50 Articles for 50 Years

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 in Art Monthly

• Robert Radford, ‘When politics and art seemed to coalesce’, AM20
• Barbara Pollack, ‘Babe Power’, AM235
• Rasheed Araeen, ‘Inverted Racism?’, AM306
• Chris McCormack, ‘Love AIDS Riots’, AM423
• Morgan Quaintance, ‘Class Distinction’, AM487

50 years of sculpture in Art Monthly

• Glynn Williams, ‘Defining Sculpture’, AM29
• Deanna Petherbridge, ‘Sculpture up front: a look at sculptural commissions’, AM43
• Michael Archer, ‘Just Judd’, AM184
• Mark Prince, ‘On Sculpture’, AM282
• Colin Perry, ‘Earth Matters’, AM467

50 years of hating painting in Art Monthly

• Marcus Reith-Roberts, ‘A Note on Narrative Painting’, AM38
• John Roberts, ‘Fetishism, Conceptualism, Painting’, AM82
• Simon Morley, ‘Unbound Possibilities in Painting’, AM175
• Andrew Wilson, ‘Belleville or Manhattan?’, AM260
• Larne Abse Gogarty, ‘Figuring Figuration’, AM465

50 years of British art in Art Monthly

• Peter Fuller, ‘The Crisis in British Art’, AM8
• Anthony Barnett, ‘The Art of Being British’, AM104
• David Barrett, ‘No Damien No Gary No Tracey’, AM219
• Kathy Battista, ‘Performing Feminism’, AM343
• Melanie Pocock, ‘English, Singlish, Globlish?’, AM439

50 years of museums in Art Monthly

• Ralph Rumney, ‘Pompidou’s multi-coloured dream machine’, AM4
• Sarah Wilson, ‘The Exploded Museum’, AM167
• Patricia Bickers, ‘The Curator Also Rises’, AM238
• Jennifer Thatcher, ‘Extreme Gallery Makeover’, AM339
• Andrew Hunt, ‘Midnight at the Museum’, AM420

50 years of Modernism in Art Monthly

• David-Henry Kahnweiler, ‘Growing Up With the Cubists’, AM16
• Benjamin Buchloh, ‘Westkunst – Modernism’s Restkunst?’, AM50
• Alison Green, ‘Utopias & Universals’, AM265
• Christopher Townsend, ‘Product Placement’, AM332
• Tom Denman, ‘The Limits of Subjectivity’, AM441

50 years of art critics in Art Monthly

• Richard Cork, ‘The critic as intervener’, AM14
• Dave Beech, ‘Encountering Art’, AM336
• Sally O’Reilly, ‘On Criticism’, AM296
• Gilda Williams, ‘Write On’, AM384
• Maria Walsh, ‘Critique Fatigue’, AM400

50 years of feminism in Art Monthly

• Rozsika Parker, ‘Feminist Art Practices’, AM43
• Margaret Garlake, ‘Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party’, AM85
• Griselda Pollock, ‘Difference: Women/Art/History’, AM113
• John Roberts, ‘Male Order’, AM121
• Joan Key, ‘Daughter-artists’, AM307

50 years of labour in Art Monthly

• Michael Wilson, ‘Loop’, AM253
• Larne Abse Gogarty, ‘Dark Matter’, AM344
• Dave Beech, ‘Artist/Worker/Misfit’, AM408
• Tim Steer, ‘Mental Health and Art’, AM447
• Michael Kurtz, ‘Negative Freedom’, AM486

50 years of Artlaw in Art Monthly

• Henry Lydiate, ‘Is there Life after Art School?’, AM56
• Henry Lydiate, ‘Copyright and Moral Rights: New Legislation’, AM128
• Henry Lydiate, ‘Editions or Series: Artists Be Clear’, AM281
• Henry Lydiate, ‘Catch-22 Inheritance Tax’, AM360
• Henry Lydiate, ‘It Was Twenty Years Ago…’, AM493