Two features from the May 2012 edition of Art Monthly are discussed with writers Paul O’Kane and Omar Kholeif. Omar Kholeif is a writer and curator at FACT, Liverpool, a visiting curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester, and is associate curator at the Arab British Centre, London. Paul O’Kane is an artist, writer and lecturer based in London. [...]
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Art Monthly Talk Show 13th April 2012
Published by April 23rd, 2012 in Art Monthly Monthly. 0 CommentsOn Drawing- Christopher Townsend Christopher Townsend touches on the physicality of drawing Renaissance artists considered drawing a way of communicating the maker’s identity, and it remains an artform that is resolutely physical. Even the most apparently hands-off of artists, such as Donald Judd and even Gordon Matta-Clark, are [...]
Art Monthly Talk Show 9th March 2012
Published by March 28th, 2012 in Art Monthly Monthly. 1 CommentPrivate Moments Morgan Quaintance makes the case for imaginative engagement as a form of participation Discussion around particpatory art has missed one important category of engagement. Where is the analysis of artists – such as Manon de Boer and Marjolijn Dijkman – who purposefully cue up and then direct the individual viewer’s imagination? ‘Since the [...]
Art Monthly Talk Show 10th February 2012
Published by February 22nd, 2012 in Art Monthly Monthly. 0 CommentsOmar Kholeif discusses his feature on western appropriation of art from the Arab world entitled Arabic Agendas and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art discussing his feature Out of this world. The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991. Previous episodes [...]
Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern John Douglas Millar discusses his review of Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern . “The show is vast; there is the work that spars with Marcel Duchamp, the landscapes that investigate German Romanticism, September, 2005, his mournful and considered reaction to [...]
Art Monthly 9th December 2011
Published by December 20th, 2011 in Art Monthly Monthly and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsTV Makeover Colin Perry on the vexed relationship between art and TV Where once video artists set about attempting to subvert broadcast television, recently they seem to have surrendered to its normative codes. Since the most troubling aspects of TV have tended to get worse over time, [...]
The Made v The Readymade Mark Prince on the resistance of objects In the story of recent sculpture, making has given way to assemblages and installations of known objects that carry narrative overtones – but there are artists who resist this trajectory. If the readymade reduces the [...]
Art Monthly 14th October 2011
Published by November 2nd, 2011 in Art Monthly Monthly and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsIn this programme writer Laura McLean-Ferris and writer,musician and curator Morgan Quaintance discuss Laura’s feature from the October issue 351 of Art Monthly. Dissolution- on the internet, sculpture and the body in pieces. A new generation of artists is tackling an age-old modernist subject with a [...]
Art Monthly- September 9th, 2011
Published by September 29th, 2011 in Art Monthly Monthly. 0 CommentsPeter Suchin discusses Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and then continues with John Douglas Millar to discuss John’s feature Art/Writing on why experimental writing thrives in the art world. There has been an upsurge in experimental writing, but why has it found [...]
Future Past Christopher Townsend on a very British modernism Wakefield’s new Barbara Hepworth museum gives visitors a slice of mid-century British modernism, but how can we comprehend this historical period when it is refracted – via contemporary culture – through late capitalism’s self mythologising? ‘The era [...]