The Curator

We head to Lisbon for Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference. Then: director of Frieze Seoul Patrick Lee discusses this year’s event and we look back at the life and legacy of Gloria Steinem, who died this week aged 92.
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A robot cleaner catches a cheating wife in Taiwan and President Trump threatens to rename even more bodies of water as his spat with Canada continues. Andrew Mueller on what we learned from this and more of the week’s news.
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We pay tribute to Dolly Parton and Yayoi Kusama, then discuss the best stationery for the return to school. Plus: a lesson on business failures.
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What we learned this week as Canada and the US enter a trade war, President Trump hosts a back-to-school event at the White House and Dan Sullivan stands in Alaska.
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We preview the upcoming Brazilian presidential elections, hop aboard the Freedom Plane as it tours the US and meet Silva – the artist behind Monocle’s album of the summer.
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