Fifty for Fifty
Fifty years from the back catalogue
To celebrate 50 years and 500 issues, Art Monthly has made a themed selection of 50 articles – from the first year to the present – free to read until the end of 2026.
50 years of protest
50 years of sculpture
50 years of hating painting
50 years of British art
50 years of museums
50 years of Modernism
50 years of art critics
50 years of feminism
50 years of labour
50 years of Artlaw
Exhibition Openings
| London | Antony Gormley Cristea Roberts Gallery opens Wed 14 Oct |
| London | William Crozier Flowers Central opens Wed 14 Oct |
| London | Marcel Broodthaers, Agnieszka Kurant Belmacz Gallery opens Wed 14 Oct |
| London | William Eggleston, Sanlé Sory, Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers The Photographers’ Gallery opens Wed 14 Oct |
| London | Omar Fakhoury Purdy Hicks opens Thu 15 Oct |
| London | Sturtevant Raven Row opens Thu 15 Oct |
| London | Yinka Shonibare, Thomas Gainsborough The National Gallery opens Thu 15 Oct |
| London | Koestler Arts: Rock, Paper, Scissors Hayward Gallery opens Fri 16 Oct |
| London | Celeste Rapone Josh Lilley Gallery opens Fri 16 Oct |
| London | Marcin Dudek Edel Assanti opens Fri 16 Oct |
Recent Podcasts
13-Jul-26
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Dan Rees & Bob Dickinson
Hosted by Matt Hale
Dan Rees reflects on issues raised by Sung Tieu’s work for the German Pavilion in Venice; Bob Dickinson argues that it might be time for us to adopt the newly coined term ‘hydrocene’ to describe our age.
8-Jun-26
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Mark Prince
Hosted by Matt Hale
Mark Prince argues that sculptures once-default position as a surrogate for presence has been challenged.
11-May-26
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Sarah E James & Matthew Bowman
Hosted by Matt Hale
Sarah E James explains why political action always falls to individual artists, Matthew Bowman discusses Lucia Pizzani’s exhibition at Focal Point Gallery.
Recent Articles
Ana Mendieta
Bryony White reappraises Ana Mendieta’s influential practice
Colectivo Acciones de Arte: Radical Democracy
Juan José Santos on the activist art collective’s actions under Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship
61st Venice Biennale: In Minor Keys
Chris Clarke encounters a Biennale rocked by conflict and loss
From the Back Catalogue
The Absence of Presence
During a global pandemic, Mark Wilsher revisits the art historical legacy of presence to ask what we are missing
Bread and Circuses
Peter Scott on the mayor, the waterfalls and the art of neoliberalism
Viral Images
Sophie J Williamson on the case of Khaled Mohamed Saeed
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.
Artists and Public Policy
Henry Lydiate on the impact of political decisions on the visual arts
Artists and Money
Henry Lydiate on art and artists’ complex relationship with money
Censorship
Henry Lydiate on the repression of art over the decades
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.
One must have blind faith in ideology
2025 WINNER | Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad
Opensecret
2025 AWARDEE | Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking
Communist Dislocations
2025 AWARDEE | 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
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
Get the Art Monthly Missing Issue now!
Digital Back Catalogue
Every Art Monthly
NEW Every issue of Art Monthly from 1976 to the current issue is now available online.
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Artist Prints
Art Monthly commissions artists to produce prints as gifts for its supporters. These editions – inserted in subscriber copies – are not available elsewhere.
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