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“Ultimately, it might be suggested that what matters is not destruction in the public sphere or by the public, but the d...
17/07/2025

“Ultimately, it might be suggested that what matters is not destruction in the public sphere or by the public, but the destruction of the public sphere itself and the social bonds that it can foster.”

From the Back Catalogue: ‘Representing Destruction’ – Matthew Bowman considers the role of archives in recording the destruction of art. First published in 2021, now free online.

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[image: Sam Durant, ‘Paris 1871’, 2018]

“Although there are a number of artists engaging with the legacies of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the UK’s cu...
14/07/2025

“Although there are a number of artists engaging with the legacies of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the UK’s curatorial and institutional interest in the topic is slight, which is alarming to say the least.”

As the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms, Tom Denman wonders why there is deafening silence in the art world.

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[image: Sammy Baloji, ‘Shinkolobwe’s Abstraction’, 2022]

“I was interested in the idea of a finish line or a starting line not being linear and someone having many starts and ma...
07/07/2025

“I was interested in the idea of a finish line or a starting line not being linear and someone having many starts and many finishes, an alternative sense of growth and moving at one’s own pace. Competition stifles relationships and how we engage with each other.”

Ima-Abasi Okon interviewed by Polly Staple

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[image: Ima-Abasi Okon, ‘Incorporeal hereditaments like Love [can] Set(s) You Free, according to Kelly, Case, Dru Hill, Kandice, LovHer, Montel and Playa with 50 - 60g of –D,)e,l,a,y,e,d1;—O,)n,s,e,t2;— ;[heart];M,)u,s,c,l,e3;[heart];—S,)o,r,e,n,e,s,s4;’, 2025]

July art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more i...
03/07/2025

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

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[image: Fergus Carmichael, ‘Rhadinace’, 2024, ‘Selected 15’ screenings, 10am–8pm 5 Jul, CAST, Helston, Cornwall]

Art Monthly, Issue 488, July–August 2025• Ima-Abasi Okon interviewed by Polly Staple• Atomic Legacies – Tom Denman• Art ...
02/07/2025

Art Monthly, Issue 488, July–August 2025

• Ima-Abasi Okon interviewed by Polly Staple

• Atomic Legacies – Tom Denman

• Art in Decline – Morgan Falconer

• Victor Burgin talks to Chris Townsend

• Diamond Stingily – Profile by Amrita Dhallu

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[cover: Myriam Mihindou, ‘Rhizôme’, 1999–2000]

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TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976

“Constructed using traditional Korean sewing techniques, details of door handles, light switches, electrical sockets, sh...
25/06/2025

“Constructed using traditional Korean sewing techniques, details of door handles, light switches, electrical sockets, shower units and other mundane fixtures are drawn in elegant embroidery; memories of specific spaces are complemented by memories of touch.”

‘Do Ho Suh: Walk the House’, Tate Modern, London – Deborah Schultz

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[image: Do Ho Suh, ‘Nest/s’, 2024]

“An unexpected moment arrives in the audio recording when Laura Khan Mitchinson’s monologue along the Thames is interrup...
24/06/2025

“An unexpected moment arrives in the audio recording when Laura Khan Mitchinson’s monologue along the Thames is interrupted by two police officers. We learn that she is recording close to the MI6 headquarters, a ‘protected site’ unfriendly to such uneasily defined artist interventions.”

‘Tris Vonna-Michell: The Art of Clockmaking’, Moon Grove, Manchester – Dylan Huw

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[image: Tris Vonna-Michell, ‘Boxed Matter’, 2024]

“This is where we are: a world in which intellectual enquiry and creative endeavour, usually poorly rewarded, is expropr...
11/06/2025

“This is where we are: a world in which intellectual enquiry and creative endeavour, usually poorly rewarded, is expropriated as raw material through claims of ‘fair use’ for techno-corporatism’s latest profit-enhancing scam. We should hardly be surprised that, having voided itself of labour costs through the automation of physiological processes, late capitalism should attend to reducing those associated with intellectual ones.”

‘The World Through AI’, Jeu de Paume, Paris – Chris Townsend

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[image: Hito Steyerl, ‘Mechanical Kurds’, 2025]

8pm Monday 9 June: Art Monthly Talk Show Morgan Quaintance talks about his feature ‘Class Distinction’, which analyses t...
09/06/2025

8pm Monday 9 June: Art Monthly Talk Show

Morgan Quaintance talks about his feature ‘Class Distinction’, which analyses the absence of discussion of working-class lives in the arts, and the cultural influence of the middle class in how such lives are understood.

Presented by Chris McCormack

https://resonancefm.com

[image: Jasleen Kaur, ‘He walked like he owned himself’, 2018]

“In November 2020, Jasper Marsalis left a crater in the rubble of a vacant site in Minneapolis. The simple earthwork was...
09/06/2025

“In November 2020, Jasper Marsalis left a crater in the rubble of a vacant site in Minneapolis. The simple earthwork was surrounded by seven powerful floodlights and titled ‘Stadium’, but there were no performers and no crowds.”

Jasper Marsalis – Profile by Michael Kurtz

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[image: Jasper Marsalis, ‘Stadium’, 2020]

Deadline 9 June!Michael O’Pray Prize – An award for new writing on moving image and artists’ filmThe Prize is aimed at w...
05/06/2025

Deadline 9 June!

Michael O’Pray Prize – An award for new writing on moving image and artists’ film

The Prize is aimed at writers starting out in their careers with no more than four articles previously published.

• £750 prize for the winner
• £350 prizes for two further awardees
• Each published by Art Monthly and FVU

2025 judges: Ed Atkins and Berlinda Zhawi

Deadline: noon 9 June 2025

https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/michael-opray-prize-2025/

The Michael O’Pray Prize is a Film and Video Umbrella initiative, in partnership with Art Monthly.

“In this country, where many formerly strong, working-class communities have gone into decline, despite the very workpla...
05/06/2025

“In this country, where many formerly strong, working-class communities have gone into decline, despite the very workplaces that neighbourhoods were built around having been long closed down or in need of drastic repair, working-class speech and imagination still survives and evolves.”

From the Back Catalogue: ‘Art/Class’ – Bob Dickinson wonders whether working-class culture can survive in the UK after continuous attack under successive Conservative governments. First published in 2022, now free online.

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[image: Oona Doherty, ‘Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer’, 2017]

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