Matthew Bowman discusses the history of destruction both of and in art, and Jes Fernie’s Archive of Destruction.

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Matthew Bowman

Artist John Smith discusses his pandemic-era video works ‘Citadel’ and ‘Covid Messages’ with writer Alexandra Hull.

John Smith

Tom Denman argues that further colonial and racial violences are at play in the institutional framing of so-called post-race and post-black discourses in the US and the UK.

Tom Denman

Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan on the use of advertising space by artists, the ‘Framework for Resilience’ discussion at Fact and ART CLUB2000 at Artists Space.

Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan

Chris Clarke on his interview with Phil Collins; Bob Dickinson asks can we free ourselves from capitalist pressures to keep working; Lauren Velvick on artist Jade Montserrat.

Chris Clarke, Bob Dickinson & Lauren Velvick

Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz and Conal McStravick on art-world manoeuvres over the past decade, photography books by David Levi Strauss and Jörg Colberg, and the work of Scottish artist Jamie Crewe.

Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz & Conal McStravick

Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington on the ever-widening gap in the UK art world between social, cultural and political realities; artists’ responses to the US’s denial of its colonial history; and the recent work of Irish artist Eimear Walshe.

Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington

Tom Denman and Sophie J Williamson discuss artists who counteract paradigms of racial representation, and also those who reveal unspoken taboos in art through the intimacy of being with someone dying.

Tom Denman & Sophie J Williamson

Mark Wilsher and Adan Heardman consider the notion of presence in art during a pandemic and discuss Elizabeth Price’s Artangel video installation ‘Slow Dans’.

Mark Wilsher & Adam Heardman

Amy Budd & Frances Whorrall-Campbell on Onyeka Igwe’s work exploring her family’s Nigerian history, and the changing way that pandemics have been televised by artists, from Stuart Marshall’s Bright Eyes during the AIDS crisis in 1984 to Grayson Perry’s response to Covid-19, Grayson’s Art Club.

Amy Budd & Frances Whorrall-Campbell

Bob Dickinson & Sophie J Williamson discuss the home in art as a place of haunted obsession, and explore silence not as a retreat from the world but as a state from which to enact protest.

Bob Dickinson & Sophie J Williamson

Morgan Quaintance, Khairani Barokka & John Douglas Millar discuss the current rush to online content and the failings of prescriptive commissioning policies, ableism in the art world, and new books by Olivia Laing and Paul B Preciado.

Morgan Quaintance, Khairani Barokka & John Douglas Millar

Adam Heardman and Adam Hines-Green discuss art, labour and the fall of the Red Wall in the north of England, and Steve McQueen’s locked-down exhibition at Tate Modern.

Adam Heardman & Adam Hines-Green

John Douglas Millar, Andrew Wilson and Morgan Quaintance discuss David Wojnarowicz’s New York, Genesis P-Orridge and the western art world’s blinkered approach to decolonialism.

John Douglas Millar, Andrew Wilson & Morgan Quaintance

Luisa Lorenza Corna, Kathryn Lloyd & Conal McStravick ask what has happened to feminism, discuss the work of artist-filmmaker Sophie Cundale and consider two books that examine the work of David Wojnarowicz in relation to New York’s changing waterfront.

Luisa Lorenza Corna, Kathryn Lloyd & Conal McStravick

Art Monthly's regular visual art discussion programme presented by Matt Hale and Chris McCormack broadcast by Resonance FM. Each month writers from the London-based contemporary art magazine discuss topics featured in the current issue.

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