Aberystwyth | Anthony Shapland Aberystwyth Arts Centre opens Tue 1 Apr |
London | Giuseppe Penone Serpentine Gallery opens Thu 3 Apr |
London | Wura-Natasha Ogunji Tiwani Contemporary opens Thu 3 Apr |
Leeds | Roger Ackling, Sarah Casey The Henry Moore Institute opens Fri 4 Apr |
Liverpool | Rowena Harris, Joanne Masding The Bluecoat opens Fri 4 Apr |
London | Kentaro Okumura Vardaxoglou opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 4 Apr |
London | Oliver Lee Jackson Lisson Gallery opens Fri 4 Apr |
London | Tunga Lisson Gallery Lisson st opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr |
London | Pierre Knop Pilar Corrias Conduit St opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr |
London | Songs before Sunrise Sprüth Magers opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr |
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Jamie Sutcliffe discusses artists’ tabletop role-playing games. Hosted by Matt Hale.
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Erika Balsom on John Smith’s latest film ‘Being John Smith’, Ben Burbridge on rave culture as an unfulfilled promise for a new politics of the left and Dan Kidner reviews the Deep Time festival at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh.
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Mark Prince discusses postwar US modernist abstraction as a form of cultural protectionism.
Maria Walsh surrenders to an experimental film that explores the idea of an ‘autistic camera’
Chris Townsend reports from Texas on the Myth of the West at a time when California is beset by wildfires
Rachel Pronger discovers how the IDFA attempted to recover from the previous year’s calamitous festival
Michaële Cutaya on the politics of plants
Adam Heardman looks beyond the spectacle of high-tech immersive art experiences
Oreet Ashery interviewed by Larne Abse Gogarty
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.
Bami Oke examines Garrett Bradley’s embodied video reflection on US culture
E De Zulueta explores the delirious resistance of Mexican filmmakers Colectivo los ingrávidos
Nevan Spier views Palestine through the films of Mustafa Abu Ali and Elia Suleiman
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
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
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