Recent Articles

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

Larne Abse Gogarty discovers a pointed layering of references in the American painter’s retrospective

Never Again Peace

Chris Clarke encounters an art festival that accepts war is inevitable

Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell: Direct Action

Nicholas Gamso finds inherent tensions in this attempt to document radical activism

From the Back Catalogue

The New Curation

Mark Hutchinson argues that new approaches to curating aestheticise politics

Photography as Work

Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography

We Are the Robots

Aoife Rosenmeyer asks how should we coexist with robots and intelligent machines

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.