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.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 173
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Morgan Falconer & Tom Denman
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…
00:58:09 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Morgan Quaintance
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.
00:51:15 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Rachel Pronger, Peter Suchin, Henry Broome, Elizabeth Fullerton
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 gent…
01:09:57 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Maja and Reuben Fowkes discuss the lessons we may learn from trees, and how artists can be their voice in this Pyrocene age.
00:59:55 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Jamie Sutcliffe
Jamie Sutcliffe discusses artists’ tabletop role-playing games. Hosted by Matt Hale.
00:58:48 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Erika Balsom, Ben Burbridge & Dan Kidner
Erika Balsom on John Smith’s latest film ‘Being John Smith’, Ben Burbridge on rave culture as an unfulfilled promise for a new politics of the left and Dan Kidner reviews the Deep Time festival at Fr…
00:58:26 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Mark Prince
Mark Prince discusses postwar US modernist abstraction as a form of cultural protectionism.
01:00:01 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Bob Dickinson & Tom Denman
Bob Dickinson discusses artists who connect the sleep crisis to the climate crisis, while Tom Denman reviews the ‘Towards New Worlds’ exhibition at MIMA in Middlesbrough.
00:57:20 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Michael Kurtz, Lauren Velvick & Sarah E James
Michael Kurtz discusses the work of Delcy Morelos; Lauren Velvick on Roy Claire Potter’s ‘The Wastes’; Sarah E James considers exhibition formats that offer more complex models than those put forward…
00:56:27 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Vaishna Surjid, Amna Malik & Henry Broome
Vaishna Surjid discusses Soumya Sankar Bose’s exhibition ‘Braiding Dusk and Dawn’ at Deflina Foundation in London; Amna Malik reviews Permindar Kaur’s exhibition ‘Nothing is Fixed’ at John Hansard Ga…
00:51:59 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
Mark Prince
Mark Prince argues that digitalisation adds another dimension to debates about intention and production in a discussion that covers photography, painting and sculpture and covers artists ranging from…
00:54:07 |
Mon 10 Jun 2024
Tom Hastings, Sam Keogh & Luisa Lorenzo Corna
Tom Hastings, Sam Keogh and Luisa Lorenzo Corna discuss the attempts to suppress political protest and artists’ voices in the light of the current war in Gaza.
00:45:36 |
Mon 13 May 2024
Bob Dickinson
Bob Dickinson surveys the rise of authoritarian rule and charts feminist art practices that resist such forces.
00:59:33 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
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.
00:57:06 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
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.
00:59:16 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
Michael Hampton
Michael Hampton argues that auto-destruction is the default condition of all visual art.
00:57:40 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
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.
00:59:55 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
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 proce…
00:55:39 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
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 re…
00:58:32 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
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.
00:59:46 |
Mon 10 Jul 2023
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