{"product_id":"art-monthly-issue-496","title":"Art Monthly Issue 496","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery single month, the art CANNOT be stopped\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Close Encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsaac Julien interviewed by Tom Denman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think one of the problems of today is a tendency to crystallise meaning when it comes to images of power, in how they are constructed and interpreted, whereas I am seeking to trouble such images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond Cancel Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah E James asks why the onus of taking a political stand continues to fall on artists rather than on cultural institutions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHassan Khan is unambivalent when he outlines what he sees as art’s critical role in our current times of genocide: ‘To make the taboo visible in a way that is uncensorable is for me at this moment one of the most important political acts art can do.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMegan Plunkett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabriella Nugent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMegan Plunkett interrogates our relationship, and that of photography, with objects: she works with props, as well as found objects, consumer detritus and film industry replicas, to circumvent established systems of ownership and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo WAD?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 15th of April was officially, according to UNESCO, World Art Day, though it passed with little fanfare here in the UK – symbolic of a general neglect of the visual arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before the cost-of-living crisis in the UK morphed into the international permacrisis that we are currently living through, the arts were already in a parlous state.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Monthly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56864732250490,"sku":null,"price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/36037F46-0FBA-4022-8EE0-2FC006A1024B.jpg?v=1778161230","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/art-monthly-issue-496","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}