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Recent Articles
Leah Capaldi: Big Slit
Cherry Smyth finds herself alive in the livefeed
Mental Health and Art
Tim Steer on art projects that reveal the sociopolitical roots of mental-health issues
High Streets for All?
Matthew Noel-Tod on the instrumentalisation of artists by property developers in a time of crisis
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Chloe Carroll shows that the artist’s background in architecture enables her to interrogate the identarian influence of cultural spaces
Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience
Francis Frascina discovers the limits of this collection of essays focused on art that nurtures change
Exhibition Openings
| Edinburgh | Frank Walter Ingleby Gallery opens Thu 29 Jul |
| Edinburgh | Isaac Julien Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens Thu 29 Jul |
| Edinburgh | Sekai Machache Stills opens Thu 29 Jul |
| Edinburgh | Thomas Joshua Cooper Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens Sat 31 Jul |
| Southampton | Hetain Patel John Hansard Gallery opens Tue 3 Aug |
Recent Podcasts
14-Jun-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
John Smith
Presented by Alexandra Hull
Artist John Smith discusses his pandemic-era video works ‘Citadel’ and ‘Covid Messages’ with writer Alexandra Hull.
10-May-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Tom Denman
Presented by Matt Hale
Tom Denman argues that further colonial and racial violences are at play in the institutional framing of so-called post-race and post-black discourses in the US and the UK.
12-Apr-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan
Presented by Chris McCormack
Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan on the use of advertising space by artists, the ‘Framework for Resilience’ discussion at Fact and ART CLUB2000 at Artists Space.
From the Back Catalogue
Art v the Law
Colin Perry discusses protest art that uses the law as an artistic medium
Expanding the Curriculum
Ranjana Thapalyal calls for interdisciplinary art teaching to decolonise the curriculum
To Boycott or Not to Boycott?
Dave Beech asks the question
Inside Out
Dave Beech on the fall of public art
Eddie Chambers: Things Done Change
Richard Hylton on Eddie Chambers’s challenge to art institutions and their treatment of black British artists
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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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.
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Runners-up
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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