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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Only in the October Art Monthly – Issue Number 500 Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk Instant access to all 500 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly [image: Meiro Koizumi, ‘The Angels of Testimony’, 2019] #art

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Ironically, and sadly too, is very hard to show a lot of my work in Japan, which is why I have never shown ‘The Angels of Testimony’ there. The taboos I am addressing in this work are too deeply ingrained.” ‘Breaking the Pattern’ – Meiro Koizumi interviewed by Tom Denman

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk Instant access to all 500 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly [image: Barbara Kruger, ‘Untitled (Greedy Schmuck)’, 2012] #art

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“My work was hot, not cool. The address was forthright rather than withholding. I was never cool enough to be cool. That’s still the case.” ‘Dangerous Times’ – Barbara Kruger interviewed by John Douglas Millar Only in the October Art Monthly – Issue Number 500

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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

Delivered to your door: www.artmonthly.co.uk Quarterly recurring subscriptions from only £13: www.artmonthly.co.uk/direct-debit Instant access to all 500 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly Institutions: institutions.exacteditions.com/art-monthly /// TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976 #art

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

Artist pages by • Janice Kerbel • John Smith • Alfredo Jaar • Rosalind Nashashibi • Isaac Julien • Ed Atkins + news, views, reviews and more…

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

• Barbara Kruger – interviewed by John Douglas Millar • Meiro Koizumi – interviewed by Tom Denman • On Truth Decay – Francis Frascina • Museums of Convenience – Dan Rees • Art and Gore Capitalism – Bob Dickinson • Alex Margo Arden – Profile by Ivan Knapp

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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

‘Closing Down’ – Ranjana Thapalyal sees the recent closures of public art spaces as indicative of a wider shutting down of cultural debate Only in the September Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Suzanne Lacy, ‘School of Revolutionary Girls’, 2024] #art

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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.”

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

Patricia Bickers Jenni Lomax Marlene Smith Gilane Tawadros Larne Abse Gogarty Felicity Allen Sutapa Biswas Amikam Toren Paul Wood James Lingwood Helen Cammock Sarah James Vali Mahlouji Nick Thurston David Dibosa Lisa Le Feuvre Melissa Gronlund Ralph Rugoff Milan Ther Chris McCormack

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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.

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

‘Testimony’ – Amar Kanwar interviewed by Amanprit Sandhu Only in the September Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Amar Kanwar, ‘Such a Morning’, 2017] #art

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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.”

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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

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

[cover: Photo-souvenir: Daniel Buren, ‘White and Blue Glued Papers’, work in situ, London, 2026] www.artmonthly.co.uk Quarterly subscriptions from £13: www.artmonthly.co.uk/direct-debit Instant access to all 499 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly /// TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976 #art

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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…

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

‘On Human Dignity’ – Dan Rees reflects on issues raised by Sung Tieu’s work for the German Pavilion in Venice Only in the July–August Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Sung Tieu, ‘Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable’, 2026] #art

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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.”

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

‘Art and Autism’ – Sonia Boué surveys how neurodiversity liberates us from the capitalist myth of neurological normativity and conformity Only in the July–August Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Sonia Boué, ‘Safe as Houses’, 2020] #art

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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.”

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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

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

‘Art and the Hydrocene’ – As access to water becomes increasingly unequal, Bob Dickinson argues that it might be time for us to adopt the newly coined term ‘hydrocene’ to describe our age July–August Art Monthly www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Tania Candiani, ‘Waterbirds, Migratory Sound Flow’, 2022]

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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.”

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

Only in the July–August Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Delcey Morelos, ‘origo’, 2026] #art

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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

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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

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

[cover: Nancy Lupo, ‘Several Chickens Later’, 2026] www.artmonthly.co.uk Quarterly subs from only £13: www.artmonthly.co.uk/direct-debit Instant access to all 498 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly Institutions: institutions.exacteditions.com/art-monthly TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976 #art

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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

‘Me at the Zoo’ – For Giovanni Aloi, the very first YouTube video captures the contemporary mode of looking as a form of consumerist browsing Only in the June Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13. www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Jawed Karim, ‘Me at the zoo’, 2005] #art

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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.”

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

‘Art and ID’ – Bob Dickinson observes how in western societies the debate around ID cards centres on issues about security while for many it remains a political struggle to achieve the right to an identity June Art Monthly www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Benvenuto Chavajay, ‘Corn Man’, 2020] #art

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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.”

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

‘On Sculpture: Against Standing’ – Mark Prince argues that sculpture’s once default position as a surrogate for presence has been challenged, taking it in new and more interesting directions June Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13. www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Anne Truitt’s studio, 1979] #art

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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.”

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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

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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

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

[cover: Diana Kaumba, ‘Legendary Glamma – High Fashion in the African Landscape’, 2024] www.artmonthly.co.uk Quarterly recurring subscriptions from only £13: www.artmonthly.co.uk/direct-debit Instant access to all 497 issues: exacteditions.com/artmonthly /// TAKING ART APART SINCE 1976 #art

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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 – Profile by Gabriella Nugent Only in the May Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Megan Plunkett, ‘Special Friend 14’, 2018] #art

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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.”

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

From the Back Catalogue: ‘Conspiracy’ – Anna Dezeuze asks whether it is possible for art to turn the tide on ‘alt-right’ conspiracy theories First published in 2023 Read for free now: www.artmonthly.co.uk/articles [image: Cady Noland, ‘Percussion and Cartridge Revolvers’, 1984] #art

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Art Monthly : Article : Artist’s Moral Rights – Henry Lydiate on the development of artist’s moral rights

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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.”

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

‘Beyond Cancel Culture’ – Sarah E James asks why the onus of taking a political stand continues to fall on artists rather than on cultural institutions Only in the May Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Hassan Khan, ‘Little Castles’, 2025] #art

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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.’”

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

‘Close Encounters’ – Isaac Julien interviewed by Tom Denman Only in the May Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Isaac Julien, ‘Metamorphosis I (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)’, 2025] #art

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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.”

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

The free digital subscription gives full online access to the entire Art Monthly back catalogue of around 500 issues stretching back to 1976. To take up the offer, simply purchase any print subscription and we’ll do the rest! Quarterly subs start at only £13 www.artmonthly.co.uk

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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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