« Le manifestant » a été désigné, mercredi 14 décembre, « personne de l’année » par l’hebdomadaire américain Time : un hommage très large, qui inclut les protestataires « du printemps arabe à Athènes, d’Occupy Wall Street à Moscou ». « Le manifestant », dessiné en couverture par l’artiste Shepard Fairey, auteur du fameux portrait de Barack Obama Hope, a été désigné...

En ces heures européennes capitales, Nicolas Sarkozy ne devrait pas lire le portrait de lui que vient de dresser le prestigieux New Yorker, sous peine de perdre son sang-froid. Lire la suite : Nicolas Sarkozy, le « would be » Napoleon que personne n’aime, dans un portrait décapant du New Yorker – Great America.

FREE CD! ROOTS OF NIRVANA: Distorted sounds from the punk underground featuring The Vaselines, Big Black, Mudhoney, Meat Puppets, Iggy & The Stooges, Flipper, Melvins, Fang, Young Marble Giants, Green River, Beat Happening, Shonen Knife and more! (Hear tracks from the CD here) NIRVANA & THE NOISE OF ’91: Twenty years on, MOJO looks...

Le journal Publié à New York depuis 1922, ce magazine est une référence mondiale en matière de relations internationales. Organe de l’influent Council on Foreign Relations, il contribue à confronter analyses de chercheurs et de politiciens… et à faire émerger la prochaine politique étrangère américaine. Par son lectorat comme par la qualité des contributions,...

« The World Faces a Population Bomb. » Yes, but of old people. Not so long ago, we were warned that rising global population would inevitably bring world famine. As Paul Ehrlich wrote apocalyptically in his 1968 worldwide bestseller, The Population Bomb, « In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...

Giving us hope for the future, our heroes have been selected for their talents and problem-solving skills. During the recession everyone’s had to up their game and these people go the extra mile to make the world a better place. Here is the summary. For Monocle’s December-January double issue, we look at the subject...

Frank Zappa said that rock journalism « is people who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read… » But we don’t care. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of his birth, MOJO has produced a 148-page special edition in the great man’s honour. Inside: the...

We’re easily fooled. Whether it’s a simple optical illusion or clever trickery from Derren Brown, our eyes often deceive us. But why are we so gullible and might it actually come in handy? Science superpower Within the next 10 years, China could become the world’s most prolific producer of scientific knowledge. But what’s behind...

To honor the entry of Fall, we have one of the most prolific and active artists going today, Greg « Craola » Simkins on the cover of the magazine for October 2010 issue. We are pleased he took time out and spoke with contributing writer, J Frede and an epic shoot with Kevin Knight. We are...

In this issue MOJO CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF ELEKTRA RECORDS! FREE CD! JOURNEY TO LOVE: 15 RARE & EARLY ELEKTRA CLASSICS: Compiled and sequenced by Jac Holzman and featuring Tom Rush, Tim Buckley, The Dillards, Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Love, Fred Neil and many more! ELEKTRA 60: America’s most adventurous label at 60! Elektra’s...

Dans un article mis en ligne le 24 septembre et qui sera en couverture de son édition de la semaine du 4 octobre, Newsweek analyse la montée de l’extrême droite en Europe et note, au sujet de la France : « En France, le Président Nicolas Sarkozy, à la recherche d’un élan populiste pour atténuer sa...

The word “psychopath” conjures up movie images of brutal, inexplicable violence: Jack Nicholson chasing his family with an ax in The Shining or Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, his face locked into an armored mask to keep him from biting people to death. But real life offers another set of images, that of killers...

Modern technology like Facebook and Twitter is providing us with new ways to get hooked. But new research into our brains is helping us understand our inner demons. The Secrets of Stonehenge After the recent discovery of a second henge, Focus looks at the cutting-edge tech which could uncover even more hidden archaeological sites....

We are at a global inflection point. Half the world’s population is now urban — and half the world’s most global cities are Asian. The 2010 Global Cities Index, a collaboration between Foreign Policy, management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, reveals a snapshot of this pivotal moment. In...

Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan...

The September issue of Juxtapoz is kind of like the All-Star Game. You have Retna, Jeffrey Deitch, INSA, Richard Colman, KC Ortiz, Pose, Allyson Mellberg, and Jamie Caliri all in there just in time for back to school and back to work and whatever « fall » back things you have going on. Our newsstand cover,...

Comme toujours dans The Economist, c’est la couverture qui frappe : Carla Bruni accompagne le bicorne de Bonaparte, qui se déplace grâce à un mini-Sarkozy. Le très libéral -et libertaire- hebdomadaire britannique, qui l’avait soutenu en 2007, qualifie en titre Nicolas Sarkozy de « Président qui rétrécit », car l’homme « ne semble plus savoir ce qu’il veut »....

It was some four years ago that Leif Ove Andsnes walked away with the Gramophone Award for Best Concerto Recording. It wasn’t a surprise – Andsnes’s magnificent recording of Rachmaninov’s first two piano concertos has been generally hailed, not least by Gramophone, where Jeremy Nicholas placed it among the very finest available. Now the...

Exclusive interview: Hilary Hahn Richard Morrison meets the outstanding young American violinist. Plus you can hear her perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 on your free cover CD! Nikolaj Znaider The violinist on using the ‘right’ instrument for his recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto Unexpected composers The famous writers, poets, scientists, actors and politicians...

Frame Magazine Frame is the world’s barometer of interior design. The magazine shows you what’s happening and where to find it. The latest interiors and products, spiced up with some art, shop windows and sets: that’s the essence of Frame magazine. We gather the most interesting work from around the globe and package it...