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Speculative Libraries
Nick Thurston on libraries as artworks
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
Pissed Off
Henry Broome on homelessness, sanitation and public art
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE REBIRTHING ROOM
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou on a video-game installation that provides a traumatic but transformative experience
Self-Determination: A Global Perspective
Adam Hines-Green discovers connections in a timely exhibition of art from newly independent nations.
Exhibition Openings
| London | The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998 Barbican opens Sat 5 Oct |
| London | Machine Painting Modern Art opens Sun 6 Oct | PV 6 Oct |
| Margate | Hilary Lloyd Roland Ross opens Sun 6 Oct |
| London | Calling Things That Don’t Have Names Copperfield opens Sun 6 Oct | PV 5 Oct |
| London | George Rouy Hauser & Wirth opens Mon 7 Oct |
| Cheltenham | Simon Packard Hardwick Gallery opens Mon 7 Oct | PV 9 Oct |
| London | Jack Whitten Hauser & Wirth opens Mon 7 Oct | PV 10 Oct |
| London | Jonas Wood Gagosian opens Mon 7 Oct |
| London | Jordan Wolfson Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street opens Mon 7 Oct |
| London | Robert Longo Thaddaeus Ropac opens Tue 8 Oct |
Forthcoming Events
2pm Tue 29-Oct-24
Future Climates
Future Climates Symposium Day 1
Future Climates is a symposium that brings together an international array of artists, writers and curators who directly respond to the climate emergency. The talks attempt to move beyond established forms of activism and ask how artists and cultural practitioners might envision alternative pathways, propose new models and make real-world differences. By focusing on the unique position artists play, these talks aim to test and probe the question of how that change might be manifested.
Over the duration of the series speakers include: Lise Autogena, Fiona Banner, Ajay Singh Chaudary, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Jay Jordan, Amal Khalaf, Maggie Murray, Alona Pardo, John Kenneth Pranada, Filipa Ramos, Oliver Ressler, Jonas Staal, Robert Zaho Renhui
29 October 2024
PANEL 1
14.00 Introduction (Chris McCormack and Uta Kögelsberger)
14.20 Alona Pardo
14.40 Maggie Murray
15.00 In conversation 1 (chair Fiona Anderson/Chris McCormack)
PANEL 2
15.45 Introduction
15.50 Ajay Singh Chaudary
16.10 Jonas Staal
16.30 In conversation 2 (chair Harry Weeks)
PANEL 3
17.30 Introduction
17.35 Fiona Banner
17.55 Filipa Ramos
18.15 Jay Jordan
18.25 In conversation 3 (chair Jo Coupe)
19.00 Drinks
20. 00 Dinner
Free event, open to the public
Fine Art Lecture Theatre, Newcastle University
Recent Podcasts
9-Sep-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Michael Kurtz, Lauren Velvick & Sarah E James
Hosted by Chris McCormack
Michael Kurtz discusses the work of Delcy Morelos; Lauren Velvick on Roy Claire Potter’s ‘The Wastes’; Sarah E James considers exhibition formats that offer more complex models than those put forward in Claire Bishop’s book ‘Disordered Attention’.
8-Jul-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Vaishna Surjid, Amna Malik & Henry Broome
Hosted by Chris McCormack
Vaishna Surjid discusses Soumya Sankar Bose’s exhibition ‘Braiding Dusk and Dawn’ at Deflina Foundation in London; Amna Malik reviews Permindar Kaur’s exhibition ‘Nothing is Fixed’ at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton; and Henry Broome reports on public art in relation to homelessness and sanitation.
10-Jun-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Mark Prince
Hosted by Matt Hale
Mark Prince argues that digitalisation adds another dimension to debates about intention and production in a discussion that covers photography, painting and sculpture and covers artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp and Robert Ryman to Jon Rafman.
From the Back Catalogue
Art and Dyschronia
Bob Dickinson on art that challenges populist governments’ rewriting of the past
The Waiting Game
Marcus Verhagen on the politics and aesthetics of time
Yugonostalgia
Jasmina Tumbas on the pull of nostalgia as both a poison and a cure
The Main Complaint
Psychosexual fixations and neuroses do not respect national or racial boundaries says Eddie Chambers
Fighting Fascism
Sarah Jury argues that art can make a difference
Found: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
Get the Art Monthly Missing Issue now!
Edinburgh Art Festival x Art Monthly Writer’s Award
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
Almanac Prize
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
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.
2023 Winner
Dreaming Rivers
Leena Habiballa considers the physical reworking of a pioneering film’s 16mm print
2023 Commended
Queer Territories/Lesbian Lenses
Aislinn Evans critically examines a lesbian relation to histories of the land and landscape cinema
Excavating the Body
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona explores Ashanti Harris’s Black Gold
2022 Winners
In Defence of the Small Screen
Laura Bivolaru on viewing the moving image while moving
I Am a Photograph
Evelyn Wh-ell examines two French trans icons’ focus on image as surface
2022 Commended
Going on a Bear Hunt
Dan Guthrie tries to imagine the experience of an elusive artwork
Robert Beavers
Siavash Minoukadeh on the power of oblique suggestion in queer cinema
2021 Winner
Out in the Open
Sara Quattrocchi Febles explores how a film can no longer be fixed in time and place when screened outdoors
2021 Commended
Danielle Dean
Rosa Tyhurst on Danielle Dean’s subverting of the vampiric strategies at work in brand marketing
Blank Space
Ronnie Angel Pope enters a cinematic void
2020 Winner
Lutz Mommartz’s Own Private Idyll
Mimi Howard finds that there are oblique ways to engage with tumultuous times
2020 Commended
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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