Art Monthly Talk Show

Mark Prince argues that sculptures once-default position as a surrogate for presence has been challenged.

Sarah E James explains why political action always falls to individual artists, Matthew Bowman discusses Lucia Pizzani’s exhibition at Focal Point Gallery.

Dave Beech argues that the still life should be re-examined in the light of wider political, social and cultural contexts to understand what he calls ‘still lifescapes’. Hosted by Matt Hale.

Tom Denman considers the work of Leah Clements, including her coming exhibition at Peer in London, and Bob Dickinson discusses his feature ‘Art and Contested Memory’, which warns of the need to preserve collective memory against attempts by the far-right regimes to erase it.

Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience.

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.

Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world.

Morgan Falconer asks whether contemporary art is in decline and, if so, why; Tom Denman wonders why there is deafening silence in the art world as the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms.

Morgan Quaintance 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.

Rachel Pronger discusses the work of Vaginal Davis at the Gropius Bau, Peter Suchin covers Barbara Steveni’s work at Modern Art Oxford, Henry Broome looks at the troubled history between art and gentrification and Elizabeth Fullerton reports on the art scene in Tallinn.

Maja and Reuben Fowkes discuss the lessons we may learn from trees, and how artists can be their voice in this Pyrocene age.

Jamie Sutcliffe discusses artists’ tabletop role-playing games. Hosted by Matt Hale.

Erika Balsom on John Smith’s latest film ‘Being John Smith’, Ben Burbridge on rave culture as an unfulfilled promise for a new politics of the left and Dan Kidner reviews the Deep Time festival at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh.

Mark Prince discusses postwar US modernist abstraction as a form of cultural protectionism.

Bob Dickinson discusses artists who connect the sleep crisis to the climate crisis, while Tom Denman reviews the ‘Towards New Worlds’ exhibition at MIMA in Middlesbrough.

Michael Kurtz discusses the work of Delcy Morelos; Lauren Velvick on Roy Claire Potter’s ‘The Wastes’; Sarah E James considers exhibition formats that offer more complex models than those put forward in Claire Bishop’s book ‘Disordered Attention’.

Vaishna Surjid discusses Soumya Sankar Bose’s exhibition ‘Braiding Dusk and Dawn’ at Deflina Foundation in London; Amna Malik reviews Permindar Kaur’s exhibition ‘Nothing is Fixed’ at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton; and Henry Broome reports on public art in relation to homelessness and sanitation.

Mark Prince argues that digitalisation adds another dimension to debates about intention and production in a discussion that covers photography, painting and sculpture and covers artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp and Robert Ryman to Jon Rafman.

Tom Hastings, Sam Keogh and Luisa Lorenzo Corna discuss the attempts to suppress political protest and artists’ voices in the light of the current war in Gaza.

Bob Dickinson surveys the rise of authoritarian rule and charts feminist art practices that resist such forces.

Laura Harris claims that the Levelling Up programme is a sham and Morgan Quaintance argues that Chris Ofili’s ‘Requiem’ for the victims of Grenfell Tower was compromised from the start.

Sarah E James discusses her article on cultural censorship and exclusion of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in the arts and beyond, with the artists Jumana Manna and Larissa Sansour.

Michael Hampton argues that auto-destruction is the default condition of all visual art.

Anna Dezeuze discusses whether it is possible for art to turn the tide on ‘alt-right’ conspiracy theories, and Maria Walsh explores the work of Lebanese artist filmmaker Ali Cherri.

Matthew Bowman goes in search of lost experience in the commercially co-opted field of immersive art and Bob Dickinson argues that citizen artists can intervene to halt the seemingly inexorable process of gentrification.

Sophie J Williamson assesses the turn towards art-food practices, particularly fermentation, and how these can be politicised to counter societal decay, and Bob Dickinson argues that it is time to repair the damage done by rampant individualism, the hallmark of both modernist and neoliberal cultures, which has undermined social cohesion in art and society.

Susan Jones analyses the way funding models continue to exploit artists’ labour and Stephanie Bailey discusses the work of Beijing-based artist Wang Tuo. Presented by Chris McCormack.

Colin Perry discusses the earth work of contemporary artists and its differences from Land Art of the past or eco art of the present.

Larne Abse Gogarty critiques the return of figurative painting and Rebecca Jarman reports on the São Paulo art scene.

Greg Thomas reports on the artists’ huts of Scotland’s Bothy Project and Sophie J Williamson discusses artists who target the excesses of extractive capitalism.

Morgan Quaintance discusses the dichotomy between the art world’s competitive pitching of artists against each other and its proclamations of nurturing care.

Martin Holman reports on a major Arte Povera survey exhibition in Paris and Mimi Howard discusses the issues around gallery presentation of video art in the age of the smartphone.

Chris Fite-Wassilak on artists who make use of fungus as a pointed form of institutional critique; Chris Hayes argues that we need to re-engage with anticapitalist thinking about technology.

Emily Rosamond discusses online reputation warfare, Juliet Jacques reports on Manifesta 14 in Prishtina and Lucia Farinati reviews a show by Italian feminist artist group Le Nemesiache.

Ellen Mara De Wachter and Dave Beech discuss the ‘Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics’ exhibition at the Barbican and Maryam Jafri’s artist’s book ‘Independence Days’.

Bob Dickinson on art and class; Francis Whorrall-Campbell on Lou Lou Sainsbury; Gwen Burlington on the Brent Biennale.

Chris Hayes discusses the problems with Ireland’s proposed artist’s basic income scheme and Maria Walsh on the work of filmmaker Suki Chan.

Chris Clarke discusses the 59th Venice Biennale ’The Milk of Dreams’ and Anne Massey considers some of the shortcomings of ‘Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945—1965’ currently on show at the Barbican Gallery in London.

Bob Dickinson discusses the ways in which artists have attempted to engage with the legacies of trauma.

Michaële Cutaya on the importance of surface over depth, and Chloe Carroll on the role of the monument.

Morgan Quaintance on the problems with Tate’s British-Caribbean exhibition ‘Life Between Islands’, Tom Hastings on performer SERAFINE1369, and Jack Smurthwaite on Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s solo show at Arebyte.

Bob Dickinson discusses ‘Art and Dyschronia’, his essay where he warns that our concern for the future should not distract us from what is happening to the past at the hands of right-wing populist governments intent on rewriting history.

Larne Abse Gogarty on the work of artist Adam Farah, whose work was on show at Camden Art Centre, and Benoit Louiseau on Gregg Bordowitz’s AIDS-related exhibition ‘I Wanna Be Well’.

Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll discuss the remote viewing of moving-image artworks during the pandemic and the work of Irish artist Sam Keogh.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.