Art Monthly Talk Show Art Monthly

Bob Dickinson surveys the rise of authoritarian rule and charts feminist art practices that resist such forces.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.