Recently added articles from Art Monthly:
Mad love: Elizabeth Price interviewed by Paul O'Neill.(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PAUL O'NEILL: WHEN I FIRST SAW YOUR WORK IN THE MID 1990S, there was an interest in the legacy of late 1960s conceptualist practices, and how time and its performative aspect could be made material in the resultant artwork. Can you tell me about your ...
Gothic v Gothick: Gilda Williams on the embarrassing, campy cousin of the uncanny.(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I COUNTED FIVE GOTHIC-THEMED GROUP EXHIBITIONS HAUNTING LONDON OVER THE PAST YEAR, 'THE GOTHIC' EVIDENTLY VYING FOR A PLACE WITHIN ART DISCOURSE AS THE DARK SIBLING OF ASSOCIATED TERMS SUCH AS 'THE UNCANNY' AND 'THE ABJECT'. These exhibitions gather ...
Another fine mess: Sally O'Reilly ponders themed group shows.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOW GLORIOUS TO HAVE TRANSPORT LAID ON, IN THE FORM OF ART, TO CARRY US TO ALL CORNERS OF THE AESTHETIC, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL, FANTASTICAL AND ABSURDIST UNIVERSES. In any one exhibition we might be invited to think about Albanian Communist ...
Thinking the unthinkable.(Editorial)
May 01, 2009 ... It is hard to believe that it was 30 years ago--on 4 May 1979 to be precise--that Margaret Thatcher came to power. Little did the electorate then know that it was entering an era that would not only consign Labour to the wilderness for 18 years but also see the end of consensus politics, ...
Pots and kettles.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Apparently I have been too harsh on Postmodernism (Recovering Radicalism, AM323). This all seems a bit pots and kettles to me. It's like starting a campaign against bullying and finding yourself accused of victimisation. Perhaps I need to clarify a couple of things. First, my ...
The art of the possible.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... There can be few people working in art education who wouldn't agree with many of the views expressed in the letters written by Byam Shaw students and in your Artnotes column (AM325). No one, after all, is going to quarrel with the desirability of more teaching, more space, more ...
A fine art.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... While many of the views expressed by Byam Shaw students in last month's published letters (AM325) defending the importance and value of fine art education are laudable, some of the points raised suggest a lack of awareness and reveal a few troubling assumptions concerning the significant ...
Lost passport.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Following his curating of 'Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection' at the newly reopened Whitechapel Gallery, Michael Craig-Martin laid into the British Council over its recent failure to organise overseas exhibitions. Craig-Martin discovered that, in the wake of ...
Temporary use of vacant sites.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Community secretary Hazel Blears and culture secretary Andy Burnham have announced a 3m pot of small grants of up to 1,000 for the creative use of vacant shops, with art exhibitions being one of their suggestions. Recognising the damaging impact of empty retail units on town centres, ...
Grow your own art community.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Property developers have long understood that an influx of artists to a down-at-heel area will help the neighbourhood to thrive and, ultimately, drive up property prices. But now there are signs that smart developers, instead of latching onto areas where artists are already based, are ...
Wage demands.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
May 01, 2009 ... WAGE, or Working Artists and the Greater Economy (tagline: 'We demand payment for making the world more interesting.'), held its most recent meeting in New York and outlined plans for greater renumeration for artists whose work supports large, publicly funded institutions. Minutes from the ...
Student/space ratios.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Yet another example (see Letters) of the challenge that universities face when accepting a growing intake of students each year comes with news that Southampton Solent University is closing its long-established Millais Gallery. The space will instead be used for teaching facilities for the ...
Gallery news.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)
May 01, 2009 ... Calvert 22 in East London is a new, not-for-profit foundation whose purpose is to exhibit art from Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. It will open its 5,500sqft space in Shoreditch this month with 'Past Future Perfect', an exhibition of five Russian artists curated by the former ...
Commissions.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Maya Lin's Storm King Wavefield)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, opens a vast four-acre commission this month. Maya Lin's Storm King Wavefield, her largest site-specific earthwork, consists of several 300ft-long waveform hills undulating across one of the centre's open fields. This is the third and ...
Commission to collect.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(new Annual Award for museums will be launched by Contemporary Art Society)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... The Contemporary Art Society is launching a new Annual Award for museums, providing 60,000 for a new artwork to be commissioned for the winning museum's collection. The award is open to all its member museums, which are invited to propose commissions by internationally renowned artists who ...
Funds raised.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Institute of Contemporary Arts fund raising)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... The London ICA's recent celebrity-studded gala event, whose purpose was both to raise funds to support emerging artists and to extend the outreach of contemporary art to younger audiences and those with learning or other disabilities, raised an impressive 180,000 [pounds sterling]. Top lot ...
Prizes.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Awards list)
May 01, 2009 ... The Swiss video and installation artist Pipilotti Rist (who will be interviewed by Michael Bracewell at Tate Modern as part of Art Monthly's Talking Art event in June--see our website for more details) has been awarded the biannual Joan Miro Prize, organised by the Joan Miro Foundation in ...
Events.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Calendar)
May 01, 2009 ... Merzdorf 1923-1945 is a conference/workshop on Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau projects at the Royal College of Art, 1-8 May, with tickets costing 25/15 [pounds sterling]. The event is organised by the Lancashire-based arts trust, Littoral, with a focus on the issues around restoring and curating ...
Archive action.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Henry Moore Foundation acquires archive of the Public Art Development Trust)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... The archive of the Public Art Development Trust, which existed from 1983 until its funding was cut in 2004, has been acquired by the Henry Moore Foundation. Items in the archive include proposals for public artworks that were never produced, including Julian Opie's pitch for the Diana ...
iTate.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)(Tate Modern makes audio and video file available for download)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Tate has now joined museums such as MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum and the Walker Art Center, as well as heavyweight universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Open University, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley and Yale in offering free educational material through Apple's iTunes U, the 'mobile ...