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Issue 489 September 2025
Hilary Lloyd, Very High Frequency, 2025
Interview
Woman with a Camera
Hilary Lloyd interviewed by Chris McCormack
One of the things about filming people is that if somebody is doing something that they are consumed by then they will become glorious, otherwise they're feeling under threat from the camera or what's being demanded.
From the Back Catalogue Art Engagement Lizzie Lloyd asks whether an artist needs to describe themselves as socially engaged in order to engage socially. First published in 2022, now free online.
Jo Spence, in collaboration with Terry Dennett, The Highest Product of Capitalism, 1979
Feature
Talking in Class
Dave Beech argues that we are still lacking the political will or the theoretical tools to talk about class
Downplaying the political narrative has the mysterious effect of pushing the working class as an empirical category into the history of capitalism while denying it a place in contemporary capitalism.
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999
Feature
Dance Class
Chris Townsend celebrates the transgressive power of dance, from the bacchanale to the rave, and laments its repression under late capitalism
Consider the dance marathons of the US's 1930s depression era, dramatised in Sydney Pollack's 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? If there's a finer allegory of industrial capitalism's ruthless demands upon the human, I'm struggling to find it.
Maryam Tafakory, Razah-del, 2024
Profile
Maryam Tafakory
Luisa Lorenza Corna
The brilliance of Maryam Tafakory's approach lies in reversing the usual way prohibitions are signposted: she turns the gaze towards the film industry's efforts to keep desire within the frame, and the shifts in image-reading this prompted across Iranian spectatorship.
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Editorial
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
The government's heavy-handed response to Palestine Action protesters spraypainting military jets only highlights the draconian nature of new anti-protest laws and their devastating impact, particularly on the lives of young campaigners.
It is instructive to compare the present government's overreaction regarding Palestine Action with that of the government of the day to the activists from the anti-nuclear Women's Peace Camp who, on 24 July 1983, committed a similar act of trespass on the RAF base at Greenham Common.
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Artnotes
CCA Action
CCA Glasgow issues an apology after it called in police in response to peaceful protests; Anish Kapoor works with Greenpeace to campaign against fossil fuels; Amy Sherald cancels her solo show at Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery after the institution capitulated in advance to President Donald Trump's discriminatory agenda; IMMA dispels press reports of censorship over a Derek Jarman screening; the government publishes its underwhelming plans for the arts; plus the latest on galleries, people, awards and more.
nabbterri, a suitable host, 2025, Helsinki Biennial
Exhibitions
Rebecca Horn: Cutting Through the Past
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Maria Walsh
Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams
Courtauld Gallery, London
Matthew Bowman
Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II
South London Gallery
Andrew Chesher
Permindar Kaur: Mirror, Mirror
Prem Sahib: Doubles
Pitzhanger Manor, London
Paul Carey-Kent
Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung
Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good
Goldsmiths CCA, London
Daniel Culpan
Kaari Upson: Dollhouse
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Elizabeth Fullerton
Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order
WIELS and argos, Brussels
Ellen Mara De Wachter
Helsinki Biennial: Shelter – Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging
various venues
Lucia Farinati
36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle
various venues
Toby Üpson
Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell, Direct Action, 2024
Film
Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell: Direct Action
Nicholas Gamso
Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau's new documentary is a sort of love letter to the famed ZAD commune and the rugged beauty of its human and more-than-human denizens, though ultimately it is a languishing, unrequited love, which aggravates its subjects and raises questions about how best to represent activist movements, if at all.
Jenkin van Zyl, Lost Property, 2025
Film
Jenkin van Zyl: Lost Property
Michael Kurtz
Much has been made of the maximalist intensity of Jenkin van Zyl's art, but his intelligence as a filmmaker is often overlooked. Central to Lost Property, for instance, is the interaction between linear content and cyclical format.
Yasmina Reggad, we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming. all before… all after…, 2025
Sound
Yasmina Reggad: we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming. all before… all after…
Stephanie Bailey
Initiated in 2016 and composed of live radio broadcasts, performances and installations, this latest iteration continues Yasmina Reggad's polyglot investigation into the role of radio in previous revolutions and its resonances today.
'Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen'
Sound
Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen
Irene Revell
Rather than reconstruct the 'problem' of the colonial (sound) archive, here we are plunged into just a dozen or so of the numerous ways that work interrogates these histories on its own terms and in resistance.
How to Set Up an Art School
Books
How to Set Up an Art School
Natalie Bradbury
The book owes as much to punk and DIY traditions as bureaucratic institutions: an irreverently styled sausage on a stick designed by the artist Bruce McLean, which is presented to students in place of a traditional graduation certificate, gives a particularly good sense of TOMA's ethos.
Sweeney's Bothy, one of the Bothy Project residences
Reports
On Residencies
Maria Fusco
Residencies are an unstructured time away from everyday life, an opportunity to reflect, not to renounce the everyday but to understand it.
Sean O'Connell, Sam Batley, 2025
Reports
Letter from Barnsley
Lillian Wilkie
This ambivalence, around class, tradition and masculinity, and around Barnsley's industrial heritage, gives Sam Batley and Sean O'Connell's work a contemporary relevance and compelling energy.
view over Malta International Contemporary Arts Space (MICAS)
Reports
Letter from Malta
Laura Robertson
'These stones are yours,' prize-winning Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud writes, 'they arose from your land / from your body, your soul, your mouth.'
John Chamberlain, Etruscan Romance, 1984, estimate £300,000–500,000, sold for £463,550
Salerooms
London Summer Sales
Colin Gleadell
London's summer auctions continued their precipitous slide downwards in June when Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips amassed just £101m between them for their modern and contemporary art sales, though one silver lining came in the form of further evidence that women artists are finally starting to be valued in line with men.
an artwork by Pete Doige not Peter Doig
Artlaw
Fake or Fortune?
Henry Lydiate
Had the claimants chosen not to pursue Peter Doig, but instead to publicly exhibit and market the fake painting with their attribution of his authorship, would the artist have had any legal right to prevent them? That's where moral rights come in.
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Edinburgh Art Festival x Art Monthly Writer's Award
Linder, A kind of glamour about me, 2025
2025 Winner
Acts of Defiance Ren Scateni on artists who are remaking Scottish histories
Performed at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was A kind of glamour about me, a collaboration between Linder, choreographer Holly Blakey, composer Maxwell Sterling and fashion designer Ashish Gupta. The commissioned performance looked at how bodies (often women, non-binary and queer) have been historically controlled and coerced by the environments they find themselves in.
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Jul: 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. Hosted by Matt Hale.
Jun: 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. Hosted by Chris McCormack.
May: 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. Hosted by Chris McCormack.
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