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Exhibition Openings

London Aki Sasamoto Studio Voltaire opens Wed 4 Feb
Liverpool Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? Fact opens Fri 6 Feb | PV 5 Feb
London Laisul Hoque The Nunnery Gallery opens Fri 6 Feb
London Jill Tate Seventeen opens Fri 6 Feb
Swansea Penny Hallas Elysium Gallery opens Fri 6 Feb
Barnstaple Artists North Devon: A Vibrant Community Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon opens Sat 7 Feb
Castle Donington Refresh 26 Tarpey Gallery opens Sat 7 Feb | PV 7 Feb
Nottingham Dala Nasser, Shahana Rajani Nottingham Contemporary opens Sat 7 Feb | PV 6 Feb
Wolverhampton Joy Labinjo Wolverhampton Art Gallery opens Sat 7 Feb
Aberdeen Désirée Coral Peacock Visual Arts opens Sat 7 Feb | PV 6 Feb
 

Recent Podcasts

10-Nov-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Mark Prince

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.

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12-Oct-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Chris Clarke, Tosia Leniarska & Virginia Whiles

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.

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8-Sep-25
Talk Show on Resonance FM

Lillian Wilkie & Dave Beech

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.

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Recent Articles

Art Monthly 492

Saidiya Hartman: Minor Music at the End of the World

Vaishna Surjid on a doomsday performance that nevertheless suggests ways forward

Art Monthly 491

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

Larne Abse Gogarty discovers a pointed layering of references in the American painter’s retrospective

Art Monthly 490

Never Again Peace

Chris Clarke encounters an art festival that accepts war is inevitable

 

From the Back Catalogue

Art Monthly 442

Empire, Extinction and Ecstasy

Izabella Scott claims the US is obsessed yet in denial about the concept of empire

Art Monthly 277

The New Curation

Mark Hutchinson argues that new approaches to curating aestheticise politics

Art Monthly 347

Photography as Work

Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography

 

Artlaw Retrospective

Art Monthly celebrates its 50th anniversary and 500th issue in October 2026. Henry Lydiate marks the magazine’s 50th year by reviewing his Artlaw column since its first publication in 1976. Throughout 2026, one broad subject is explored each month, noting significant events and issues, and commenting on key changes and developments to date.

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About Artlaw

Henry Lydiate on the development of Artlaw over the past half century

 

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.

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One must have blind faith in ideology

Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad

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Opensecret

Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking

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Communist Dislocations

Oliver Dixon revisits the work of experimental documentary filmmakers

 

Edinburgh Art Festival x Art Monthly Writer’s Award

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

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

Found: The Missing Issue

Art Monthly Missing Issue cover
Issue 16 from May 1978

Issue 15 was dated March 1978

Where is the issue from April 1978?
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Digital Back Catalogue

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Artist Prints

Artist Prints

Art Monthly commissions artists to produce prints as gifts for its supporters. These editions – inserted in subscriber copies – are not available elsewhere.

 

Publications

Talking Art book

Talking Art 2

Interviews with artists since 2007

 

Talking Art book

Talking Art

Interviews with artists since 1976

 
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