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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
Dan Hicks: The Brutish Museums
George Vasey on the argument that museums must care for people more than objects
Lottery Lives
Current art-funding schemes, despite their meritocratic veneer, remain incurably unjust. It is time, says Michaële Cutaya, for a radical shake-up.
Park McArthur: Kunsthalle_guests Gaeste.Netz.5456
Mitchell Anderson on embodiment in the US artist’s audio tour of the gallery space
Anti-Anti-Semitism or the ‘Alt-Right’?
Following the controversial special issue of leftist art magazine Texte zur Kunst, Sarah E James asks what happens when anti-anti-Semitism meets the ‘alt-right’
Exhibition Openings
Recent Podcasts
8-Feb-21
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz & Conal McStravick
Presented by Chris McCormack
Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz and Conal McStravick on art-world manoeuvres over the past decade, photography books by David Levi Strauss and Jörg Colberg, and the work of Scottish artist Jamie Crewe.
14-Dec-20
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington
Presented by Mark William Lewis
Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington on the ever-widening gap in the UK art world between social, cultural and political realities; artists’ responses to the US’s denial of its colonial history; and the recent work of Irish artist Eimear Walshe.
9-Nov-20
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Tom Denman & Sophie J Williamson
Presented by Matt Hale
Tom Denman and Sophie J Williamson discuss artists who counteract paradigms of racial representation, and also those who reveal unspoken taboos in art through the intimacy of being with someone dying.
From the Back Catalogue
Eddie Chambers: Things Done Change
Richard Hylton on Eddie Chambers’s challenge to art institutions and their treatment of black British artists
Fascinating Fascism?
Barbara Pollack finds she is still not ready to forgive and forget for art’s sake
America Rising
So much expected so little delivered – Michael Corris on post 9/11 art from the USA
Black Art UK/US
Richard Hylton discusses the rise in thematic shows of black artists
Wall of Silence
Anna Dezeuze on art and the climate of censorship that bedevils relations between the US, Israel and the Palestinians
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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