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Contemporary art magazine based in London; follow for the latest artist interviews, news, reviews and more.
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“Leah Clements’s commitment to access is pronounced in her use of alt (or alternative) text – the verbal description of images that assists the visually or aurally impaired – in which she is one of contemporary art’s most innovative practitioners.”
February 18, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“Leah Clements’s commitment to access is pronounced in her use of alt (or alternative) text – the verbal description of images that assists the visually or aurally impaired – in which she is one of contemporary art’s most innovative practitioners.”
“The politics of imagining the US’s downfall has always been inconclusive; even as it is obliterated, these visions continue to place America centre stage. Dreams of the centre falling, after all, confirm where the centre of the world is, investing it with power even as it symbolically collapses.”
February 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
“The politics of imagining the US’s downfall has always been inconclusive; even as it is obliterated, these visions continue to place America centre stage. Dreams of the centre falling, after all, confirm where the centre of the world is, investing it with power even as it symbolically collapses.”
“Performance art had an important role in defying Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship because of its ability to sidestep censorship, and as such it features significantly in the country’s collective memory of the period.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
“Performance art had an important role in defying Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship because of its ability to sidestep censorship, and as such it features significantly in the country’s collective memory of the period.”
“It is not the cultivated slowness of wellness culture, nor a radical rest of liberation. It is something more inert, and perhaps more dangerous to capitalism’s sensibility: rest without promise. I am not accruing value; I am not ‘becoming’.”
February 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
“It is not the cultivated slowness of wellness culture, nor a radical rest of liberation. It is something more inert, and perhaps more dangerous to capitalism’s sensibility: rest without promise. I am not accruing value; I am not ‘becoming’.”
“If you are out in the world and you’re not living on the internet, then you’re constantly being fed with the random and the infinite variety of the world, you are being given opportunities by what you observe. You’re given a vision. What are you gonna do with it?”
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
“If you are out in the world and you’re not living on the internet, then you’re constantly being fed with the random and the infinite variety of the world, you are being given opportunities by what you observe. You’re given a vision. What are you gonna do with it?”
February art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:
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[image: Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon, 2024, screening, 2pm Sun 1 Feb, Chapter, Cardiff]
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[image: Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon, 2024, screening, 2pm Sun 1 Feb, Chapter, Cardiff]
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January 30, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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[image: Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon, 2024, screening, 2pm Sun 1 Feb, Chapter, Cardiff]
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[image: Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon, 2024, screening, 2pm Sun 1 Feb, Chapter, Cardiff]
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Art Monthly, Issue 493, February 2026
• Christina Mackie – interviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
• Sick at Art – Sophie J Williamson
• Art and Contested Memory – Bob Dickinson
• Leah Clements – Tom Denman
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: El Morgan, ‘Have you had a productive day?’, 2023]
• Christina Mackie – interviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
• Sick at Art – Sophie J Williamson
• Art and Contested Memory – Bob Dickinson
• Leah Clements – Tom Denman
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: El Morgan, ‘Have you had a productive day?’, 2023]
January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Art Monthly, Issue 493, February 2026
• Christina Mackie – interviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
• Sick at Art – Sophie J Williamson
• Art and Contested Memory – Bob Dickinson
• Leah Clements – Tom Denman
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: El Morgan, ‘Have you had a productive day?’, 2023]
• Christina Mackie – interviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak
• Sick at Art – Sophie J Williamson
• Art and Contested Memory – Bob Dickinson
• Leah Clements – Tom Denman
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: El Morgan, ‘Have you had a productive day?’, 2023]
“The curator talks about moving beyond apocalyptic thinking, yet by declaring every contemporary ill somehow ‘fascist’, this exhibition falls into that very trap. Given the dire straits to which current politics has brought the world, art-induced apathy is another indulgence we cannot afford.”
January 21, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“The curator talks about moving beyond apocalyptic thinking, yet by declaring every contemporary ill somehow ‘fascist’, this exhibition falls into that very trap. Given the dire straits to which current politics has brought the world, art-induced apathy is another indulgence we cannot afford.”
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I have a review of Keith Sawyer’s fascinating book Learning To See in the Dec/Jan issue of @artmonthly.bsky.social magazine. And this prompted me to think of the key books on learning and teaching that I am always recommending to staff at Norwich University of the Arts. #CreativeEducation
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I have a review of Keith Sawyer’s fascinating book Learning To See in the Dec/Jan issue of @artmonthly.bsky.social magazine. And this prompted me to think of the key books on learning and teaching that I am always recommending to staff at Norwich University of the Arts. #CreativeEducation
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December 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎨 Publishing since 1976, @artmonthly.bsky.social is the UK’s leading magazine of contemporary visual art, with in-depth features, interviews, and coverage of major trends by independent critics.
👀 Browse the complete Art Monthly archive on Exact Editions.
👀 Browse the complete Art Monthly archive on Exact Editions.
“The film’s main protagonist is based on Al-Muqanna (The Veiled One), an 8th‑century mystic and revolutionary in southern Central Asia, who challenged authoritarian centralised power, land‑extraction and religious repression, all pressing global social issues to this day.”
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“The film’s main protagonist is based on Al-Muqanna (The Veiled One), an 8th‑century mystic and revolutionary in southern Central Asia, who challenged authoritarian centralised power, land‑extraction and religious repression, all pressing global social issues to this day.”
January art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:
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[image: Frederick Wiseman, ‘Public Housing’, 1997, screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan]
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[image: Frederick Wiseman, ‘Public Housing’, 1997, screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan]
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January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
January art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:
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[image: Frederick Wiseman, ‘Public Housing’, 1997, screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan]
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[image: Frederick Wiseman, ‘Public Housing’, 1997, screening at the ICA, London, 7.50pm 15 Jan]
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“For a politicised faction of Conceptual Art, the curator was the enemy: a bureaucratic manager complicit in the process of the institutionalisation, normalisation and recuperation of artistic production; someone whose job was to come between art and its projected community.”
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“For a politicised faction of Conceptual Art, the curator was the enemy: a bureaucratic manager complicit in the process of the institutionalisation, normalisation and recuperation of artistic production; someone whose job was to come between art and its projected community.”
“There is seemingly no contradiction between the museum which, on the one hand, proudly declares its progressive agenda while, on the other, furloughs its workers, curtails hours and trims wages.”
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
“There is seemingly no contradiction between the museum which, on the one hand, proudly declares its progressive agenda while, on the other, furloughs its workers, curtails hours and trims wages.”
“Alain Corbin traced the ways that stench was perceived and analysed in late-18th-century France, in contrast to the emphasis on deodorisation under modernity where the realities of foul odours are hidden and repressed in the denial of abjection.”
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Alain Corbin traced the ways that stench was perceived and analysed in late-18th-century France, in contrast to the emphasis on deodorisation under modernity where the realities of foul odours are hidden and repressed in the denial of abjection.”
“The young central character, Moon, she is on a kind of journey to understand the world and to figure out how to move forward which, to my mind, is like a gradual letting go of everything that’s known.”
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“The young central character, Moon, she is on a kind of journey to understand the world and to figure out how to move forward which, to my mind, is like a gradual letting go of everything that’s known.”
Art Monthly, Issue 492, Dec–Jan 2025–26
• Ben Rivers – interviewed by María Palacios Cruz
• Creating a Stink – Francis Frascina
• Who Cares? – Chris Clarke
• Saodat Ismailova – Profile by Maria Walsh
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: Ben Rivers, ‘Mare’s Nest’, 2025]
• Ben Rivers – interviewed by María Palacios Cruz
• Creating a Stink – Francis Frascina
• Who Cares? – Chris Clarke
• Saodat Ismailova – Profile by Maria Walsh
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: Ben Rivers, ‘Mare’s Nest’, 2025]
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Art Monthly, Issue 492, Dec–Jan 2025–26
• Ben Rivers – interviewed by María Palacios Cruz
• Creating a Stink – Francis Frascina
• Who Cares? – Chris Clarke
• Saodat Ismailova – Profile by Maria Walsh
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: Ben Rivers, ‘Mare’s Nest’, 2025]
• Ben Rivers – interviewed by María Palacios Cruz
• Creating a Stink – Francis Frascina
• Who Cares? – Chris Clarke
• Saodat Ismailova – Profile by Maria Walsh
+ news, views, reviews and more…
[cover: Ben Rivers, ‘Mare’s Nest’, 2025]
“The issue of access to technology aside, has the emergence and subsequent fetishisation of digital photography effaced the very claims of realism upon which the promise of the photograph’s revolutionary potential was based?”
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“The issue of access to technology aside, has the emergence and subsequent fetishisation of digital photography effaced the very claims of realism upon which the promise of the photograph’s revolutionary potential was based?”
“The paradox reflects photography’s conflicted role in a mediated world – rife with image manipulation – as both the medium that most effectively dissembles its form in order to simply attest, and the one most likely to deceive with its evidential appearance.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“The paradox reflects photography’s conflicted role in a mediated world – rife with image manipulation – as both the medium that most effectively dissembles its form in order to simply attest, and the one most likely to deceive with its evidential appearance.”
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“The question is, how can the therapeutic gaze be harnessed to upset the top-down, objectifying dynamic we might associate with medical practice, including the wider neoliberalist framework of arts in health advocacy?”
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“The question is, how can the therapeutic gaze be harnessed to upset the top-down, objectifying dynamic we might associate with medical practice, including the wider neoliberalist framework of arts in health advocacy?”
“Nnena Kalu’s nomination for this year’s Turner Prize raises important questions about ethics, interpretation and responsibility, and invites broader reflection on how representation is negotiated.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“Nnena Kalu’s nomination for this year’s Turner Prize raises important questions about ethics, interpretation and responsibility, and invites broader reflection on how representation is negotiated.”
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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“Let’s take a wider perspective and assert that all art by default creates a crack in consensus reality, that on one level or another all art is visionary, all art is political, all art is mystical, all art is about identity, all art is holographic and so on.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Let’s take a wider perspective and assert that all art by default creates a crack in consensus reality, that on one level or another all art is visionary, all art is political, all art is mystical, all art is about identity, all art is holographic and so on.”
November art jobs, grants and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:
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[image: Heather Ageypong, ‘Can you hear that?...No..Right!’, 2025, in conversation, 7pm 12 Nov, New Art Exchange, Nottingham]
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[image: Heather Ageypong, ‘Can you hear that?...No..Right!’, 2025, in conversation, 7pm 12 Nov, New Art Exchange, Nottingham]
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November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
November art jobs, grants and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:
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[image: Heather Ageypong, ‘Can you hear that?...No..Right!’, 2025, in conversation, 7pm 12 Nov, New Art Exchange, Nottingham]
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[image: Heather Ageypong, ‘Can you hear that?...No..Right!’, 2025, in conversation, 7pm 12 Nov, New Art Exchange, Nottingham]
#artjobs