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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

Art Monthly 480

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

Art Monthly 479

Speculative Libraries

Nick Thurston on libraries as artworks

Art Monthly 478

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

Art Monthly 477

Pissed Off

Henry Broome on homelessness, sanitation and public art

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Exhibition Openings

London Forest, Woods and Groves: An Exhibition by The Arborealists Batsford Gallery opens Thu 14 Nov | PV 14 Nov
London Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 National Portrait Gallery opens Thu 14 Nov
London Martyn Cross Hales Gallery opens Fri 15 Nov | PV 15 Nov
London Lenore Tawney, Toshiko Takaezu Alison Jacques opens Fri 15 Nov
Margate Morag Keil, Olga Pedan Roland Ross opens Sat 16 Nov
London Filippo Caramazza Lychee One opens Mon 18 Nov | PV 15 Nov
London Tirzah Garwood Dulwich Picture Gallery opens Tue 19 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.

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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’.

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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.

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From the Back Catalogue

Art Monthly 336

It Was What It Was: Modern Ruins

Gilda Williams on the politics and aesthetics of ruins

Art Monthly 452

Art and Dyschronia

Bob Dickinson on art that challenges populist governments’ rewriting of the past

Art Monthly 410

The Waiting Game

Marcus Verhagen on the politics and aesthetics of time

Art Monthly 425

Yugonostalgia

Jasmina Tumbas on the pull of nostalgia as both a poison and a cure

Art Monthly 227

The Main Complaint

Psychosexual fixations and neuroses do not respect national or racial boundaries says Eddie Chambers

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Found: The Missing Issue

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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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