| Cork | Eilis O’Connell The Glucksman opens Sat 29 Nov |
| Eastbourne | Dana Awartani Towner Gallery opens Sat 29 Nov |
| Leicester | David Blandy, Petra Szemán Two Queens opens Sat 29 Nov |
| Margate | Hayley Tompkins Roland Ross opens Sat 29 Nov |
| London | Sebastian Riemer Gathering opens Thu 4 Dec |
| London | Govinda Sah ‘Azad’ October Gallery opens Thu 4 Dec |
| Sheffield | Gentle Revolts: Members Show Bloc Projects opens Thu 4 Dec | PV 4 Dec |
| London |
Seed_2065 The Handbag Factory opens Fri 5 Dec | PV 4 Dec
What happens when humans step aside and other species thrive? 21 artists imagine hopeful futures rooted in harmony with the more-than-human, while reflecting on our dystopian present. 10.30-17.00. Closing event Monday 15 December 18.00-21.00 |
| London | Juan Uslé Frith Street Gallery Golden Sq opens Fri 5 Dec |
| Sheffield | Unquiet Landscapes Persistence Works opens Fri 5 Dec |
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.
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.
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.
Larne Abse Gogarty discovers a pointed layering of references in the American painter’s retrospective
Chris Clarke encounters an art festival that accepts war is inevitable
Nicholas Gamso finds inherent tensions in this attempt to document radical activism
Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography
Aoife Rosenmeyer asks how should we coexist with robots and intelligent machines
Lizzie Lloyd asks whether an artist needs to describe themselves as socially engaged in order to engage socially
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.
Bami Oke examines Garrett Bradley’s embodied video reflection on US culture
E De Zulueta explores the delirious resistance of Mexican filmmakers Colectivo los ingrávidos
Nevan Spier views Palestine through the films of Mustafa Abu Ali and Elia Suleiman
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
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
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