Art Monthly Talk Show podcast

Art Monthly Talk Show

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.

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.

 

#160

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. ... Read more

11 Mar 2024

57 MINS

57:06

11 Mar 2024


#159

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. ... Read more

12 Feb 2024

59 MINS

59:16

12 Feb 2024


#158

Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton argues that auto-destruction is the default condition of all visual art. ... Read more

11 Dec 2023

57 MINS

57:40

11 Dec 2023


#157

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. ... Read more

13 Nov 2023

59 MINS

59:55

13 Nov 2023


#156

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. ... Read more

09 Oct 2023

55 MINS

55:39

09 Oct 2023


#155

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 both modernist and neoliberal cultures, which has undermined social cohesion in art and society. ... Read more

11 Sep 2023

58 MINS

58:32

11 Sep 2023


#154

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. ... Read more

10 Jul 2023

59 MINS

59:46

10 Jul 2023


#153

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. ... Read more

12 Jun 2023

52 MINS

52:39

12 Jun 2023


#152

Larne Abse Gogarty & Rebecca Jarman

Larne Abse Gogarty critiques the return of figurative painting and Rebecca Jarman reports on the São Paulo art scene. ... Read more

08 May 2023

55 MINS

55:04

08 May 2023


#151

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. ... Read more

10 Apr 2023

58 MINS

58:27

10 Apr 2023


#150

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. ... Read more

13 Mar 2023

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:03

13 Mar 2023


#149

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. ... Read more

13 Feb 2023

55 MINS

55:45

13 Feb 2023


#148

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. ... Read more

12 Dec 2022

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:13

12 Dec 2022


#147

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. ... Read more

14 Nov 2022

56 MINS

56:10

14 Nov 2022


#146

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’. ... Read more

10 Oct 2022

58 MINS

58:41

10 Oct 2022


#145

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. ... Read more

12 Sep 2022

58 MINS

58:15

12 Sep 2022


#144

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. ... Read more

13 Jun 2022

56 MINS

56:57

13 Jun 2022


#143

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. ... Read more

09 May 2022

49 MINS

49:38

09 May 2022


#142

Bob Dickinson

Bob Dickinson discusses the ways in which artists have attempted to engage with the legacies of trauma. ... Read more

11 Apr 2022

57 MINS

57:33

11 Apr 2022


#141

Michaële Cutaya & Chloe Carroll

Michaële Cutaya on the importance of surface over depth, and Chloe Carroll on the role of the monument. ... Read more

14 Mar 2022

58 MINS

58:16

14 Mar 2022