June 4, 2023 – Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, Fabienne Kinzelmann and Oliver Strijbis discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories in Zürich.
Plus: we check in with our friends and correspondents in Ljubljana, Hamburg and London.
June 4, 2023 – Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, Fabienne Kinzelmann and Oliver Strijbis discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories in Zürich.
Plus: we check in with our friends and correspondents in Ljubljana, Hamburg and London.
Monocle on Saturday, June 3, 2023: Updates on the weekend’s culture news and current affairs with Emma Nelson.
British classical-music radio and television broadcaster Petroc Trelawny reviews the papers, French journalist Agnès Poirier discusses France’s debt and Monocle’s Monica Lillis speaks with author Beth Lewis about cults.
Philip Mould & Co Films (June 2, 2023) – Starting off at Charleston House, where Stephen Tomlin’s friends, lovers, and sitters came together, this exhibition film traces Tomlin’s life and career, revealing the stories behind the artworks on display in ‘Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin’, on view at the Philip Mould Gallery from 5th June until 11th August 2023.
Stephen Tomlin, the Bloomsbury group’s primary sculptor, immortalised the faces of Bloomsbury’s best-known characters, including Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf. With inexhaustible charisma, disarming good looks and undeniable talent, Tomlin captivated his contemporaries, and references to Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin pepper countless biographies of 20th century figures.
However, until recently, that was where his story remained. Now, this exhibition aims to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs.
Phillips (May 31, 2023) – A tour of gallery highlights including an important group of fabric works from artists including Grayson Perry, Damien Hirst, Louise Bourgeois, and Tracey Emin.
![]() Andy Warhol – Alexander the Great (1982) | ![]() Andy Warhol – Marilyn (1967( |
Andy Warhol’s unique trial proof of Alexander the Great and two Marilyn screenprints, along with Pop Art by Keith Haring and Robert Indiana are featured.
![]() Robert IndianaThe Book of Love, 1996 | ![]() Roy Lichtenstein I Love Liberty, 1982 |
Further highlights include Contemporary Street Art from the likes of Banksy and an auction debut for Thierry Noir’s East Side Heads, which will be offered alongside significant Pablo Picasso linocuts and lithographs.
Times Literary Supplement (June 2, 2023): The Last Days of Weimar – Lesley Chamberlain on German culture before the catastrophe; Michel Houellebecq in the buff; Death by Dementia; The Art of Sex and Champagne socialist guilt.
An early Flemish painter’s claim to greatness
An abstractionist artist who was guided by the spirit world
Halcyon Gallery (May 30, 2023) – Feeding Consciousness presents the most ambitious exhibition to date by leading digital artist Dominic Harris.
25 MAY—13 AUGUST 2023
Harnessing the magical, fantastical and the sublime, Harris invites the viewer to explore his intricately created worlds, igniting imagination and offering a glimpse of the infinite. Harris’ visual inventions have been digitally painted by hand through a painstaking process that is comparable to traditional oil painting, though his use of technology as a means to produce movement and interaction, creates an immediacy with the viewer that no ordinary still life ever could.
frevonyc presents ‘Altered Lands’, the first show by British artist Jake Wood-Evans on US soil, an exhibition curated by one of Europe’s most exciting independent galleries, Unit London.
Jake Wood-Evans presents a conscious shift from figure towards landscape. With Altered Lands Wood-Evans explores references from eighteenth and nineteenth-century English artists, examining how these artworks communicate notions of transience, nostalgia, and intangibility through a contemporary lens.
With a focus on John Constable, Benjamin Williams Leader, and the overlooked landscape works of Gainsborough, Wood-Evans continues to unravel the thread that weaves through his entire practice, using the familiar as a tool to uncover something new.
Unit London is one of London’s leading independent, artist-led galleries. It was founded in 2013 by two young British artists, Joe Kennedy, and Jonny Burt. They had a vision of creating a gallery that champions and supports the world’s most gifted emerging artists in a manner that is open, inclusive, and accessible.
May 28, 2023 – Emma Nelson, Tessa Szyszkowitz and Enrico Franceschini on the weekend’s biggest stories. We speak to Tyler Brûlé in Tokyo, Hannah Lucinda Smith in Istanbul and get the latest from the Cannes Film Festival.
Monocle on Saturday, May 27, 2023: The weekend’s biggest stories with Emma Nelson. CNN’s Europe editor Nina Dos Santos reviews the papers.
Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent Petri Burtsoff defends Finnish summers, and an interview with Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, whose exhibition, “Maresias”, opens at the Turner Contemporary in Margate today.
Royal Academy of Arts (May 27, 2023) – Writer and broadcaster Emma Dabiri explores Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South.
17 March – 18 June 2023
The exhibition features Black artists who created some of the most spectacular and ingenious works of the last century. Working in near isolation from established practices, they made masterpieces that tackle issues such as enslavement, segregation and institutionalized racism. The exhibition runs until 18 June 2023.