Steve Pill

3 weeks ago | discoverbritain.com | Steve Pill

If Westminster Abbey were in almost any other place in the world, it would rightly be the focus of every tourist’s smartphone camera. It is, after all, one of the world’s greatest churches, a Gothic masterpiece with a history stretching back more than a millennia. Yet the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster (to give it its formal title) sits across Abingdon Street from the Houses of Parliament, so it finds itself both literally and metaphorically in the shadow of Big Ben.

Oct 23, 2024 | monocle.com | Steve Pill |Scott Bryan |Fernando Augusto Pacheco |Chris Power

LThis month, our survey of the best cultural offerings ranges from a Swedish heist series to a new translation of a forgotten Argentinian novel and an exhibition from one of the masters of expressionism. DahomeyMati DiopThe winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Mati Diop’s latest picture is part documentary and part magical-realist fable. It follows 26 African artefacts as they journey back from a Paris museum to Benin.

Feb 21, 2024 | monocle.com | Josh Fehnert |Fernando Augusto Pacheco |Anna Bogutskaya |Steve Pill

By ByJosh Fehnert,Fernando Augusto Pacheco,Anna Bogutskaya,Steve Pill,Chloë Ashby,Scott BryanPhotographyConstantin Brancusi,Channel 4,HBO,Judith Kaufmann,Käthe Kollwitz,Nicholas Matthews,Boris Mikhaïlov,Neopa,Netflix,Tony Hay

Nov 15, 2023 | monocle.com | Fernando Augusto Pacheco |Anna Bogutskaya |Scott Bryan |Steve Pill

LFrom banging beachside electronica in Barcelona to erotic trysts in the world of tennis and vital modernist depictions of New York, 2024 promises to be another vintage year for culture worldwide. Here we sift through the most innovative offerings of the coming months and bring you the strictly unmissable. Sanremo Festival, Italy 6–10 FebruaryThe music festival that’s even older (and at times camper) than Eurovision is back. Tributes will be paid to Italy’s pop prince Salvatore “Toto” Cutugno.

Oct 19, 2023 | monocle.com | Steve Pill |Anna Bogutskaya |Fernando Augusto Pacheco |Scott Bryan

LFrom a searing look at the travails of North Korean defectors to glimpses of beauty through a German master’s viewfinder, we present the season’s cultural highlights. Herbert Boeckl – Oskar KokoschkaAlbertina Modern, ViennaTwo of Austria’s finest expressionist painters finally share a stage. Herbert Boeckl’s Cézanne-inspired landscapes and still lifes brim with personality, while Oskar Kokoschka’s agitated brushwork remains bracingly modern.