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Hosted by Matt Hale
Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience.
Hosted by Chris McCormack
Chris Clarke on Austria’s steirischer herbst festival; Tosia Leniarska reports from the Survival Kit festival in Latvia; Virginia Whiles discusses the pairing of Mona Hatoum and Alberto Giacometti’s work at the Barbican.
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.
Vaishna Surjid on a doomsday performance that nevertheless suggests ways forward
Larne Abse Gogarty discovers a pointed layering of references in the American painter’s retrospective
Chris Clarke encounters an art festival that accepts war is inevitable
Mark Hutchinson argues that new approaches to curating aestheticise politics
Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography
Aoife Rosenmeyer asks how should we coexist with robots and intelligent machines
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.
Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad
Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking
Oliver Dixon revisits the work of experimental documentary filmmakers
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
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
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