TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976

Art Monthly is the UK's leading magazine of contemporary visual art. Published 10 times a year, it keeps you in touch with today's fast-moving artworld through in-depth features, interviews with leading lights, profiles on rising stars and up-to-the-minute coverage of trends from independent critics.

In addition to the extensive reviews section covering exhibitions and books, Art Monthly is the only magazine with regular columns on artists' books and multiples, new media, auction activity and legal issues. It is the first with news and views.

If you want to get closer to the ideas behind new art, you need to read Art Monthly.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY...

Founded in 1976 by Peter Townsend and Jack Wendler, Art Monthly is Britain’s oldest, most authoritative and challenging contemporary art magazine whose editorial policy has remained fundamentally unchanged from that outlined in the first editorial: ‘to provide informed coverage on contemporary art and the issues that surround it’.

The first issue of Art Monthly carried an obituary for Marcel Broodthaers designed by Richard Hamilton and included an artist’s page by Carl Andre in response to the ‘bricks at the Tate’ controversy at the time.

Still controversial, Art Monthly continues to be at the cutting edge of contemporary art and issues: it was the first magazine to identify and debate the ‘yBa’ phenomenon — the term was coined by Simon Ford in a feature entititled ‘Myth Making’ published back in March 1996 — and it was one of the first publications to investigate fully the implications of Charles Saatchi's contribution of to the British art scene in the feature ‘Sense and Sensation’ by Art Monthly Editor Patricia Bickers in November 1997. Recently the Art Monthly roadshow has been launched, a travelling programme of one-day conferences covering topics as wide-ranging as the changing roles of the critic and curator, fact and fiction in documentary art, art and institutionalisation.

Art Monthly is dedicated to covering the visual arts in context — aesthetic, intellectual, historical, political, legal, social, institutional, commercial and technological — in features, interviews, reviews, profiles, reports and polemics, as well as regularly reviewing artists’ books, multiples, video, internet art, books and film. Its regular columns analyse factors in the art world from Artlaw to the Art Market.

Art Monthly has interviewed hundreds of artists since 1976 including John Baldessari, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Martin, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Anya Gallaccio, Barbara Kruger, Steve McQueen, Ed Ruscha, Gillian Wearing, David Hockney, Mark Wallinger, Mike Nelson, Tacita Dean and Angela Bulloch.

Many now established artists received their first serious review, or their first in a British publication, in the pages of Art Monthly, among them Thomas Demand, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shirin Neshat, Cornelia Parker, Rachel Whiteread and Andrea Zittel, while artists profiled at formative moments early in their careers include: Fiona Banner, Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing.

Acclaimed as one of the shrewdist, and certainly most readable of market analysts, Colin Gleadell’s regular Salerooms column provides inside information on the workings of the international contemporary art market.

In his regular Artlaw column pioneering art law specialist Henry Lydiate guides readers through the intricacies of legal issues such as droit de suite, the handling of artists’ estates and copyright issues. The Artlaw columns are now available on the Artquest website www.artquest.org.uk.

Art Monthly has published and continues to publish some of the best and most diverse writing on contemporary art. It has discovered and fostered many new writers, while continuing to publish the views of some of the most distinguished voices in British contemporary art of the last 30 years. Among the hundreds of artists, curators, critics and art historians who have written for Art Monthly are Dawn Ades, Michael Archer, Dave Beech, Iwona Blazwick, Eddie Chambers, JJ Charlesworth, Lynne Cooke, Alex Farquharson, Peter Fuller, Margaret Garlake, Liam Gillick, Mel Gooding, Charles Harrison, Matthew Higgs, Donald Judd, Joseph Masheck, Michael Newman, Paul Overy, Barbara Pollack, Genesis P-Orridge, John Roberts, Irving Sandler, Julian Stallabrass, Polly Staple, Brandon Taylor, Andrew Wilson and Sarah Wilson. Few other art magazines can equal the range of writers who have contributed to Art Monthly and continue to make it one of the most vital forums for gaining a truly critical insight into the many worlds of contemporary art.

Editor Patricia Bickers
Deputy Editor Ian Hunt
Assistant Editor / Events Co-ordinator Frederika Whitehead
Listings Chris McCormack
Advertising Matt Hale / Chris McCormack
Subscriptions / Distribution Brendan Fan
Publisher Jack Wendler
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