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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
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
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
Exhibition Openings
| London | William Peers John Martin Gallery opens Wed 6 Nov |
| London |
Keran James studio1.1 opens Thu 7 Nov | PV 7 Nov
With metaphor and illusion, James’s new video/installations offer surface pleasure while placing us in an interim, problematic space. This isn't where we came in. |
| London | In the Thick of Things APT Gallery opens Thu 7 Nov | PV 7 Nov |
| Hove | Heartland and Hinterland The Regency Town House opens Thu 7 Nov |
| London | David Nash Annely Juda Fine Art opens Thu 7 Nov |
| Liverpool | Cosmotechnics Fact opens Fri 8 Nov | PV 7 Nov |
| Nottingham | Kolam Primary opens Fri 8 Nov |
| Dublin | Land Douglas Hyde opens Fri 8 Nov |
| London | The Equal Right to Live and Blossom Kate MacGarry opens Fri 8 Nov |
| London | Linett Kamala Metroland opens Fri 8 Nov | PV 7 Nov |
Recent Podcasts
14-Oct-24
Talk Show on Resonance FM
Bob Dickinson & Tom Denman
Hosted by Matt Hale
Bob Dickinson discusses artists who connect the sleep crisis to the climate crisis, while Tom Denman reviews the ‘Towards New Worlds’ exhibition at MIMA in Middlesbrough.
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.
From the Back Catalogue
It Was What It Was: Modern Ruins
Gilda Williams on the politics and aesthetics of ruins
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
Found: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
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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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