von Hodenberg wants to sell the best books from around the world, whether it's a book from the smallest art publisher in southern Japan or the coolest cookbook from Germany.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1846http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music/It's the year for fiery, folky femininity.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1845http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books2/Midwinter must-reads.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1844http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Italian-inquisition---Rome/In a media world dominated by reality TV and celebrity chat shows posing as news, Milena Gabanelli's 'Report' stands out.Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1843http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Visual-Arts/Monocle forecasts the key art appointments of 2008.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1688http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-corps---Global/We asked five creative contenders to peer into their cultural crystal balls and tell us what they see for 2008 and beyond.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1694http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Music/Our pick of the best new music coming your way in the next 12 months.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1690http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Arte--Craft---Strasbourg/Monocle paid a visit to Arte TV, a haven for high-end broadcasting, to look at the challenges posed by the switch to high-definition television.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1686http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Franz-Manola---Austria/Austria and Switzerland will host the 2008 European Football Championship in June, and Austria's state broadcaster ORF is looking forward with trepidation to covering the event in HD. Monocle spoke to Franz Manola, head of ORF ON.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1687http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Film/A guide to the essential movies of 2008.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1691http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Cultural-calendar---Books/We predict the major publishing trends of the coming year.Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1692http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Frieze-Art-Fair/Monocle's culture editor reports from Frieze, London's most dazzling and profitable offering on the art circuit.Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=1677http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-beat---New-York/Monocle visits Jon Kessler, a veteran New York-based mixed-media artist, teacher and musician.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1649http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books---A-retro-reads-retrospective/Books for November 2007.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1648http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/No-place-like-Heima---Sigur-Ros-post-rockumentary/In August 2006, Iceland's biggest band, Sigur Rós, closed their 13-month world tour with a two-week mini-tour of their homeland or Heima.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1647http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Frontier-music-Breaks-for-the-border/Aural tricks and treats for October.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1645http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Art-nouveau---Pariss-artiest-arrondissement/The 19ème is becoming Paris's latest artist enclave and gallery quartier.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1646http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Censor-sensibility---Beijng/Hung Huang wants to forge a uniquely modern Chinese culture, in a country where the censors still hold sway.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1642http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Strip-joint---Rome/After embarking on a year's "passionate discovery of comic-strip culture", Bougault opened l'Aventure in Rome.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1641http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Beats-working---Sydney/Kulak's record shop, TITLE, in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Surry Hills, continues to defy convention.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1640http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Paper-tigers---The-world/Monocle asks the experts what the future holds for newspapers and looks at three innovative and thriving titles.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1639http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-next-best-thing---Rotterdam/In the Netherlands' crowded and sophisticated newspaper market, a new launch might seem foolhardy, but this Dutch daily has found an untapped market with its wit, analysis and opinion.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1638http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Printed-matters---Frankfurt/The expectations of the modern reader prompted a complete redesign of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Monocle gained exclusive access to the relaunch.Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1637http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/African-Stations---Nairobi/Salim Amin is determined to launch A24, the first pan-African news channel.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:25:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1488http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Gloss-leader---Milan/In a business dominated by local weeklies, Prestinari's newsstand is different.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1487http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Fine-vintage---Porto/"This is one of the first literary cafés in Porto," boasts Antero Braga, a veteran of the book industry for 38 years.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1486http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Battle-of-Flanders---Belgium/Christian Van Thillo's company, De Persgroep, is kept honest by his country, a fussy, fragmented place that expects its own home-grown sophisticated, bilingual, regionally-focussed media.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1485http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Fresh-and-Wild---Los-Angeles/For 20 years, book designer Lorraine Wild has helped define the visual culture of Los Angeles.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1484http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-Books---The-best-autumn-leafing/Monocle presents the best autumn leafing.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1483http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Prince-of-Pop-Art---New-York/Richard Prince straddles the art world and the Atlantic this October.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:03:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1482http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-Music---Aural-tricks-and-treats-for-October/Aural tricks and treats for October.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1481http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Motor-Mouths---Germany/As the music industry is forced to evolve in the face of digitalisation and online sales, one radio station stands out.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1497http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Fuji-Rock-Festival/Not all rock festivals involve fans having to live in conditions that the UNHCR would deem unfit for human habitation. Japan's annual Fuji Rock Festival is a pop event with a difference.Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=1323http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Make-some-noise--Mexico-City/In 2000 Hector Mijangos founded a clothing range for DJs that led to his branded parties and then the foundation of Noiselab Records. Signing local and international bands, his label has changed Mexico's music scene.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:10:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1248http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Rock-banned---Irans-subversive-127/"Somewhere in this city," says Sohrab Mohebbi, "there is a grown man, who gets dressed in the morning, kisses his wife goodbye, and goes and sits in an office and gets paid to decide that my band can't play in front of 30 of our friends." Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:07:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1247http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-books/Our choice of the month's smartest, most provocative non-fiction.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:06:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1246http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-musicx/From Sheffield Country Soul to ersatz Japanese electronica, these are the sounds of the summer.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1245http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Tee-break---A-publication-for-T-shirt-devotees/"You can go anywhere in the world and people are wearing T-shirts," says Eddie Zammit, founder of the biannual t-shirt magazine "T-World", which launched last year.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:04:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1244http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sound-factory---London/Amid rubble, sawdust and the promise of a David Adjaye-designed interior, Stephen Godfroy is adamant that Rough Trade East is the space to snare the "dormant music shopper".Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1242http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Indian-ink---New-Delhi/Like any entrepreneur worth his bucks, Ajit Singh ignored hackneyed advice such as 'Do not fill up the bookshop with books you like' when setting up Fact & Fiction in New Delhi.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1243http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Citizen-Clean---Zurich/Michael Ringier became the fifth generation of his Swiss family to head their eponymous empire in 1991. Since then, Ringier AG has expanded into eastern Europe and the Far East.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1241http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/The-color-of-money---Germany-Italy-and-Switzerland/The world's leading banks (you know who they are) are behind an estimated 20 per cent of all art purchases - for themselves. What's the motivation for amassing a 50,000-piece strong collection? Monocle finds out on a tour of Zürich, Milan and Frankfurt.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=1240http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/E-sports-in-Korea/One of the by-products of South Korea's broadband boom has been the creation of an online gaming culture unlike anything seen anywhere else.Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=1007http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Arts-cool---Annandale-on-Hudson/The fame academy that's home to America's next generation of artists, writers and thinkers.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:23:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=934http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Waxing-lyrical---Rio-de-Janeiro/The Brazilian publisher of Piaui magazine on how he scored a hit with stories of football-playing priests, limbo and cigarettes.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=933http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sonic-boom---Barcelonas-Sonar-goes-global/Barcelona's Sónar Festival has become a byword for electro-pyrotechnics and musical discovery since its inception in 1994.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=931http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Weird-science---Painleves-nature-films/Jean Painlevé's half-century of mesmerising Surrealist natural history films are required viewing.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:33:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=930http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Transports-of-delight---Slim-pickings-for-summer-travel/Two publishers address the problem of bags bulging with books this summer.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:14:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=929http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Sounds-out-for-summer/Music for July/August, featuring Crowded House, New Young Pony Cliub, Pájaro Sunrise and Tiny Dancers.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:38:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=928http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Serve-chilled---Munich/Successful Soda Books has moved to much larger premises in a different part of Gärtnerplatzviertel.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:22:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=927http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/New-romantics---Barcelona/Jazz Messengers has become a place of pilgrimage for Catalan jazz lovers.Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=926http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Basque-in-the-glory---Bilbao/Has the Guggenheim improved the lives of the locals or just entertained art-loving tourists?Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:37:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=923http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sets-appeal---Shepperton/After studying architecture, Robert Cowper worked his way up from a draughtsman to become an art director on the sets of big-budget films.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:54:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=799http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Holiday-in-Cambodia---Dengue-Fever-sweeps-America/Surf-influenced Cambodian psychedelia inspired the musical backbone of Ethan Holtzman's band, Dengue Fever.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:48:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=797http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Junes-foot-tappers-translated/Music for June, featuring Keren Ann, Pink Martini, Basia Bulat and WilcoFri, 29 Jun 2007 23:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=796http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Love-New-York---The-Whitney-goes-psychedlic/New York's Whitney revisits the explosion in art, music, film and graphic design fostered by the social change of the 1960s.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:42:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=795http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Crimea-Watch---The-USSRs-Hollywood-is-reborn/Yalta Film is aiming to put the Crimea firmly back on the film production map.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:32:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=794http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Just-my-type---Fonts-first-in-an-artful-fairytale/'The Serif Fairy': sweet children's story, elegant picture book and subtle typography tutorial for the offspring of pushy art directors everywhere.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:24:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=792http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Life-support---Tokyo/On Sundays, Tokyo.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:20:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=791http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Eclectic-avenue---Milan/Across the road from a well-known Milanese watering hole, Buscemi Dischi offers patrons the perfect listening post.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:17:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=790http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Korea-moves---Seoul/Thanks to its commitment to a lightning-fast wireless future, South Korea has become a laboratory for mixing pop culture with big business.Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=789http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Turning-rapanese---Tokyo/Verbal, aka Ryu Yong Gi, is half of m-flo, one of Japan's biggest hip-hop acts.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=682http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Paper-curator---Lisbon-Portugal/Until Tema opened 13 years ago, buying an international publication in Portugal - with the exception of Time, Newsweek and Paris Match - was no easy task.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:21:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=680http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Shelf-stackers---Melbourne-Australia/"Greville Street is the most insubstantial bookshop in Melbourne," says Jurate Sasnaitis, who has been artfully stacking shelves in her locally celebrated store for 16 years.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:51:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=679http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/And-an-Other-thing---New-York-USA/Other Music's carefully curated selection of the rare, the weird and the wonderful mopped up Tower's overspill.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:39:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=677http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Taken-for-a-ride---What-it-costs-to-say-on-your-bike/Monocle's favourite ad campaigns aimed at promoting the health and spiritual benefits of cycling are both pithy - but from polar opposite price points:Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:26:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=676http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Im-a-lover-not-a-fighter/This month's music round-up includes Martín Buscaglia, Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark and Loney, Dear.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=675http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Lights-camera-accion---Buenos-Aires/Since the Argentinian economic meltdown in 2002, low wages, skilled professionals and excellent production facilities have seen filmmakers flock to Buenos Aires.Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:17:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=674http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Drawn-together---Paris/The artists, animators and graphic designers Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:55:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=569http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Hearts-on-sleeves---Stockholm-Sweden/A friendly face and idiosyncratic selection have helped Pet Sounds blossom in an age when other record shops have wilted.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:47:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=567http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/News-brothers---Istanbul-Turkey/The Tünel, an underground railway with just two stops, has ferried Istanbulites from Galata to Péra since 1875, and a newsstand has stood at its top station for 60 years.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:30:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=566http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Dream-team---Scandinavia/If money were no object, what would a new, world-beating Scandinavian media organisation look like? Who would work for it? What kind of equipment would they use?Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:40:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=562http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Golden-girls---USA/Who is to blame for a TV news diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes - a public unwilling to engage with global affairs, or the networks trying to brand news as entertainment?Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=559http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Blue-paper-white-lies---Chinese-whispers-delight-commuters/Beijing's "blue tabloids" are a publishing phenomenon and an especially surprising one, given the Communist government's short press leash.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:05:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=558http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---Hip-hop-trip-hop-heartbreak/Issue 02's Monocle Music, April 2007Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:11:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=557http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Novel-concept---Japan/Downloadable novels, written to be read on mobile phones, are the most remarkable success story in Japanese publishing.Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:52:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=556http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Tokyos-Limousine-Bus-Lady/Listen to Kaoru Kubo, the voice of the Airport Limousine buses that ferry passengers to and from Narita Airport every day.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:34:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=987http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Kabul-and-wireless---Afghanistan/The host of Afghanistan's most popular breakfast show. Massood Sanjer.Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:46:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=393http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Zine-shifting---Amsterdam-Netherlands/Zine shifting, in Amsterdam, NetherlandsMon, 18 Jun 2007 13:31:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=392http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Rock-of-ages---San-Francisco-USA/Aquarius Records, in San Francisco. Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:23:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=391http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Between-the-lines---Northumberland-England/Barter Books in Alnwick, England.Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:50:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=386http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Good-migrations---Rome/Italian hip-hop is asking just what it means to be Italian.Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:02:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=385http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Trigger-Happy---Scotland/Dundee is a key hub for the world's computer games industry.Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:13:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=384http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Looking-glass---Tokyos-new-epicentre-for-art/Kisho Kurakawa's new National Art Center in Roppongi.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:47:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=383http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Sold-out---The-stars-of-Japanese-advertising/Which three Japanese stars would you hire for future commercials?Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:37:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=382http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Making-a-mint---A-new-daily-for-India/ Mint is India’s brand-new financial daily.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:23:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=377http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Diary-of-a-movie-deal---Utah/The Sundance Film Festival, January 2007.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:16:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=371http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Lust-in-translation---Bringing-Murakami-to-the-big-screen/'All God's Children Can Dance' is the film adaptation of the Haruki Murakami short story of the same name.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:49:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=370http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Monocle-music---fine-side-lines/In rock music, spring 2007 is the season of the side project.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:09:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=366http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Bandwagon-esque---The-Dan-Brown-spin-off-industry/The Dan Brown spin-off industry.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:01:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=363http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Magazine-Articles/Reel-Rebel---Dubai/Assaad Taha's company, Hot Spot, makes documentaries for Al Jazeera, uncovering and objectively reporting injustices.Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:38:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/MagArticle.aspx?id=359http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Celluloid-Skyline/Monocle visits architect and author James Sanders to discuss his exhibition, Celluloid Skyline, at Grand Central Station, New YorkFri, 01 Jun 2007 12:58:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=985http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/m-flo-Summer-Time-Love/Just when you thought all the fun and sugar had been stripped from the pop video along comes 'Summer Time Love' from m-flo's new album 'Cosmicolor'.Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:15:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=683http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Nordic-News-Network/Monocle plays fantasy broadcasting, creating 'Nordic News Network'. Watch our quick fly-through of the NNN bureau.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:08:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=563http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Title-sequences/Parisian animators Kuntzel+Deygas have put together an exclusive showreel for Monocle, featuring their acclaimed title sequences.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=982http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Winney/Another K+D character, twisting with Madame Clicquot and trying out some new moves.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=978http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Videos/A couple of video installations by K+D, from Capitale de la Création and Designers' Days, Paris.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=981http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Cap-and-Pep/Cap 'n' Pep are two animated creations by Kuntzel+Deygas, which you may have seen appearing at the Parisian colette store, on TV shows for Edouard Baer or for Lacoste.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=980http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Atelier/Kuntzel+Deygas walk Monocle around their atelier.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=979http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Com-Pet/Exclusive preview of a new animated character from K+D. Introducing Com-Pet.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=983http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Kuntzel--Deygas-Music-videos/Music videos from Kuntzel+Deygas, featuring St Germain, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Bertrand Burgalat and Dmitri from Paris.Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=570http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Arman-FM-Afghanistan/Afghanistan's no.1 DJ, Massood Sanjer, talks us through his show.Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:18:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=986http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/All-Gods-Children-Can-Dance-NEW/Premiere of the trailer for the film "All God's Children Can Dance"Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:00 GMThttp://www.monocle.com/Content/WebArticleVideo.aspx?id=984Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:06:49 GMT