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Radical Jewishness
Caspar Heinemann argues that curators have downplayed politics in Nicole Eisenman’s Whitechapel Gallery show
Ali Cherri
Maria Walsh on the Lebanese artist‘s use of dreamlike visions to negotiate conflict
Open City Documentary Festival 2023: The Art of Non-Fiction
Alex Fletcher reports on the contested role of subjectivity in recent documentary filmmaking
Naomi Pearce: Innominate
Jonathan P Watts on the forensic feminist methodology at the heart of an artist studio mystery novel
Artists in a Time of War
Max L Feldman finds that this historical survey exhibition is nevertheless most focused on current events in Ukraine and Afghanistan
Exhibition Openings
| Wexford | Aisling Wexford Arts Centre opens Mon 4 Dec |
| London | Lapsus Calami Marlborough opens Fri 8 Dec |
| London | Brave and Pathetic is Better than Drowning in Shame Cell Project Space opens Fri 8 Dec |
| Glasgow | Stories from Within Transmission Gallery opens Fri 8 Dec |
| Belfast | Niamh McCann The MAC opens Fri 8 Dec |
| Dundee | Michelle Williams Gamaker DCA opens Sat 9 Dec |
Recent Podcasts
13-Nov-23
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Anna Dezeuze & Maria Walsh
Presented by Matt Hale
Anna Dezeuze discusses whether it is possible for art to turn the tide on ‘alt-right’ conspiracy theories, and Maria Walsh explores the work of Lebanese artist filmmaker Ali Cherri.
9-Oct-23
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Matthew Bowman & Bob Dickinson
Presented by Matt Hale
Matthew Bowman goes in search of lost experience in the commercially co-opted field of immersive art and Bob Dickinson argues that citizen artists can intervene to halt the seemingly inexorable process of gentrification.
11-Sep-23
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Sophie J Williamson & Bob Dickinson
Presented by Matt Hale
Sophie J Williamson assesses the turn towards art-food practices, particularly fermentation, and how these can be politicised to counter societal decay, and Bob Dickinson argues that it is time to repair the damage done by rampant individualism, the hallmark of both modernist and neoliberal cultures, which has undermined social cohesion in art and society.
From the Back Catalogue
Unreliable Evidence
Francis Frascina on countering histories
The Look of War
Julian Stallabrass examines political and corporate interests in relation to images of war
Public Art, Private Amenities
Sara Selwood assesses the state of public art whilst some of it sinks into the Mersey
Expresso Punko
Following the orgy of 1960s nostalgia, Andrew Wilson reviews the inevitable revival of interest in 1970s Punk signalled by a clutch of new books on the subject
Cuts
Dave Beech on the neoliberal agenda behind the cuts in arts education
Found: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
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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
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.
2023 Winner
Dreaming Rivers
Leena Habiballa considers the physical reworking of a pioneering film’s 16mm print
2023 Commended
Queer Territories/Lesbian Lenses
Aislinn Evans on coming out as a filmmaker
Excavating the Body
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona explores Ashanti Harris’s Black Gold
2022 Winners
In Defence of the Small Screen
Laura Bivolaru on viewing the moving image while moving
I Am a Photograph
Evelyn Wh-ell examines two French trans icons’ focus on image as surface
2022 Commended
Going on a Bear Hunt
Dan Guthrie tries to imagine the experience of an elusive artwork
Robert Beavers
Siavash Minoukadeh on the power of oblique suggestion in queer cinema
2021 Winner
Out in the Open
Sara Quattrocchi Febles explores how a film can no longer be fixed in time and place when screened outdoors
2021 Commended
Danielle Dean
Rosa Tyhurst on Danielle Dean’s subverting of the vampiric strategies at work in brand marketing
Blank Space
Ronnie Angel Pope enters a cinematic void
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Commended
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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