| London | Beatriz González Barbican opens Wed 25 Feb |
| Colchester | Sam Gimson The Minories Galleries opens Wed 25 Feb | PV 28 Feb |
| London | Pattern as Language APT Gallery opens Thu 26 Feb |
| Manchester | Stephen Sutcliffe Moon Grove opens Fri 27 Feb | PV 26 Feb |
| London | LA Timpa Cell Project Space opens Fri 27 Feb | PV 26 Feb |
| London | Myriam Mihindou Phillida Reid opens Fri 27 Feb |
| London | Jatinder Singh Durhailay Purdy Hicks opens Fri 27 Feb |
| London | Rose Wylie Royal Academy of Arts opens Sat 28 Feb |
| Bristol | Mounira Al Solh Arnolfini opens Sat 28 Feb |
| London | Runes Thames-Side Studios Gallery opens Sat 28 Feb |
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Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience.
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Chris Clarke on Austria’s steirischer herbst festival; Tosia Leniarska reports from the Survival Kit festival in Latvia; Virginia Whiles discusses the pairing of Mona Hatoum and Alberto Giacometti’s work at the Barbican.
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Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world.
Erika Balsom discovers spaces where resistant bodies are welcome
Vaishna Surjid on a doomsday performance that nevertheless suggests ways forward
Larne Abse Gogarty discovers a pointed layering of references in the American painter’s retrospective
Izabella Scott claims the US is obsessed yet in denial about the concept of empire
Mark Hutchinson argues that new approaches to curating aestheticise politics
Stephanie Schwartz questions the utopian potential of digital photography
Art Monthly celebrates its 50th anniversary and 500th issue in October 2026. Henry Lydiate marks the magazine’s 50th year by reviewing his Artlaw column since its first publication in 1976. Throughout 2026, one broad subject is explored each month, noting significant events and issues, and commenting on key changes and developments to date.
Henry Lydiate on the development of Artlaw over the past half century
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.
Ricardo Reverón Blanco on a Cuban filmmaker suppressed both at home and abroad
Emily Morley examines a new mode of distributed filmmaking
Oliver Dixon revisits the work of experimental documentary filmmakers
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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