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High Streets for All?
Matthew Noel-Tod on the instrumentalisation of artists by property developers in a time of crisis
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Chloe Carroll shows that the artist’s background in architecture enables her to interrogate the identarian influence of cultural spaces
Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience
Francis Frascina discovers the limits of this collection of essays focused on art that nurtures change
Dan Hicks: The Brutish Museums
George Vasey on the argument that museums must care for people more than objects
Lottery Lives
Current art-funding schemes, despite their meritocratic veneer, remain incurably unjust. It is time, says Michaële Cutaya, for a radical shake-up.
Exhibition Openings
| Newcastle | Slow Breath The Newbridge Project opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Nalini Malani Whitechapel Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Eileen Agar Whitechapel Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Desde el Salón Whitechapel Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Jennifer Packer Serpentine Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | James Barnor Serpentine Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| Southend-on-Sea | Open Call Screening Programme Focal Point Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Freud and Pandemic Freud Museum opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 South London Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
| London | Art Assassins South London Gallery opens Wed 19 May |
Recent Podcasts
12-Apr-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan
Presented by Chris McCormack
Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan on the use of advertising space by artists, the ‘Framework for Resilience’ discussion at Fact and ART CLUB2000 at Artists Space.
8-Mar-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Chris Clarke, Bob Dickinson & Lauren Velvick
Presented by Alex Hull
Chris Clarke on his interview with Phil Collins; Bob Dickinson asks can we free ourselves from capitalist pressures to keep working; Lauren Velvick on artist Jade Montserrat.
8-Feb-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz & Conal McStravick
Presented by Chris McCormack
Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz and Conal McStravick on art-world manoeuvres over the past decade, photography books by David Levi Strauss and Jörg Colberg, and the work of Scottish artist Jamie Crewe.
From the Back Catalogue
To Boycott or Not to Boycott?
Dave Beech asks the question
Inside Out
Dave Beech on the fall of public art
Eddie Chambers: Things Done Change
Richard Hylton on Eddie Chambers’s challenge to art institutions and their treatment of black British artists
Fascinating Fascism?
Barbara Pollack finds she is still not ready to forgive and forget for art’s sake
America Rising
So much expected so little delivered – Michael Corris on post 9/11 art from the USA
Found: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
Get the Art Monthly Missing Issue now!
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.
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Runners-up
Alberta Whittle: RESET
Harvey Dimond explores the historical resonances of this slavery-referencing artwork made during a suffocating pandemic
Together, Alone: Watching Sandra Lahire in Lockdown
Rachel Pronger discovers in earlier experimental films a familiar tension between the social being and the individual body
2019 Winners
Image Abrasion
Cassandre Greenberg considers Derek Jarman’s Blue as a celluloid artefact in an age of portable digital media
Patrick Staff: On Venus
Laura Jacobs on hostile environments, both social and natural, in Patrick Staff’s ‘On Venus’ exhibition
2018 Winner
Bank – Basement – Becker
Adam Hines-Green on the expression of horror through both fiction and reality in the LA video art of Julie Becker
2017 Winners
Heat Sensitive?
Lauren Houlton on Richard Mosse’s ‘Incoming’ exhibition
A Long Shot
Dan Ward on artists’ attempts to slow the viewer
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