Art Monthly Talk Show

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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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Art Monthly Talk Show episodes:

04.08.2024
Bob Dickinson
Bob Dickinson surveys the rise of authoritarian rule and charts feminist art practices that resist such forces.
03.11.2024
Laura Harris & Morgan Quaintance
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.
02.12.2024
Sarah E James, Jumana Manna & Larissa Sansour
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.
12.11.2023
Michael Hampton
Michael Hampton argues that auto-destruction is the default condition of all visual art.
11.13.2023
Anna Dezeuze & Maria Walsh
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.
10.09.2023
Matthew Bowman & Bob Dickinson
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.
09.11.2023
Sophie J Williamson & Bob Dickinson
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...
07.10.2023
Susan Jones & Stephanie Bailey
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.
06.12.2023
Colin Perry
Colin Perry discusses the earth work of contemporary artists and its differences from Land Art of the past or eco art of the present.
05.08.2023
Larne Abse Gogarty & Rebecca Jarman
Larne Abse Gogarty critiques the return of figurative painting and Rebecca Jarman reports on the São Paulo art scene.
04.10.2023
Greg Thomas & Sophie J Williamson
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.
03.13.2023
Morgan Quaintance
Morgan Quaintance discusses the dichotomy between the art world’s competitive pitching of artists against each other and its proclamations of nurturing care.
02.13.2023
Martin Holman & Mimi Howard
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.
12.12.2022
Chris Fite-Wassilak & Chris Hayes
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.
11.14.2022
Emily Rosamond, Juliet Jacques & Lucia Farinati
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.
10.10.2022
Ellen Mara De Wachter & Dave Beech
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’.
09.12.2022
Bob Dickinson, Francis Whorrall-Campbell & Gwen Burlington
Bob Dickinson on art and class; Francis Whorrall-Campbell on Lou Lou Sainsbury; Gwen Burlington on the Brent Biennale.
06.13.2022
Chris Hayes & Maria Walsh
Chris Hayes discusses the problems with Ireland’s proposed artist’s basic income scheme and Maria Walsh on the work of filmmaker Suki Chan.
05.09.2022
Chris Clarke & Anne Massey
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.
04.11.2022
Bob Dickinson
Bob Dickinson discusses the ways in which artists have attempted to engage with the legacies of trauma.
03.14.2022
Michaële Cutaya & Chloe Carroll
Michaële Cutaya on the importance of surface over depth, and Chloe Carroll on the role of the monument.
02.14.2022
Morgan Quaintance, Tom Hastings & Jack Smurthwaite
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.
12.13.2021
Bob Dickinson
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.
11.08.2021
Larne Abse Gogarty & Benoit Loiseau
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’.
10.11.2021
Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll
Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll discuss the remote viewing of moving-image artworks during the pandemic and the work of Irish artist Sam Keogh.
09.13.2021
Matthew Bowman
Matthew Bowman discusses the history of destruction both of and in art, and Jes Fernie’s Archive of Destruction.
06.14.2021
John Smith
Artist John Smith discusses his pandemic-era video works ‘Citadel’ and ‘Covid Messages’ with writer Alexandra Hull.
05.10.2021
Tom Denman
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.
04.12.2021
Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan
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.
03.08.2021
Chris Clarke, Bob Dickinson & Lauren Velvick
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.
02.08.2021
Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz & Conal McStravick
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.
12.14.2020
Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington
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...
11.09.2020
Tom Denman & Sophie J Williamson
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.
10.12.2020
Mark Wilsher & Adam Heardman
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’.
09.14.2020
Amy Budd & Frances Whorrall-Campbell
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...
07.13.2020
Bob Dickinson & Sophie J Williamson
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.
06.08.2020
Morgan Quaintance, Khairani Barokka & John Douglas Millar
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.
05.11.2020
Adam Heardman & Adam Hines-Green
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.
04.13.2020
John Douglas Millar, Andrew Wilson & Morgan Quaintance
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.
03.09.2020
Luisa Lorenza Corna, Kathryn Lloyd & Conal McStravick
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.
02.10.2020
Adam Hines-Green & Hana Noorali
Adam Hines-Green & Hana Noorali discuss the work of German–Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu and the exhibition ‘A.O.–B.C. An Audiovisual Diary’ at State of Concept in Athens.
12.09.2019
Lizzie Homersham, Elisa Adami, Vera Mey & Amna Malik
Lizzie Homersham, Elisa Adami, Vera Mey and Amna Malik discuss the changing nature of intimacy and its reflection in art, Anne Boyer’s book ‘The Undying’, the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and the photographic project The Found Archive...
11.11.2019
Morgan Quaintance, Elisabetta Fabrizi & George Vasey
Morgan Quaintance, Elisabetta Fabrizi & George Vasey analyse the problems with Kara Walker’s Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, discuss the BFI London Film Festival’s Experimenta strand and explore the coercive role of images as revealed in the work of...
10.14.2019
Virginia Whiles, Sarah Jury & Jack Smurthwaite
Virginia Whiles, Sarah Jury and Jack Smurthwaite discuss the work of Pakistani-born video artist Bani Abidi, the need for safety protocols to protect participants in live art works known as larps (Live Action Role Plays), and Dave Beech’s book ‘Art...
09.09.2019
Jonathan P Watts, Louisa Lee & Laura Harris
Jonathan P Watts, Louisa Lee and Laura Harris discuss British art 1976–95, BANK, Jef Cornelis’s art documentaries, and pay & conditions in the art world.
07.08.2019
Giulia Smith, Erika Balsom, Vladimir Seput & Conal McStravick
Giulia Smith, Erika Balsom, Vladimir Seput & Conal McStravick discuss the ‘Civic Duty’ exhibition at Cell Project Space, Lis Rhodes’s exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s exhibition at Peltz Gallery, and queerness and gentrification.
06.10.2019
Tom Snow, Maja and Reuben Fowkes & Matthew Bowman
Tom Snow, Maja and Reuben Fowkes & Matthew Bowman discuss activism as art, the ‘Southern Constellations’ exhibition in Ljubljana and Cory Arcangel’s show at Firstsite in Colchester.
05.13.2019
Adam Heardman, Adam Hines-Green & Lauren Houlton
Adam Heardman, Adam Hines-Green & Lauren Houlton discuss Petra Bauer’s socially engaged art practice, Richard Billingham’s film ‘Ray & Liz’ and the ‘Workforce’ exhibition at NewBridge Project in Gateshead. Presented by Alexandra Hull.
04.08.2019
Kathryn Lloyd, John Parton, Jamie Sutcliffe & George Vasey
Kathryn Lloyd, John Parton, Jamie Sutcliffe and George Vasey discuss exhibitions by Laure Prouvost, Callum Hill and Reinhard Mucha as well as the ‘Is This Tomorrow?’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
03.11.2019
Louise Ashcroft, Joseph Constable & Daniel Neofetou
Louise Ashcroft, Joseph Constable and Daniel Neofetou discuss collaborative models of artistic self-determination from alternative art schools to community interest companies, Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery and Josephine Berry’s book Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Enquiry.

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Art Monthly Talk Show episodes:

Bob Dickinson

Laura Harris & Morgan Quaintance

Sarah E James, Jumana Manna & Larissa Sansour

Michael Hampton

Anna Dezeuze & Maria Walsh

Matthew Bowman & Bob Dickinson

Sophie J Williamson & Bob Dickinson

Susan Jones & Stephanie Bailey

Colin Perry

Larne Abse Gogarty & Rebecca Jarman

Greg Thomas & Sophie J Williamson

Morgan Quaintance

Martin Holman & Mimi Howard

Chris Fite-Wassilak & Chris Hayes

Emily Rosamond, Juliet Jacques & Lucia Farinati

Ellen Mara De Wachter & Dave Beech

Bob Dickinson, Francis Whorrall-Campbell & Gwen Burlington

Chris Hayes & Maria Walsh

Chris Clarke & Anne Massey

Bob Dickinson

Michaële Cutaya & Chloe Carroll

Morgan Quaintance, Tom Hastings & Jack Smurthwaite

Bob Dickinson

Larne Abse Gogarty & Benoit Loiseau

Maria Walsh & Chloe Carroll

Matthew Bowman

John Smith

Tom Denman

Adam Heardman, Tess Charnley & Saim Demircan

Chris Clarke, Bob Dickinson & Lauren Velvick

Morgan Quaintance, Stephanie Schwartz & Conal McStravick

Morgan Quaintance, Izabella Scott & Gwen Burlington

Tom Denman & Sophie J Williamson

Mark Wilsher & Adam Heardman

Amy Budd & Frances Whorrall-Campbell

Bob Dickinson & Sophie J Williamson

Morgan Quaintance, Khairani Barokka & John Douglas Millar

Adam Heardman & Adam Hines-Green

John Douglas Millar, Andrew Wilson & Morgan Quaintance

Luisa Lorenza Corna, Kathryn Lloyd & Conal McStravick

Adam Hines-Green & Hana Noorali

Lizzie Homersham, Elisa Adami, Vera Mey & Amna Malik

Morgan Quaintance, Elisabetta Fabrizi & George Vasey

Virginia Whiles, Sarah Jury & Jack Smurthwaite

Jonathan P Watts, Louisa Lee & Laura Harris

Giulia Smith, Erika Balsom, Vladimir Seput & Conal McStravick

Tom Snow, Maja and Reuben Fowkes & Matthew Bowman

Adam Heardman, Adam Hines-Green & Lauren Houlton

Kathryn Lloyd, John Parton, Jamie Sutcliffe & George Vasey

Louise Ashcroft, Joseph Constable & Daniel Neofetou