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Carey Young, Income Tax, 2020
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Current art-funding schemes, despite their meritocratic veneer, remain incurably unjust. It is time, says Michaële Cutaya, for a radical shake-up.
Mitchell Anderson on embodiment in the US artist’s audio tour of the gallery space
Following the controversial special issue of leftist art magazine Texte zur Kunst, Sarah E James asks what happens when anti-anti-Semitism meets the ‘alt-right’
Lin Er-Ying on the lessons to be learned from this cautionary tale of Biosphere 2, the spectacular but doomed 1980s ecological experiment
Lauren Velvick on the variety of approaches, from browser plug-ins to web interruptions, that artists and organisations are using to present art online
London | Sandra Mujinga The Approach opens Thu 21 Jan |
Cork | Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland Lewis Glucksman Gallery opens Fri 22 Jan |
London | Svere Malling Kristin Hjellegjerde opens Fri 22 Jan |
Bexhill | All in the Same Storm: Pandemic Patchwork Stories De La Warr Pavilion opens Sat 23 Jan |
Bexhill | Rock Against Racism: Militant Entertainment 1976-82 De La Warr Pavilion opens Sat 23 Jan |
London | Kara Chin VITRINE opens Sun 24 Jan |
Presented by Mark William Lewis
Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington on the ever-widening gap in the UK art world between social, cultural and political realities; artists’ responses to the US’s denial of its colonial history; and the recent work of Irish artist Eimear Walshe.
Presented by Matt Hale
Tom Denman and Sophie J Williamson discuss artists who counteract paradigms of racial representation, and also those who reveal unspoken taboos in art through the intimacy of being with someone dying.
Presented by Matt Hale
Mark Wilsher and Adan Heardman consider the notion of presence in art during a pandemic and discuss Elizabeth Price’s Artangel video installation ‘Slow Dans’.
So much expected so little delivered – Michael Corris on post 9/11 art from the USA
Richard Hylton discusses the rise in thematic shows of black artists
Anna Dezeuze on art and the climate of censorship that bedevils relations between the US, Israel and the Palestinians
Colin Perry on the vexed relationship between art and TV
Eddie Chambers argues that this BBC Radio 4 series continues the UK’s marginalisation of major 20th-century African-American artists
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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.
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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