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Exhibition Openings

Newcastle Susie Davies Newcastle Contemporary Art opens Fri 26 Sep | PV 26 Sep
London Lawrence Lek Goldsmiths CCA opens Fri 26 Sep | PV 25 Sep
London Maria Toumazou Hot Wheels opens Fri 26 Sep
London Javier Barrios Ilenia opens Fri 26 Sep
London Grant Mooney Chisenhale Gallery opens Fri 26 Sep
London Yto Barrada South London Gallery opens Fri 26 Sep
London Shen Xin TINA opens Fri 26 Sep
London Ding Yi Lisson Gallery Lisson st opens Fri 26 Sep | PV 25 Sep
London Cai Guo-Qiang White Cube Bermondsey opens Fri 26 Sep
Liverpool Stephen King Open Eye Gallery opens Fri 26 Sep
 

Recent Podcasts

8-Sep-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Lillian Wilkie & Dave Beech

Hosted by Matt Hale

Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world.

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14-Jul-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Morgan Falconer & Tom Denman

Hosted by Matt Hale

Morgan Falconer asks whether contemporary art is in decline and, if so, why; Tom Denman wonders why there is deafening silence in the art world as the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms.

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9-Jun-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Morgan Quaintance

Hosted by Chris McCormack

Morgan Quaintance analyses the absence of discussion of working-class lives in the arts, and the cultural influence of the middle class in how such lives are understood.

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Recent Articles

Art Monthly 489

Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell: Direct Action

Nicholas Gamso finds inherent tensions in this attempt to document radical activism

Art Monthly 488

Letter from Amman

In Jordan Mark Sheerin encounters softly spoken artworks that nevertheless burn with urgency

Art Monthly 487

Nolan Oswald Dennis: throwers

Amrita Dhallu finds the South African artist’s imaginative history of stone throwing has become a foundation for worldmaking

 

From the Back Catalogue

Art Monthly 459

Art Engagement

Lizzie Lloyd asks whether an artist needs to describe themselves as socially engaged in order to engage socially

Art Monthly 449

Representing Destruction

Matthew Bowman considers the role of archives in recording and representing the destruction of art by artists and by others

Art Monthly 459

Art/Class

Bob Dickinson wonders whether working-class culture can survive in the UK

 

Michael O’Pray Prize

The Michael O’Pray Prize is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative launched in 2017 in partnership with Art Monthly, supported by University of East London and Arts Council England. The prize seeks new writing on innovation and experimentation in moving-image art. Read the winning texts below.

Not to Scale

Bami Oke examines Garrett Bradley’s embodied video reflection on US culture

The Screen is a Drum

E De Zulueta explores the delirious resistance of Mexican filmmakers Colectivo los ingrávidos

Looking at Palestine

Nevan Spier views Palestine through the films of Mustafa Abu Ali and Elia Suleiman

 

Edinburgh Art Festival x Art Monthly Writer’s Award

Edinburgh Art Festival x Art Monthly Writer’s Award is an open call opportunity that supports the winner in attending the Festival then writing a text in response to any part of the EAF programme. Read the winner’s text below.

Shifting Perceptions in Edinburgh
Seán Ward discovers Edinburgh’s radical side via the 2024 art festival

Almanac Prize

The Almanac Prize results in a text commissioned by Almanac Projects in collaboration with Art Monthly and the Black Cultural Archives as part of Almanac’s open call Writer in Residence 2022 initiative. Read the winner’s text below.

Rene Matic
Leanne Petersen responds to Rene Matic’s practice in dialogue with Black Cultural Archives’ collection

Found: The Missing Issue

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Issue 16 from May 1978

Issue 15 was dated March 1978

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Publications

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Interviews with artists since 2007

 

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Talking Art

Interviews with artists since 1976

 
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