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What's on this month Art Monthly newsletter No images? Web version: artmonthly.co.uk/newsletters/apr25 April 2025 Newsletter Magazine • Calendar • Maps • Podcasts • Opportunities Art Monthly Magazine Fiercely independent since 1976   Contents Issue 485 April 2025 Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, What's Left, 2025 Interview Good Vibrations Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader interviewed by Hannah Wallis Anger comes out of one isolated experience, but rage is this sensitive point that if it gets pushed, you have a disproportionate response because you are not responding to one small thing. It's an accumulation of all the anger you have ever held. Pilar Monsell, The Periphery of the Imagination, 2023 Feature Peripheral Vision Bob Dickinson considers the role of artists in the hinterland between rural and urban worlds The centre–periphery dichotomy still echoes today, and it especially haunts contemporary cultural politics in its continuing relevance to former colonial countries in the global south. Robert Zhao Renhui, For A Guide to the Secondary Forest of Singapore, 2024 Feature Afterburn As we enter the Pyrocene Age, Maja and Reuben Fowkes ask what political lessons can trees teach us and how do artists act as emissaries of arboreal ministry Artists are among the few voices ready to point out the gaping holes in the depoliticising projects of green transition, net zero and carbon trading, and to revitalise radical eco-visions of 'other futures'.   From the Back Catalogue Plant Matters Michaele Cutaya on the politics of plants. First published in 2023, now free online. Ebun Sodipo , 'I Found Venus and She Was Transexual', 2022 Profile Ebun Sodipo Tendai Mutambu The meme takes centre stage in Sodipo's work, a form that careens through timelines and phone chats, accruing and losing meaning, multiplying at high velocity before its eventual obsolescence. sponsored Editorial Now is the Time The idea that artists should keep their politics out of their art sprang from the fact that traditionally artists worked for the church or state, but an insistence on such a distinction today is long outdated. Instead, the question has become: if not now, when? Walter Benjamin's call for resistance, like Benjamin himself, was overwhelmed by events that no one could have foreseen. We have no such excuse. sponsored Artnotes Review Calling The government review of ACE has published its terms of reference and is seeking comment on ACE's activities; major public galleries in London and New York cut staff; the policy of universal free admission to museums is in the spotlight again; the arts sector is one of the worst offenders for paying below the Living Wage; Welsh arts and culture receives a much-needed funding boost; plus the latest on galleries, people, awards and more. Obituaries Mel Bochner 1940–2025 Liam Gillick Mark Pawson 1964–2025 Bridget Penney and Paul Holman Andrew Testa, Allercombe tree village, on the route of the proposed A30 Honiton Bypass, Devon, December, 1996, 'Resistance', Turner Contemporary, Margate Exhibitions Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest Turner Contemporary, Margate Martin Herbert Leigh Bowery! Tate Modern, London Daniel Culpan Tarot – Origins & Afterlives The Warburg Institute, London Peter Suchin Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 Kunsthalle Wien Juliet Jacques Mohammed Z Rahman: Remember to Live Peer, London Amrita Dhallu American Artist: Shaper of God Pioneer Works, New York Ravi Ghosh Bahar Noorizadeh FACT, Liverpool Sarah E James TJ Clark, Those Passions Books TJ Clark: Those Passions – On Art and Politics Adam Heardman For TJ Clark, creativity with a social conscience (or even consciousness) must exist in a hybrid state between the visionary and the achievable, the imagined and the material. A root-and-branch approach, but with a view of the sky. Steven Eastwood and the Neurocultures Collective, The Stimming Pool, 2024 Film Steven Eastwood and the Neurocultures Collective: The Stimming Pool Maria Walsh After a day's work in a busy office where their masking of autistic traits takes its toll, they arrive home and cavort on the floor and across the kitchen furniture with a mix of exhaustion and release, comedy and intensity, watched over by a border collie. Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn, Hagay Dreaming, 2025, Performance Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn: Hagay Dreaming Cherry Smyth In one of the most poignant moments, the hunter plays on the beams as if weaving on a bow loom and chants to the other dancers who answer her urgent call. Tarek Atoui, At-Tāriq, 2025 Sound Tarek Atoui: At-Tāriq – A Journey into the Rural Museum Traditions of North Africa and the Arab World Chris Hayes Speakers are embedded within domestic objects, their echoes diffused through fabric and wood. Sounds emerge from unexpected places, filling the space with layered, shifting tones. PoMo's reading room, Trondheim Reports Letter from Trondheim Henry Broome Images of Edvard Munch's The Scream have the same name recognition as Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers or Claude Monet's Water Lilies – it is also one of the few artworks to be turned into an emoji. San Telmo museum, San Sebastian Reports Letter from the Basque Country Duncan Wheeler The Guggenheim franchise is now seen as the cause of gentrification and rising property prices. Nor does it help matters that the museum has been unable to fulfil its initial impression to local stakeholders and politicians of reclaiming Pablo Picasso's Guernica, 1937, for the Basque Country. Pallavi Paul, How Love Moves, 2023 Reports Letter from Sharjah Chris McCormack It is the serious scope of the Biennial that forces a response to not only meet its invitation to explore the depth of the work on show, but to also consider the limitations still present across the UAE. William Kentridge, Second-hand Reading, 2013, estimate £15,000–20,000, sold for £158,750 Salerooms Fluctuating Values Colin Gleadell One must look back to the financial crash of 2009 for a lower total for London's winter sales. But this was not a crash: the total was pretty much as estimated. Richard Prince, (Untitled, Dylan), 2014 Artlaw A Complete Unknown Henry Lydiate Some artists consciously appropriate an entire work of another artist into their own creation. Such borrowings are designed to be self-evident (even though there may be changes of scale or medium or colour, as with Richard Prince's three Bob Dylan canvases) and are intended to engage the spectator in intellectual consideration of the original work in its new context. Have Art Monthly delivered to your door   Read every issue ever published right now Two Minutes   Reader Survey If you are reading this, you are exactly the kind of person who could help! Please spend two minutes completing a brief reader survey for Art Monthly. All responses are much appreciated – and 100% anonymous. Quarterly Subscriptions Never Miss an Issue Art Monthly now offers recurring quarterly print subscriptions to help spread payments. All our Direct Debit subscriptions benefit from special pricing discounts against standard subscriptions. Quarterly print subscriptions start at only £13 Art Calendar Paul Trevor, Anti-racists gather to block route of National Front demonstration, New Cross Road, London, August 1977, from 'Resistance' In Conversation with Lanre Bakare and Lisa Anderson, 4pm 27 Apr, Turner Contemporary, Margate Selected Events Artist & Radical Book Fair G39, Cardiff, Sat 29 Mar 10.00am The Stimming Pool Screening Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Tue 1 Apr 7.00pm In Loving Memory of Work: The UK Miners' Strike Panel Tate Britain, London, Wed 2 Apr 7.00pm Who Does Art Make Visible? Panel Discussion Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Thu 3 Apr 6.30pm Brazilian Modernisms and Beyond: Symposium Royal Academy of Arts, London, Fri 4 Apr 10.00am Unfolding the Sarong: Batik Workshop Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Fri 4 Apr 6.30pm Gelliplate with Nicky Harwood The Box, Plymouth, Sat 5 Apr 12.00pm Daria Blum Performance: I'm So Disappointed In You Tate Modern, London, Sat 5 Apr 7.00pm Talk: Exploring Guru Nanak's Philosophy of Oneness by Arvind-Pal S Mandair Barbican, London, Sun 6 Apr 9.45am Easter Family Activities: Spaces of Belonging Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Tue 8 Apr 10.00am Art Together Workshop MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, Thu 10 Apr 12.00pm Curator-led Tour Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Fri 11 Apr 1.00pm Creative Wellbeing: Riso Print Two Queens, Leicester, Fri 11 Apr 1.00pm Japanese Tea Ceremony Free Demonstration British Museum, London, Fri 11 Apr 3.00pm Artist Talk: Ali Cherri Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Sat 12 Apr 2.00pm Change Makers Tours Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Sun 13 Apr 3.00pm Leigh Bowery Panel Discussion Tate Modern, London, Wed 16 Apr 6.30pm Bragod: Spring Releases Chapter, Cardiff, Sat 19 Apr 8.00pm Ilana Halperin: Felt Events in Conversation Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Tue 22 Apr 12.45pm CEREMONY Festival of Performance Copeland Gallery, London, Wed 23 Apr 7.00pm Vega Trails Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Wed 23 Apr 7.30pm With Graphic Intent: German and Austrian Modernist Works on Paper Courtauld Institute, London, Thu 24 Apr 5.00pm Photo Book Reading Club: I Carry Her Photo With Me The Photographers' Gallery, London, Fri 25 Apr 6.30pm In Conversation with Lanre Bakare and Lisa Anderson Turner Contemporary, Margate, Sun 27 Apr 4.00pm Here is a Gale Warning Late Event Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Wed 30 Apr 6.00pm Lanre Bakare Book Launch: We Were There Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Wed 30 Apr 6.30pm A Thousand Small Stories: Artist-Led Exhibition Tour Autograph, London, Thu 1 May 6.30pm Selected Exhibition Openings Darkness Visible Apt, London, opens Thu 27 Mar | PV 27 Mar Majd Abdel Hamid Cell Project Space, London, opens Fri 28 Mar | PV 27 Mar Kentaro Okumura Vardaxoglou, London, opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 4 Apr Tunga Lisson Gallery Lisson st, London, opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr Pierre Knop Pilar Corrias Conduit St, London, opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr Songs before Sunrise Sprüth Magers, London, opens Fri 4 Apr | PV 3 Apr Touch Points, Craig Delaney South Square, Bradford, opens Sat 5 Apr | PV 4 Apr Ralph Whitehead Inspection Pit, East Harting, opens Sat 5 Apr | PV 4 Apr Transvangarde October Gallery, London, opens Thu 10 Apr | PV 9 Apr The Protagonist Belmacz Gallery, London, opens Fri 11 Apr | PV 10 Apr Funeral Kingsgate Workshops, London, opens Fri 11 Apr | PV 10 Apr Richard Kenton Webb Mirror, Plymouth, opens Sat 12 Apr | PV 11 Apr Dafna Talmor Sid Motion Gallery, London, opens Sat 12 Apr | PV 11 Apr Eileen Perrier, Dianne Minnicucci Autograph, London, opens Thu 17 Apr | PV 16 Apr Remus Grecu Beers Contemporary, London, opens Thu 17 Apr | PV 17 Apr Nicola Singh Cubitt, London, opens Thu 24 Apr | PV 24 Apr Oliver Osborne Union Pacific, London, opens Thu 24 Apr | PV 24 Apr Nicholas Marschner Alice Amati, London, opens Fri 25 Apr | PV 24 Apr Tris Vonna-Michell Moon Grove, Manchester, opens Fri 25 Apr | PV 24 Apr Tom K Kemp Two Queens, Leicester, opens Sat 26 Apr | PV 25 Apr Brian Calvin Corvi-Mora, London, opens Sat 26 Apr | PV 25 Apr Image as Trace Brunette Coleman, London, opens Sat 26 Apr | PV 26 Apr Selected Digital Resources Afropunk Countercultures, Autograph Collective Observations, Collective  Introduction, Crip Cinema Archive  Permanent Beta, Fotomuseum  Moving Image Programme, Frith Street Gallery  Guy Oliver Film, FVU Watch  Decolonising Black British Gospel Music: A Musicological Experiment with Robert Beckford, Gasworks  Antechamber, Gossamer Fog  London's Arts Laboratories and the 1960s Avant-Garde, LUX  MattFlix Archive, Matt's Gallery  Palestine Reading Resources, The Mosaic Rooms  Black British History Portal, The National Archives  Rhizome, New Museum  Ukrainian. Photographies, Open Eye Gallery  Artists' Moving Image Network, Pavilion Video Art Streaming Service, Pérez Art Museum Miami  Rallying the Commons, Performing Borders Screen Walks, The Photographers' Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur Unthinking Photography, The Photographers' Gallery Online Resources, The NewBridge Project  Art Branch of Library Stack, NN Contemporary  Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Serpentine  Free to Forage, Tape Collective  Gallery Maps   London and UK Gallery maps Find local shows with the Art Monthly gallery maps! Podcasts   Art Monthly on the Radio Art Monthly hosts a show to discuss the current issue at 8pm on the second Monday every month on Resonance 104.4 FM , with the show repeated at 10am the following Wednesday. 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