Culture / Arts
Leader of the dance
Park Nam Yong has choreographed some of South Korea’s biggest pop icons. He talks to Monocle about succeeding in a tough industry, and about teaching singers with two left feet how to dance.
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Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 13 July
Weekend agenda, 14/15 July
This weekend’s highlights include a new restaurant in New York, modern dance performance in Hong Kong and Frank Ocean’s debut album Channel Orange.
Culture / Film
All God's Children Can Dance
All God's Children Can Dance is the first film adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story in the US. Director Robert Logevall cut a special trailer of the film for Monocle, which we're delighted to present here. Logevall says…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 4 May
Weekend agenda, 5/6 May
This weekend’s highlights include an avant-garde performance in Berlin, a fresh and tasty Italian restaurant in New York’s West Village and the new EP from Londoner Kwes.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 March
Weekend agenda, 3/4 March
This weekend’s highlights include an avant garde dance performance in Taipei, a new exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, and a much-anticipated re-release of one of Bertolucci’s classic films.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 2 March
Weekend agenda 02/03 March
This weekend look out for a Norwegian dance spectacular in Montréal, the art works of a Japanese master in Tokyo, and enjoy live dates by Parisian singer Melody’s Echo Chamber.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 16 March
Weekend agenda 16/17 March
This weekend look out for inspiring Korean contemporary art in Hong Kong, appreciate the works of a 20th-century master in London, and check out the new album by German dance music trio Brandt Brauer Frick.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 17 March
Weekend agenda, 17/18 March
This weekend’s highlights include Chris Pandel’s new Italian restaurant in Chicago, a surrealist dance performance by the Hong Kong Dance Company and a much anticipated festival of affordable art in London.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 15 April
Weekend Agenda: 16/17 April 2011
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global pick of exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, neat 19th-century men’s tailoring to ogle and the first of the summer music festivals to dance at.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 7 October
Weekend agenda 8/9 October
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection of things to do and see include a comics festival, Asian contemporary art and a stylish political thriller.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 20 April
Weekend agenda, 21/22 April
This weekend’s highlights include dance in Hong Kong, a new collaborative exhibition in LA’s Culver City and the release of Santigold’s new album.
Midori House, episode 114
Why academics are rebelling at Yale, a look at South Korean politics, and a visit to one of Midori House’s dance school neighbours.
The Review, episode 51
Roslyn Sulcas of the International Herald Tribune reviews “Dance Umbrella” and Simon Prosser of Hamish Hamilton and Penguin previews the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The Review, episode 56
We talk theatre with International Herald Tribune critic Matt Wolf and discuss the current state of dance music with DJ and Author Bill Brewster.
The Review, episode 40
Chat with a New Zealand bookstore owner, dance music connoisseur Christopher Tubbs selcts tunes, and Josh Fanning of Adelaide’s Collect magazine picks our weekly reads.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 April
Weekend agenda 27/28 April
This weekend check out an Argentinian contemporary film classic, see the works of Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg in New York, and enjoy the new album from Berlin-based dance music producer David August.
Culture / Music
Monocolumn
Friday 19 April
Smart moves
South Korean soft-power savant – Psy – is back. But repeating the success of his global dance craze "Gangnam Style" will require some forward-thinking.
Culture / Diplomacy
Art attack
Today most countries prefer to assert their international identity with artists not armies. We profile the cultural missions of four countries out to win friends with dancing dragons and alternative art.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 March
Great expectations for Obama’s visit
The excitement has been building over the last few weeks. Children from the two schools he attended in Jakarta have been learning American songs and traditional dances in the hope they will get to perform for him.