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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE REBIRTHING ROOM
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on a video-game installation that provides a traumatic but transformative experience
Self-Determination: A Global Perspective
Adam Hines-Green discovers connections in a timely exhibition of art from newly independent nations.
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
Exhibition Openings
| Norwich | Outpost at 20 Outpost opens Thu 18 Apr |
| London | LR Vandy October Gallery opens Thu 18 Apr | PV 24 Apr |
| London | Jack Kabangu Beers Contemporary opens Thu 18 Apr | PV 18 Apr |
| London | Xingxin Hu Peter von Kant opens Fri 19 Apr |
| London | The Darling of Reflection Sid Motion Gallery opens Fri 19 Apr |
| Bruton | Kathryn Maple Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens Fri 19 Apr |
| Halesworth | Richard Pinckney The Cut opens Sat 20 Apr |
| Colchester | Concrete Dreams: Just Can't Get Enough Firstsite opens Sat 20 Apr |
| Leigh | Jeanette Orrell, Leonard Green The Turnpike opens Sat 20 Apr |
| Blackpool | Ra Walden Grundy Art Gallery opens Sat 20 Apr |
Recent Podcasts
11-Mar-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Laura Harris & Morgan Quaintance
Presented by Matt Hale
Laura Harris claims that the Levelling Up programme is a sham and Morgan Quaintance argues that Chris Ofili’s ‘Requiem’ for the victims of Grenfell Tower was compromised from the start.
12-Feb-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Sarah E James, Jumana Manna & Larissa Sansour
Presented by Chris McCormack
Sarah E James discusses her article on cultural censorship and exclusion of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in the arts and beyond, with the artists Jumana Manna and Larissa Sansour.
11-Dec-23
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Michael Hampton
Presented by Matt Hale
Michael Hampton argues that auto-destruction is the default condition of all visual art.
From the Back Catalogue
Mother and Child Divided
Jennifer Thatcher on women in the arts
Steve McQueen: Grenfell
Elisabetta Fabrizi experiences film installation as an act of remembrance
Jumana Manna
Emilia Terracciano profiles the Palestinian artist and filmmaker
Unreliable Evidence
Francis Frascina on countering histories
The Look of War
Julian Stallabrass examines political and corporate interests in relation to images of war
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 critically examines a lesbian relation to histories of the land and landscape cinema
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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