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Art Monthly newsletter

January 2026
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1976–2026  =  50 years of Art Monthly

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Art Monthly Calendar

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Frederick Wiseman, Public Housing, 1997
screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan

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Saidiya Hartman, Minor Music at the End of the World, 2025

From the Current Issue

Saidiya Hartman: Minor Music at the End of the World

Vaishna Surjid on a doomsday performance that nevertheless suggests ways forward

It has always felt hard to pin down Saidiya Hartman. The American academic has long defied genres, troubling archives with her own, much celebrated method of critical fabulation. In this ambitious new multi-media performance, Hartman ask what the end of this world will look like.


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Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade, Support Structure, 2003-04, Chisenhale Gallery, London

From the Back Catalogue

The New Curation

Mark Hutchinson argues that new approaches to curating offer merely the aestheticisation of politics

first published in 2004, now free online

For a politicised faction of Conceptual Art, the curator was the enemy: a bureaucratic manager complicit in the process of the institutionalisation, normalisation and recuperation of artistic production; someone whose job was to come between art and its projected community.

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Art Monthly x Liam Gillick


TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976

To celebrate Art Monthly’s 50th anniversary in 2026, Liam Gillick has produced a cap design to support the magazine’s fundraising campaign.

• 100% cotton

• One-size, adjustable

£39 including UK delivery

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Oreet Ashery’s Piece, 2025, modelled by Onyeka Igwe

Art Monthly x Oreet Ashery


PIECE

To celebrate Art Monthly’s 50th anniversary in 2026, Oreet Ashery has produced a T-shirt to support the magazine’s fundraising campaign.

• Limited edition of 30

• Organic white cotton

• One-size

Introductory price £39 including UK delivery

Each T-shirt is supplied with a separate printed poem signed by the artist, which includes the lines:

Piece by piece
No Justice, No Peace

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Michael O’Pray Award

New writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image


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Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Coffea Arábiga, 1968

2025 Winner

One must have blind faith in ideology
Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad


Additional Awardees

Opensecret
Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking

Communist Dislocations
Oliver Dixon revisits the work of experimental documentary filmmakers

The Michael O’Pray Award is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative in partnership with Art Monthly. The awardees were commissioned on the strength of proposed texts; the winner received £750 and the additional awardees each received £350.

Gallery Maps

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Podcasts

Art Monthly Talk Show

 

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Online

Audio recordings are available in the Events section of the Art Monthly website: www.artmonthly.co.uk/events

  • Nov: Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience. Hosted by Matt Hale.
  • Oct: 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. Hosted by Chris McCormack.
  • Sep: Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world. Hosted by Matt Hale.

 

Opportunities

Jobs

Curator for Research

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop | 8 Jan
edinburghsculpture.org

AV/Gallery Technician

The British Music Experience, Liverpool | 9 Jan
britishmusicexperience.com

Site Manager

Amberley Museum, South East | 9 Jan
amberleymuseum.co.uk

Collections and Exhibitions Registrar

Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage | 11 Jan
ce0351li.webitrent.com

International Project Manager

The Design Museum, London | 11 Jan
careers.designmuseum.org

Touring Exhibition Design and Build Supplier

National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire | 11 Jan
thenma.org.uk

Aldama Scientific Fellow

The National Gallery, London | 12 Jan
ce0838li.webitrent.com

Cataloguer, Wedgwood Collection X3

V&A, Stoke | 12 Jan
vam.current-vacancies.com

Deputy Director (Operations & Executive Function)

NN Contemporary, Northampton | 12 Jan
drive.google.com

Tutors - Visual, Musical and Performing Arts

South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell | 12 Jan
southhillpark.org.uk

Creative Programmer

Rosetta Arts, London | 13 Jan
rosettaarts.org

Experience Development Manager

Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust | 14 Jan
thedockyard.co.uk

Assistant Curator

Wysing Arts Centre, East | 15 Jan
wysingartscentre.submittable.com

Programme and Engagement Manager

Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery | 19 Jan
cornwallmuseum.org

Project Coordinator

London Museum | 19 Jan
jobs.londonmuseum.org.uk

Company Manager

Common Guild, Glasgow | 20 Jan
static1.squarespace.com

Curator & Programme Manager

Chapel Arts Studios, South West | 26 Jan
artsjobs.org.uk

Museum Manager

Sandwich Town Council, East | 30 Jan
sandwichtowncouncil.gov.uk


Residencies/Fellowships

Glenveagh Artists’ Residency

Derek Hill Foundation, Ireland | 11 Jan
artsjobs.org.uk

Artist Residency with St Peter’s School

Wysing Arts Centre, East | 30 Jan
wysingartscentre.submittable.com

WARP Artist Residency Program for Large-Scale Sculptors

WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, New York | 31 Mar
worthlessstudios.org

Photography Dark Room Residency

Worthlessstudios, New York | Rolling
worthlessstudios.typeform.com

Residencies for Artists at Risk

Artists at Risk, International | Rolling
artistsatrisk.org

2025 Artist & Writer Residencies

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts | Rolling
gibraltarpointcentre.ca

Palazzo Monti Residency

Brescia, Italy | Rolling
palazzomonti.org


Competitions/Commissions

Made in the East End Artist Commission

Oxford House, London | 12 Jan
artsjobs.org.uk

Lead Artist Facilitator

Rosetta Arts, London | 12 Jan
rosettaarts.org

30 Artworks in 30 Days Challenge

Artquest | 31 Jan
artquest.org.uk


Scholarships/Grants

Funding for Underrepresented Artists

The Black Heart Foundation, UK Wide | Rolling
blackheartfoundation.org

Black Artists Grant

Creative Debuts | Rolling
creativedebuts.co.uk

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants

Pollock-Krasner Foundation | Rolling
www.pkf.org

National Lottery Project Grants

Arts Council England | Rolling
artscouncil.org.uk

Grant Programme

ARTCRY | Rolling
artcry.co.uk

The Digital Artists Grant

The Moniker Foundation, Creative Debuts | Rolling
avnode.net

Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants

Art Fund | Rolling
artfund.org


Exhibiting

Freelance Curatorial Commission: Ocean Plastics Exhibition

Royal Holloway, University of London | 11 Jan
artsjobs.org.uk

Art Prize and Exhibition 2026

Royal Commonwealth Society, Bath and District Branch | 15 Feb
44ad.net

$5,000 Curatorial Grants

The Lumen Prize 2025, UK Wide | Rolling
lumenprize.com

300 sq/m Gallery Space Available for Free

Mayfair | Rolling
gallery@allartwelcome.com


Courses/Workshops

Weekend Charcoal Portrait Workshop with Noel Murphy

An immersive drawing workshop in the tradition of master portraiture. Taught by established Irish artist Noel Murphy. Sign up for one day or the full weekend. Bookings close: 20th Feb.
Bleur Gallery & Studio, 62-64 Baker St, London | 21-22 Feb
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promoted

Writing Ecologies

Barbican, London | 11 Jan
barbican.org.uk

An Intro to Longform Improv by The Free Association + Chump’s

Turner Contemporary, Margate | 4 Jan - 22 Feb
turnercontemporary.org

Introduction to Photography: Lee Miller

Tate Britain, London | 17 Jan
tate.org.uk

Modernism Around the World: Evening Talk Series

Royal Academy, London | 20 Jan - 24 Feb
royalacademy.org.uk

Course: Explorations in Digital Spaces and Text

The Photographers’ Gallery | 10 Feb - 10 March
thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Making Waves: Half-Term Activities

Tate Liverpool | 14 - 22 Feb
tate.org.uk

Interfaces Monthly

Barbican & The Trampery | Rolling
docs.google.com

Artquest One-to-One

Artquest | Rolling
artquest.org.uk


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