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“Kaari Upson developed ‘The Larry Project’ after she snuck into the abandoned mansion of her parents’ neighbour, a wanna...
24/09/2025

“Kaari Upson developed ‘The Larry Project’ after she snuck into the abandoned mansion of her parents’ neighbour, a wannabe Hugh Hefner, and discovered a trove of dream journals and photographs detailing his aspirations to a pl***oy mogul lifestyle.”

‘Kaari Upson: Dollhouse’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk – Elizabeth Fullerton

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[image: Kaari Upson, ‘Dollhouse’]

“A counterpoint to Sophie Podolski's jittery monomania, Milly Thompson's oeuvre foregrounds a kind of looseness and lang...
23/09/2025

“A counterpoint to Sophie Podolski's jittery monomania, Milly Thompson's oeuvre foregrounds a kind of looseness and languor: works that pursue pleasure and the fleeting sensations of bliss. Yet in their paean to hedonism, Thompson's works nonetheless offer a feminist edge: that of the viewpoint so often either neglected or mocked of a middle-aged woman.”

‘Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung’ • ‘Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good’, Goldsmiths CCA, London – Daniel Culpan

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[image: Milly Thompson, ‘White wine Lanzarote’, 2015]

“Sir John Soane’s out-of-town house is a particularly distinctive location, and Sahib is well-placed to make an unusuall...
16/09/2025

“Sir John Soane’s out-of-town house is a particularly distinctive location, and Sahib is well-placed to make an unusually localised response to it. Born in 1982, he grew up nearby, and has fed the area into his autobiographically infused work over the past decade.”

‘Permindar Kaur: Mirror, Mirror • Prem Sahib: Doubles’, Pitzhanger Manor, London – Paul Carey-Kent

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[image: Prem Sahib, ‘Apotropaic I’, 2023]

“What is this tableau of wreckage? Recent media images of Gaza's destruction come to mind. So, too, does the devastation...
15/09/2025

“What is this tableau of wreckage? Recent media images of Gaza's destruction come to mind. So, too, does the devastation wrought some two decades ago by Hurricane Katrina, especially to black working-class communities in New Orleans. But Drew makes no reference to these or other political situations in the accompanying video. Instead, he speaks in formal terms.”

‘Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II’, South London Gallery – Andrew Chesher

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[image: Leonardo Drew, ‘Ubiquity II’]

“In Eva Hesse’s work there are certainly body-like forms apparent: aspherical forms ensnared within netted bags in one w...
11/09/2025

“In Eva Hesse’s work there are certainly body-like forms apparent: aspherical forms ensnared within netted bags in one work and the odd couple of a quasi-phallus conjoined with a quasi-testis in another work certainly allude in that direction. Yet this is also a case where caution should be exercised.”

‘Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams’, Courtauld Gallery, London – Matthew Bowman

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[image: Eva Hesse, ‘No Title’, 1966]

“As happens with retrospectives when the artist is deceased, there is now a rush to reframe Rebecca Horn’s work in terms...
10/09/2025

“As happens with retrospectives when the artist is deceased, there is now a rush to reframe Rebecca Horn’s work in terms of contemporary themes, such as q***r sexualities and nonhuman kinships. While Horn did stage interactions between herself and a cockatoo, this studio performance is arguably centred on mimicry rather than alternative models of kinship.”

‘Rebecca Horn: Cutting Through the Past’ – Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Maria Walsh

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[image: Rebecca Horn, 'Cutting Through the Past', installation view]

“The brilliance of Maryam Tafakory’s approach lies in reversing the usual way prohibitions are signposted: she turns the...
09/09/2025

“The brilliance of Maryam Tafakory’s approach lies in reversing the usual way prohibitions are signposted: she turns the gaze towards the film industry’s efforts to keep desire within the frame, and the shifts in image-reading this prompted across Iranian spectatorship.”

Maryam Tafakory – Profile by Luisa Lorenza Corna

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[image: Maryam Tafakory, ‘Razah-del’, 2024]

“Consider the dance marathons of the US’s 1930s depression era, dramatised in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 film ‘They Shoot Hor...
08/09/2025

“Consider the dance marathons of the US’s 1930s depression era, dramatised in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 film ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ If there’s a finer allegory of industrial capitalism’s ruthless demands upon the human, I’m struggling to find it.”

‘Dance Class’ – Chris Townsend celebrates the transgressive power of dance, from the bacchanale to the rave, and laments its repression under late capitalism.

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[image: Mark Leckey, ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’, 1999]

“Downplaying the political narrative has the mysterious effect of pushing the working class as an empirical category int...
04/09/2025

“Downplaying the political narrative has the mysterious effect of pushing the working class as an empirical category into the history of capitalism while denying it a place in contemporary capitalism.”

‘Talking in Class’ – Dave Beech argues that we are still lacking the political will or the theoretical tools to talk about class

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[image: Jo Spence, in collaboration with Terry Dennett, ‘The Highest Product of Capitalism’, 1979]

“One of the things about filming people is that if somebody is doing something that they are consumed by then they will ...
03/09/2025

“One of the things about filming people is that if somebody is doing something that they are consumed by then they will become glorious, otherwise they’re feeling under threat from the camera or what’s being demanded.”

Hilary Lloyd interviewed by Chris McCormack

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[image: Hilary Lloyd, ‘Very High Frequency’, 2025]

September art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and m...
01/09/2025

September art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:

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[image: Felicity Hammond, V3: Model Collapse, 2025, artist talk, 6.30pm 12 Sep, The Photographers’ Gallery, London]

Art Monthly, Issue 489, September 2025• Hilary Lloyd interviewed by Chris McCormack• Talking in Class – Dave Beech• Danc...
29/08/2025

Art Monthly, Issue 489, September 2025

• Hilary Lloyd interviewed by Chris McCormack

• Talking in Class – Dave Beech

• Dance Class – Chris Townsend

• Maryam Tafakory – Profile by Luisa Lorenza Corna

• On Residencies – Maria Fusco

+ news, views, reviews and more…

[cover: Maryam Tafakory, ‘Razeh-del’, 2024]

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