The Monexus · Archive
Archive
72,745 dispatches across 27 desks. Search headlines, summaries and tags, or browse by date. Event threads appear once, with earlier dispatches linked from their coverage.
Coverage · 2026 · Culture · 6,168 articles
Clear search and filtersShowing 701–800 of 6,168 · newest first · page 8 of 62
Culture12 Jul
Hideki Noda brings a Japanese reckoning with science to a London stage
Culture12 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey lands amid a YouTube pile-on and a culture-war defence
Culture12 Jul
Three signs of friction in New York: subscriptions, Luddites, and a waterborne outbreak
Culture12 Jul
New York’s summer of friction: a city legislates against the subscription machine while its young push back against the AI one
Culture12 Jul
JPMorgan's AI agents outrun a 60/40 and Netflix floats always-on channels
Culture11 Jul
Haaland's boyhood rap climbs to No. 1 in Norway as Miami lookalikes cash in
Culture11 Jul
Slovakia’s Gen-Z rom-com leans sober without losing the room
Culture11 Jul
At Karlovy Vary, Christos Nikou makes the case for cinema that lingers
Culture11 Jul
A dopamine patch in Shanghai, a US$2.9m bequest in Hefei, and a Bay Area restaurant posting house rules: three small signals from a year when China is read through everything
Culture11 Jul
A US$2.9m will, a Bay Area sign, and the quiet bargaining inside the Chinese diaspora
Culture11 Jul
Logan Browning lands in Harlan Coben's Atlanta: 'I Will Find You' and the quiet recalibration of Netflix's thriller pipeline
Culture11 Jul
A Myanmar film wins Karlovy Vary, and reframes what a queer story from a closed country can sound like
Culture11 Jul
Patel at 54 percent: how prediction markets are rewriting the political news cycle
Culture11 Jul
What the ceasefire didn't save: inside Iran's cultural sites after the war
Culture11 Jul
Yemen's Houthi-run airport authority signals Sanaa-Tehran air corridor will stay open
Culture11 Jul
Kashmir's syllabus police: from school desk to lecture hall
Culture11 Jul
Belgium's golden generation exits the stage: what the trophy drought actually says about modern football
Culture11 Jul
Meg Mason on grittiness, and a Delhi University admissions logjam
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey, Holland's nerves, and the India question Hollywood keeps dodging
Culture11 Jul
Nolan takes the long road to Troy: The Odyssey arrives as a theatrical event, with a cross-cultural halt in India
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey arrives already mid-argument: what the filmmaker's own framing tells us about the next twelve months of cinema
Culture11 Jul
India's new FCRA rules and Nolan's India moment: a country rewrites the rules of civil society while courting the world's filmmakers
Culture11 Jul
Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj lands in Punjab theatres after a release held up for years
Culture11 Jul
Spotify's Release Radar opens up. The listeners' algorithm is now their own to tune
Culture11 Jul
After Phantom Thread, Vicky Krieps Goes to Court in Love Me Tender
Culture11 Jul
An actor's rickshaw, a platform's blind spot: India's AI image crisis meets its economic underclass
Culture11 Jul
The Stunt Question: Prithviraj's Injury, a Year of Delay, and What Indian Cinema Still Won't Say
Culture11 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' lands its first reviews: scale, diversity, and a director at war with inherited framing
Culture11 Jul
A New History of Print Finds Democracy in the Workshop
Culture11 Jul
Tilly Norwood and the quiet rewrite of who counts as a performer
Culture11 Jul
A German fantasy novel, a Hollywood voice, and a push-me-pull-you over who gets to remake children's classics
Culture11 Jul
San Fermín's fourth running leaves nine injured, as a quieter question follows the runners home
Culture11 Jul
A 1998 Film Is the Surprise of the Summer: Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘The Hole’ Returns in 35mm
Culture11 Jul
Morgan Spector in Talks to Lead Netflix's Robert Langdon Series as 'The Secret of Secrets' Moves to Camera
Culture11 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House' reboot makes room for the original — and a horror cameo nobody saw coming
Culture11 Jul
A film, a panel, and a proposed rule change: India rewrites its censorship script
Culture11 Jul
The Satluj dust-up: what an eight-minute film says about India's content rulebook
Culture11 Jul
Against the machine: a New York festival finds its Luddite moment
Culture11 Jul
Letterboxd at the crossroads: two suitors, one indie platform
Culture11 Jul
A Russian summer detour: Chopin festivals and the new map of European classical music
Culture11 Jul
Melius's multi-agent canvas lands the same week Polish cinema leans on the algorithm
Culture11 Jul
Nolan, the Odyssey, and the algorithm's quiet verdict on AI
Culture11 Jul
Four Tet's Wingdings project lands on streaming after a month of vinyl-only silence
Culture10 Jul
India's OTT censor and the film Punjab tried not to forget
Culture10 Jul
Netflix's 'Little House' reboot hands the prairie back to the people who were there first
Culture10 Jul
Ten years on, Lin-Manuel Miranda is still smiling — and still working
Culture10 Jul
France Télévisions bets on prestige adaptation and a MeToo drama to anchor 2026–27 season
Culture10 Jul
Patrushev revives the 'bin Laden was an American asset' claim — and the timing is the story
Culture10 Jul
Disney's Live-Action 'Moana' Bets That Scale Travels Without a Songbook
Culture10 Jul
Ariana Grande exits American Horror Story as the tour wins her calendar
Culture10 Jul
Why Christopher Nolan dedicated ‘The Odyssey’ to the man who taught Hollywood to think in IMAX
Culture10 Jul
Louis Theroux's 'Life Support' premieres in London, a rare Western gaze at Gaza's medical collapse
Culture10 Jul
Reports of Bolshoi chief's hospitalisation expose the fragility of Russian cultural rumour
Culture10 Jul
Arles 2026: why the world's most prestigious photography festival is betting on the unknown
Culture10 Jul
A Black fantasy epic lands in Martha's Vineyard: Prince-Bythewood and Mbedu bring 'Children of Blood and Bone' to opening night
Culture10 Jul
A King Lear at Pitlochry that keeps the throne room out of the frame
Culture10 Jul
Hollywood's Runaway Production Fight Returns to the Capitol — and to the States
Culture10 Jul
A Letter That Says Nothing, and Means Everything: '& Sons' Trailer and the Inheritance Drama That Won't Go Away
Culture10 Jul
Ngozi Onwurah's 'Welcome II the Terrordome' Returns: A 1995 Dystopia, Re-Issued for a New Cycle of Policing and Race
Culture10 Jul
From festival floor to platform feed: how 'Obsession' became Peacock's next micro-budget bet
Culture10 Jul
Locarno bets on curated eccentricity as a smaller festival fights for relevance
Culture10 Jul
The Last Casting Director Who Vetoed a Black Bond
Culture10 Jul
Disney's live-action "Moana" opens with $4.5 million in Thursday previews — a deliberately modest launch ahead of a holiday weekend
Culture10 Jul
Horror Inc.'s Jason Voorhees revival: a franchise factory testing how much IP a streaming market can absorb
Culture10 Jul
India's FEMA net tightens around a Mumbai trader as Europe's migration fight stops being about passport queues
Culture10 Jul
Letterboxd at a quarter-billion: what Netflix actually thinks it is buying
Culture10 Jul
At the UN Security Council, Moscow runs interference for Tehran
Culture10 Jul
Letterboxd is for sale, and Netflix is reportedly circling
Culture10 Jul
Indie horror and the two-headed doll: 'She Saw Us' and the economics of low-budget genre cinema
Culture10 Jul
Nicholas Meyer looks back on the long shadow of 'Wrath of Khan'
Culture10 Jul
A Moscow Festival Tries to Reframe Russia's Wartime Cultural Story
Culture10 Jul
A shrine, a film, a feed: how Iranian state media staged the visual language of mourning
Culture10 Jul
Mashhad reopens its shrine courtyards: a quiet test of Iran's managed-revival politics
Culture10 Jul
Aung Phyoe's 'Fruit Gathering' brings Myanmar's quiet rebellion to Karlovy Vary
Culture10 Jul
Vertical Video Comes of Age: How Short-Form Aesthetics Are Rewriting the Visual Language of Film and Television
Culture10 Jul
Psychic Fever Refuse the Box: Inside the Boy Band's Second Album and Its Anti-Conformity Pitch
Culture10 Jul
Wildcard's First Year: How a Dublin Production Outfit Bought Itself an Instant Catalogue
Culture10 Jul
Stolen Velour, Floco and Aria SL: the south London trio rewriting the club track from the flat up
Culture10 Jul
Five books, one hinge: how 2026's strangest fiction is reading the present
Culture10 Jul
Israel and Egypt hold rare security talks in Cairo as World Cup detente plays out on the sidelines
Culture10 Jul
Latin American Foto Festival lands in the Bronx, pointing the lens at the periphery
Culture10 Jul
France returns 23 Syrian antiquities after 15-year Paris sojourn: a small restitution, a larger argument about provenance
Culture10 Jul
Iraq's medical association sends a thank-you to the government — and the message lands differently than it reads
Culture10 Jul
A young pianist carries a Russian repertoire into the Moscow Conservatory's grand hall
Culture10 Jul
A young man's Mahler: Signum's early-song collection finds the future symphonist hiding in plain sight
Culture10 Jul
Baby Rose turns the wreckage inward on 'Yearnalism'
Culture10 Jul
Strikes on a rail bridge in Iran point to a corridor the US has begun treating as a target
Culture10 Jul
The Bayeux Tapestry lands in Britain, and the politics arrives with it
Culture10 Jul
Heartstopper's final frame: what Netflix's queer teen drama got right about growing up on camera
Culture10 Jul
Anthony Hopkins, Composer: A Late-Career Turn From Screen to Score
Culture10 Jul
"The Invite" and the rise of the unscripted drama
Culture10 Jul
In Johor, the durian thief exposes a fault line running through Malaysian politics
Culture10 Jul
Rent control keeps winning the argument it keeps losing
Culture10 Jul
Notes on a small hall: Schubert and Brahms in the Lopukhin estate
Culture10 Jul
Honolulu Museum of Art Taps David Odo as Director, Drawing a Southeast Asia Curator Into the Pacific Conversation
Culture10 Jul
Arabic-script Tattoos Move From Subculture to Studio Mainstream in New York
Culture10 Jul
Guy Ritchie returns to the country estate: Netflix's 'The Gentlemen' season two teaser leans into the chaos
Culture10 Jul
Fifty-Nine Objects, Three Continents: What New York's Latest Repatriation Tells Us About the Antiquities Trade
Culture10 Jul
Rent control keeps winning the vote and losing the housing market
Culture10 Jul