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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 12h

October art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in Art Monthly’s 50th Anniversary newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Anthony Shapland, ’Sleeper’, 2026, film screening at Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham] #artjobs

A photograph of a life model standing alongside an easel in a white space as a starling flies past and two of the birds perch on his head.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 500, October 2026 50TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

Art Monthly magazine October issue with a text-based cover that details an estimate of the magazine’s output over the past half century: 50 years, 500 issues, 1,250 writers, 250 interviews, 1,500 features, 1,750 reports, 7,500 reviews, 12,000 articles, 20,000,000 words, One Art Monthly.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“An economic paradigm that pushes institutions of governance and education into a culture of cut-throat, profit-driven single-mindedness does the same harm to art and education as it does to the social fabric in general.”

A photograph of girls pacing in a school courtyard holding placards with phrases such as ‘education is a worldwide solution’ and ‘sexism should never be tolerated’.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Art Monthly 50th Anniversary Weekend 26–27 September 2026 Raven Row 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7LS ravenrow.org/news/art-mon... Celebrate Art Monthly magazine’s 50th anniversary and the launch of its 500th issue with an archival display and a series of free talks.

Black and red text on a white background giving headline information about the Art Monthly
50th Anniversary Weekend event at Raven Row.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“All politics, theories, legal struggles, advocacy and activism emerge from the lived experience of people. Sometimes we are left only with ideological or technical discussions and arguments. Testimonies help us bring the lived experience of people back into the centre of discussion.”

A film still of a woman laid back in a chair side lit by warm light against a dark grey background.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

September art jobs, residencies, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Eva Rothschild, ‘The Void Presses the Wall’, in conversation, 6.30pm 21 Sep, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh] #artjobs

A photograph of a gallery installation including stacked boxes of different washed-out colours.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 499, September 2026 • Amar Kanwar – interviewed by Amanprit Sandhu • Stephen Willats – talks to Chris Clarke • Closing Down – Ranjana Thapalyal • Lap-See Lam – Profile by Phoebe Cripps + news, views, reviews and more…

Art Monthly magazine September issue with a cover featuring a photograph of a blue-and-white striped billboard on a London street corner above a corner shop called Euston Express.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“A guiding question – perhaps the central question that permeates Sung Tieu’s work – is what remains of dignity once it is mediated and administered through bureaucratic forms of recognition.”

A photograph of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale after a brutalist-style facade has been added so that it resembles an East German housing block.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“In ‘Empire of Normality’, the philosopher Robert Chapman traces the myth of ‘normal brains’ to the intensification of capitalism, which chimes with Oliver Burkeman’s writing on productivity and deep time.”

A photograph of a figure holding a reversed mirror in front of their face so that the mirror reflects the architecture behind the viewer.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

August art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → image: Sahej Rahal, ‘Distributed Mind Test’, 2024, talk with Jamie Sutcliffe, Tate Modern, 3pm Sat 22 Aug #artjobs

A gloomy videogame-like scene that appears to show a futuristic robot standing over a model of a city.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“When facing up to the great mismanagement and theft of water, we might note the increasing interest in hydro-humanities, a practice that is closely linked with the concept of the hydro-commons, which insists that water sources everywhere are interconnected.”

A photograph of a large rock wall on which is hung a series of bare tree branches strung with elements including speakers that play field recordings of birdsong.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Through my art practice, I place the viewer in a position to reconnect with the earth through their bodies and remember where they came from.” ‘On Earth’ – Delcy Morelos interviewed by Elizabeth Fullerton

A photograph of the narrow pathway within an earth sculpture where a shaft of light through the entrance illuminates the tiled floor in an otherwise dark space constructed of mud and plant matter.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

July art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Neurocultures Collective, ‘The Stimming Pool’, 2024, screening, 5pm 28 July, Chapter, Cardiff] #artjobs

A film still showing a person in an animal costume standing in an empty swimming pool.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 498, July–August 2026 • Delcy Morelos – interviewed by Elizabeth Fullerton • Art and the Hydrocene – Bob Dickinson • Art and Autism – Sonia Boué • On Human Dignity – Dan Rees • Nancy Lupo – Profile by Lizzie Lloyd + news, views, reviews and more…

Art Monthly magazine July-August issue with a cover featuring a photograph of a traditional bay window installed freestanding in the middle of a large gallery.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“If the first YouTube post, ‘Me at the zoo’, has become worthy of the V&A Museum collection, it is because it condenses with ruthless intensity the conditions of attention, representation and consumption that have come to shape art and communication in the first quarter of the millennium.”

A screenshot of the original YouTube interface from 2005.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“It is ironic that Benvenuto Chavajay’s peripatetic performance honouring Miguel Ángel Asturias was blocked by Parisian authorities at the grave of Asturias, who, when alive, was also a wanderer, expelled from Guatemala in 1954 and stripped of his citizenship for opposing a US-led coup.”

A photograph of the artist in the street, his bare torso covered in corn flour paste.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Anne Truitt’s anomalous sculptural idiom – a minimalistic formalism – points in two directions which seem mutually exclusive: ‘standing’ but ‘intactly’, it complies with sculpture’s definitional conditions to escape their confines.”

A photograph of an artist’s studio filled with freestanding vertical column sculptures painted in various flat colours with occasional horizontal stripes.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“Each reader re-authors the text in the act of reading, and I was fascinated by the way agency was distributed within a group and between human and machine.” ‘Disfluency’ – Anna Barham interviewed by Lizzie Lloyd June Art Monthly www.artmonthly.co.uk pic: Anna Barham, ‘Out of the gravel’, 2022/26

A photograph of a gallery installation featuring large sheets of score paper pasted onto the walls lumpily covering wall-mounted elements such as metal frames and rolls of cable.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

June art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Anna Barham performance, ‘Writing Art Writing Art Writing’, 1.30pm 27 June, Spike Island, Bristol] #artjobs

A photograph of a gallery lit with dim magenta light as a group sit on a rug listening to a performer reading text projected on the wall.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 497, June 2026 • Anna Barham – interviewed by Lizzie Lloyd • Against Standing – Mark Prince • Art and ID – Bob Dickinson • Me at the Zoo – Giovanni Aloi • Lydia Ourahmane – profile by Chris McCormack + news, views, reviews and more…

Art Monthly magazine June issue with a cover featuring a photograph of a woman sitting in a rough outdoor setting wearing incongruous haute-couture clothing including extravagant sunglasses and gold high-heel shoes.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“Megan Plunkett interrogates our relationship, and that of photography, with objects: she works with props, as well as found objects, consumer detritus and film industry replicas, to circumvent established systems of ownership and desire.”

A photograph of a car interior featuring a protective mat over the rear seats on which sits a small dog.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“When Donald Trump was inaugurated as president it seemed that conspiracy, and its particular modes of constructing stories from reality, had officially moved from the margins to the centre.”

A wall-based sculpture consisting of a book about pistols on which are hooked assorted items including handcuffs, whistle, baton and keyrings.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“Hassan Khan is unambivalent when he outlines what he sees as art’s critical role in our current times of genocide: ‘To make the taboo visible in a way that is uncensorable is for me at this moment one of the most important political acts art can do.’”

A person stands grimacing at the camera from the distance in a small cube-like space framed by vast curtains and a carpeted floor.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“I think one of the problems of today is a tendency to crystallise meaning when it comes to images of power, in how they are constructed and interpreted, whereas I am seeking to trouble such images.”

An upside-down photograph of a figure looking into a large round mirror placed on an ornate floor that is reflecting an elaborately frescoed ceiling.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Spring special offer ends midnight Thursday 7 May All individual print subscriptions taken out 29 Apr – 7 May 2026 will automatically be upgraded to combined print+digital subscriptions at no extra cost.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

May art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: ‘Ungrounding’, Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman in conversation, 6.45pm 6 May, ICA, London] #artjobs

Layered photographs of bare, churned earth with a broken tree on the horizon.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 496, May 2026 • Isaac Julien – interviewed by Tom Denman • Beyond Cancel Culture – Sarah E James • Megan Plunkett – Profile by Gabriella Nugent • On Labour – Nicholas Gamso + news, views, reviews and more… [cover: Harit Srikhao, ‘Study of the Cave Shadow’, 2025]

Art Monthly magazine May issue with a cover featuring a house-like shape roughly drawn in charcoal.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“Devastating world wars have clearly altered the course of cultural politics, and they have significantly rewritten the remit of sculpture. Improvisation and bricolage refocused the very sense of making, unmaking, doing and undoing.”

A black-and-white photograph of sculptures that evoke industrial vent pipework place in a wide airstrip landscape.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Soviet conceptualism was largely defined by the absorption of photography into art practices but, unlike western Conceptual Art, it sought to deconstruct mass distribution: unique art objects were central to Moscow conceptualism’s critique of the copy.”

A rough, blue-printed photograph of a run-down Soviet street scene.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“Ironically, when Modernism was finally free to be uncovered, exhibited and advocated in post-Soviet Russia and throughout so much of its former imperium, it was frequently conjoined with a revived nationalism because each ‘liberated’ state sought to reassert its national distinctiveness.”

A photograph of the artist, back to camera, standing in military uniform before symmetrically angled mirrors that surround his image with four reflections.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Found objects are everywhere, they’re affordable to work with and have intriguing material qualities, but I’m more interested in them as materials or objects that do not have an inherent or recognised value – as things full of potential, to become or to be, very much like ourselves.”

A photograph of a sculptural installation that fills a pink-painted gallery with assorted material elements, from lumps of clay and breeze blocks to electric fans and tape curtains.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

April art jobs, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: ‘Radical Collections’, Delaine Le Bas and Clémentine Deliss in conversation, 6.30pm 23 Apr, Whitworth, Manchester] #artjobs

A photograph of visitors at an exhibition where the artworks are revealed through drawings on torn paper that covers the walls.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 495, April 2026 • Anne Hardy – interviewed by Joanne Laws • On Modernism – Steven Mensbach • On Sculpture – Marjorie Welish • Fiona Connor – Profile by Kathryn Lloyd + news, views, reviews and more… [cover: Christine Kozlov, ‘Untitled (Nothing IV)’, c1967-69]

Art Monthly magazine April issue with a cover featuring typewritten text repeating the word ‘nothing’ in various columns with bullet points between.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“A fully realised still lifescape would not only include the makers of the objects represented in still life and the communities which provide their raw materials, those who prepare the dinner or banquet and clean up after it, and the printers and paper makers of the books and manuscripts …

A Pop Art painting of a delicatessen counter featuring assorted meats and cheeses.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

“The words CCCP (Cyryllic for USSR) on Yuri Gagarin's helmet were painted there at the last minute in case the rural population mistook him for a western spy descending into the remote Russian countryside.”

A photograph of a cosmonaut floating in a space station with an abstract geometric sculpture hovering in front of him.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Ailton Krenak has been quoted as actually welcoming the idea of humans colonising planets like Mars because it might enable the Earth to be ‘left to us’, meaning, of course, indigenous peoples.”

A macro photo of a miniature tabletop landscape featuring many tiny satellite dishes and radar stations.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Spring special offer ends midnight Sunday 8 March All individual print subscriptions taken out 25 Feb – 8 Mar 2026 will automatically be upgraded to combined print+digital subscriptions at no extra cost.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“I was conscious of the ease with which renderings of the landscape can so easily become bucolic or romanticised – the trope of the simple rural ways of living that obscures the continual displacement and expropriation of land in the interests of capital.”

A film still showing a close up of feet standing embedded in the dry earth of crop rows where small seedlings are springing forth into the bright sunlight.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

March art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Fiona Banner, ‘Every Word Unmade’, 2006–07, artist talk, 3pm 21 Mar, The Common Guild, Glasgow] #artjobs

A photograph of wall-mounted white neon tubes of each letter of the alphabet written in narrow wobbly block caps, only the letters M to Q are visible in the image.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 494, March 2026 • Rehana Zaman – interviewed by Adam Benmakhlouf • Mars Attacks – Bob Dickinson • Still Lifescapes – Dave Beech • Arash Nassiri – Profile by Matt Williams + news, views, reviews and more… [cover: Rehana Zaman, ‘Soft Fruit’, 2026]

Art Monthly magazine March issue with a cover featuring a close-up photograph of film stock featuring piles of strawberries variously ripe or overripe

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“Leah Clements’s commitment to access is pronounced in her use of alt (or alternative) text – the verbal description of images that assists the visually or aurally impaired – in which she is one of contemporary art’s most innovative practitioners.”

A nighttime photograph of the large screens at Piccadilly Circus displaying in huge white block capitals on a black background the text 'my mouth was vibrating'.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“The politics of imagining the US’s downfall has always been inconclusive; even as it is obliterated, these visions continue to place America centre stage. Dreams of the centre falling, after all, confirm where the centre of the world is, investing it with power even as it symbolically collapses.”

A photograph of a gallery installation featuring a wall piled high with fire logs that are arranged into the design of a US flag but which have been part removed.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Performance art had an important role in defying Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship because of its ability to sidestep censorship, and as such it features significantly in the country’s collective memory of the period.”

A film still of an opera singer performing in close up against a sky-blue background.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

“It is not the cultivated slowness of wellness culture, nor a radical rest of liberation. It is something more inert, and perhaps more dangerous to capitalism’s sensibility: rest without promise. I am not accruing value; I am not ‘becoming’.”

A photo of a blue bench outside a gallery covered with white lettering that reads: It was hard to get here. Rest here if you agree.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

“If you are out in the world and you’re not living on the internet, then you’re constantly being fed with the random and the infinite variety of the world, you are being given opportunities by what you observe. You’re given a vision. What are you gonna do with it?”

A photo of a grand marble interior empty save for some small piles of brightly coloured material.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

February art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter: www.artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters → [image: Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon, 2024, screening, 2pm Sun 1 Feb, Chapter, Cardiff] #artjobs

A film still showing a group of people in a candlelit room taking part in a healing ritual.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Art Monthly, Issue 493, February 2026 • Christina Mackie – interviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak • Sick at Art – Sophie J Williamson • Art and Contested Memory – Bob Dickinson • Leah Clements – Tom Denman + news, views, reviews and more… [cover: El Morgan, ‘Have you had a productive day?’, 2023]

Art Monthly magazine February issue with a cover featuring a close-up photograph of a pair of beetles mating overlaid with a descriptive subtitle that reads: (dramatic orchestral music)

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“The curator talks about moving beyond apocalyptic thinking, yet by declaring every contemporary ill somehow ‘fascist’, this exhibition falls into that very trap. Given the dire straits to which current politics has brought the world, art-induced apathy is another indulgence we cannot afford.”

A pristine police riot helmet is displayed on a plinth, light glinting off its visor.

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Dr Mark Wilsher SFHEA @markwilshernuni.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I have a review of Keith Sawyer’s fascinating book Learning To See in the Dec/Jan issue of @artmonthly.bsky.social magazine. And this prompted me to think of the key books on learning and teaching that I am always recommending to staff at Norwich University of the Arts. #CreativeEducation

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Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🎨 Publishing since 1976, @artmonthly.bsky.social is the UK’s leading magazine of contemporary visual art, with in-depth features, interviews, and coverage of major trends by independent critics. 👀 Browse the complete Art Monthly archive on Exact Editions.

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