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Lauren Halsey: emajendat

Martin Herbert is urged to free his mind

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Middlesbrough Art Week

Tom Jeffreys reports on an exemplary critical art festival that supports communities of artists at the grassroots level

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Why Surrealism Matters • The medium of Leonora Carrington

Anna Dezeuze argues that Surrealism’s unfettered individual creativity is increasingly vital in an age when alternative worlds are disappearing and imagination is outsourced to machines

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Speculative Libraries

Nick Thurston on libraries as artworks

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Soumya Sankar Bose: Braiding Dusk and Dawn

Vaishna Surjid is shaken by the artist’s inquiry into his mother’s mysterious three-year disappearance, aged nine, during political crises in West Bengal

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Pissed Off

Henry Broome on homelessness, sanitation and public art

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE REBIRTHING ROOM

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on a video-game installation that provides a traumatic but transformative experience

Art Monthly 473

Self-Determination: A Global Perspective

Adam Hines-Green discovers connections in a timely exhibition of art from newly independent nations.

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Radical Jewishness

Caspar Heinemann argues that curators have downplayed politics in Nicole Eisenman’s Whitechapel Gallery show

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Ali Cherri

Maria Walsh on the Lebanese artist‘s use of dreamlike visions to negotiate conflict

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Open City Documentary Festival 2023: The Art of Non-Fiction

Alex Fletcher reports on the contested role of subjectivity in recent documentary filmmaking

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Naomi Pearce: Innominate

Jonathan P Watts on the forensic feminist methodology at the heart of an artist studio mystery novel

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Artists in a Time of War

Max L Feldman finds that this historical survey exhibition is nevertheless most focused on current events in Ukraine and Afghanistan

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Outer Spaces

Greg Thomas reports on the rise of short-let artist-run spaces in Edinburgh city centre

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Frida Orupabo

Phoebe Cripps on the Norwegian artist’s use of historical archives to return an unsettling colonial gaze

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A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s

Eddie Chambers argues that the contributions of regional public galleries in the 1980s raises questions about their impact today

Art Monthly 463

Class Issues: Art Production In and Out of Precarity

Martin Herbert encounters an all-too-rare exhibition exploring the issue of classism

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Roy Claire Potter: Land Lay Moldbrest • David Steans: Mummy Hood Nesting Forest

Jamie Sutcliffe is consumed by two new net art commissions that explore landscape horror through hypertext

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The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900

Richard A Kaye encounters the magic of the double in this inspired exhibition

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Array Collective: The Druthaib’s Ball

Joanne Laws decodes the Irish symbolism in Array’s anti-imperialist artwork

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Letter from the Hamptons

Daniel Neofetou on an East Coast culture clash

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Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter • Tangled Hierarchy

Adam Heardman on Jitish Kallat’s installation and curated exhibition confronting colonialism

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59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams

Chris Clarke finds a parallel timeline revealed

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Radio Ballads

Maria Walsh encounters socially engaged artworks in an east London council office and a west London royal park.

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Every Ocean Hughes: One Big Bag

Lucia Farinati discovers the importance of death doulas

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Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded

Olivia Aherne feels the discomfort in Andrea Fraser’s confrontational anti-racism video installation

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Learning to Unlearn

Greg Thomas reports on the Ignorant Art School series of exhibitions

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Crip Time

Martin Herbert is challenged by MMK Frankfurt’s ambitious exhibition of disability-related art

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Letter from Naples

Mark Sladen encounters a chilling new film in a city where edgy art has long been welcome

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Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus

Martin Herbert stalks through a chilling alternative sci-fi realm that is nevertheless eerily familiar

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Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Palace

Adam Heardman witnesses an encounter between relational aesthetics and rarefied pomp

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Leah Capaldi: Big Slit

Cherry Smyth finds herself alive in the livefeed

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Mental Health and Art

Tim Steer on art projects that reveal the sociopolitical roots of mental-health issues

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High Streets for All?

Matthew Noel-Tod on the instrumentalisation of artists by property developers in a time of crisis

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Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Chloe Carroll shows that the artist’s background in architecture enables her to interrogate the identarian influence of cultural spaces

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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

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Dan Hicks: The Brutish Museums

George Vasey on the argument that museums must care for people more than objects

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Lottery Lives

Current art-funding schemes, despite their meritocratic veneer, remain incurably unjust. It is time, says Michaële Cutaya, for a radical shake-up.

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Park McArthur: Kunsthalle_guests Gaeste.Netz.5456

Mitchell Anderson on embodiment in the US artist’s audio tour of the gallery space

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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’

Art Monthly 440

Matt Wolf: Spaceship Earth

Lin Er-Ying on the lessons to be learned from this cautionary tale of Biosphere 2, the spectacular but doomed 1980s ecological experiment

Art Monthly 439

Online Round-up

Lauren Velvick on the variety of approaches, from browser plug-ins to web interruptions, that artists and organisations are using to present art online

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Shanzhai Lyric

Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe on the way the New York duo’s work charts the flows of capital that shape our world

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Michael Hanna

Maeve Connolly examines the artist‘s interest in time travel, everyday language, patterns and technological utopianism

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How to Make Art in a Pandemic?

Khairani Barokka considers ableism in art in the light of the Covid-19 lockdown

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Steve McQueen

Adam Hines-Green finds that the Oscar-winning artist is liberated by the limitations of video

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Reflections on Education from the Frontlines

Royal College of Art lecturers challenge the business-first approach of British universities and their art departments

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Sophie Cundale

Kathryn Lloyd examines the London-based artist’s new work, which takes on Greek mythology, cinema and the world of boxing to address long-term concerns about loss and trauma.

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Alex Margo Arden and Caspar Heinemann: The farmyard …

Larne Abse Gogarty finds this exhibition and two-act play to be an antidote to today’s cruel and crass political landscape.

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The Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh

Amna Malik explores Void Project’s thoughtful feminisation of contested representations of masculinity through the work of the late Palestinian filmmaker.

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Imran Perretta

George Vasey discusses the coercive role of images and hidden racial, social and economic biases of photographic and other technologies, as revealed in the work of the London-based artist.

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Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson: Here For Life

Hettie Judah reviews a collaborative film that follows the lives of Londoners as their city changes around them

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Carolyn Lazard

Giulia Smith discusses the Philadelphia-based artist’s political agenda, which centres on changing the institutional treatment of disability rather than merely representing it

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Richard Grayson: Possessions_inc.

Jamie Sutcliffe navigates the vortex of superstition and techno-consipiracy in Richard Grayson’s online video series

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Letter from Zurich

Aoife Rosenmeyer is peeved by the art market’s framing of older female artists as Cinderellas waiting gratefully to be discovered

Art Monthly 426

Call & Response

Morgan Quaintance takes issue with the political claims made in Stephanie Bailey’s article ‘Athens: Future Past’ and Stephanie Bailey responds

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Harry Meadley: But what if we tried?

Tom Emery finds out what happens when a public gallery attempts to exhibit every artwork in its collection at once

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Letter from Houston

Astrid Korporaal finds a pioneering spirit full of hope for positive change in a city with a surprisingly rich art heritage

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Meiro Koizumi: Battlelands

Amy Luo reviews the Japanese artist’s collaboration with US military veterans

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Bow Gamelan Ensemble: Great Noises that Fill the Air

Morgan Quaintance enjoys the artist sound collective as an enthralling reminder of the experimental alternative to cultural conservatism

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Letter from Kampala

George Vasey reports on the Ugandan capital’s energetic but under-resourced art scene

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Letter from Korea: One Step at a Time

Chris McCormack reports on the Gwangju and Busan biennales at a tentatively hopeful time in Korean politics

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Private Museums

Aoife Rosenmeyer on the current boom in private art institutions

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Oberhausen: Leaving the Cinema

Adam Pugh uses the 64th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival to show that cinema is essential today, it being one of the few remaining social structures to enable public assembly

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Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games

Stephanie Schwartz reviews the two-artist show at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel

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Art Investigation

Daniel Neofetou argues that Forensic Architecture’s success in the art world is symptomatic of a broader demotion of art’s capacity for political opposition

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Forensic Architecture: Counter Investigations

Maria Walsh reviews the group’s ICA exhibition

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School: A Recent History of Self-Organised Art Education

Lauren Houlton reviews Sam Thorne’s survey of independent art schools

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Andreas Gursky

Martin Herbert reviews the German photographer’s Hayward Gallery retrospective

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Letter from Cairo: The Way Back

Maxa Zoller on Egypt’s post-revolution art scene

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Terre Thaemlitz

The Minnesota-born, Kawasaki-based artist, writer, DJ and composer explores gender and systolic systems, and argues against reconciliation

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What is Happening?

Laure Genillard asks why won’t more galleries voice the fact that art fairs are rapidly eroding their viability

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