Monocle 24: The Monocle Arts Review

A review of the latest country releases by Nikki Lane, Little Bandit and Whitney Rose.

Ossian Ward reviews two UK pop-artist blockbusters: David Hockney at the Tate Britain and Eduardo Paolozzi at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Jason Solomons reviews ‘Moonlight’, ‘Hidden Figures’ and ‘The Founder’.

John Mitchinson reviews the latest book releases by Clover Stroud, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jacob Polley.

Dominic Maxwell reviews the latest from London’s theatres, including ‘The Glass Menagerie’, ‘The Pitchfork Disney’ and ‘Beware of Pity’.

Laura Snapes reviews the latest releases by US electropop band Muna, Swedish musician Jens Lekman and the experimental Mega Bog.

Francesca Gavin reviews ‘Myths of the Marble’ in Oslo, Wolfgang Tillmans in London and Omer Fast in Berlin.

This week we review ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ and ‘20th Century Women’, and preview the Berlin Film Festival.

Author and critic Cathy Rentzenbrink joins us in the studio to talk through memoirs by writers Howard Cunnell and Clover Stroud, as well as the latest novel by 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' author John Boyne.

Alice Vincent, arts and entertainment writer for ‘The Telegraph’, joins Tom Edwards in the studio to discuss Netflix’s latest original cannibalistic comedy ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ and Hulu’s cult drama ‘The Path’.

In this week’s music review, broadcaster and DJ Nick Luscombe brings in the latest music by London four-piece Hejira, American-Japanese trio Halo Orbit and Hot Chip drummer Pillow Person.

We round up the art shows to see in London this week at Victoria Miro, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Whitechapel gallery.

From period drama to a slasher comedy about pregnancy, we invite film critic Anna Smith to review the week’s film releases: ‘Loving’, ‘Toni Erdmann’ and ‘Prevenge’.

Books editor at 'The Bookseller', Alice O'Keeffe, brings in the novels that she’s looking forward to this month by the authors Kate Hamer, Sara Baume and Ayobami Adebayo.

This month’s podcast review features Gimlet’s ‘Reply All’ and CBC’s ‘Sleepover’. Plus we discuss the enduring appeal of ‘This American Life’ and ‘Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review’ and what younger podcasts can learn from them.

Rebecca Grierson, music supervisor at creative music agency Catalyst, brings in her tracks of the week by Max Richter, Gabriel Garzón-Montano and Ariel Pink and Weyes Blood.

We round up the best of London’s art this week, with visits to the Gagosian, the White Cube gallery and Condo, the art festival that is bringing international galleries to the UK capital.

We discuss the 2017 Oscar nominees and review this week’s film releases: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, ‘Denial’ and ‘T2: Trainspotting’.

For this week’s literary review we leaf through the latest books by Gwendoline Riley, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and Miranda Emmerson.

What will happen to TV in the age of Trump? Tom Edwards discusses with ‘Globe and Mail’ television critic John Doyle. Plus: we review two new Netflix series, ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Frontier’.