Every single month, the art CANNOT be stopped.
"Interview
Inside a Crowd
Beatrice Gibson interviewed by María Palacios Cruz
It’s a crowd of voices, from the people in the work, the ones who are alive, to the ones who are no longer with us ... I can only do what I’m doing if I’m inside this assembly, inside a crowd. I can’t do it alone.
Feature
Art & Ufology
Jamie Sutclffe argues that we have been rendered susceptible to the irrational by cynical, politically motivated misdirection
The logic goes: when media feeds are saturated with the diffuse threats of proxy war combat, the existential risks of deregulated AI development, resource scarcity and the potential presence of extraterrestrial life on earth, the attention of the electorate becomes distracted, confused, pliable. ‘Reality’ itself becomes a medium to be sculpted.
Feature
Who was Sigmar Polke?
Michael Archer reencounters the work of the elusive German artist 50 years after he first came across it
Sigmar Polke’s discontent with the Art Informel and Tachiste-oriented art taught in the academy manifested in his rejection of the idea that art could serve as an aesthetic salve to West Germany’s troubled conscience.
Profile
Olu Ogunnaike
Phoebe Cripps
The more you see of your reflected self, the less you see of the image. My whiteness enters the night shots of Olu Ogunnaike’s friends and family, interrupting the intimate conversation between the images across a narrow space, ineluctably positioning my perception.
Editorial
The Last Word
Some argue that social media has ushered in a new ‘post-literate’ age but arguably, since the invention of the Gutenberg Press six centuries ago, technological changes have always altered the way people read.
Whatever the school riots that engulfed France last month developed into, the students who originally took to the streets to protest are clearly still passionate about education and, presumably, about reading. A society that does not value literacy, including visual literacy, is vulnerable to tyranny.
Letters
Strike at Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths University Strikers outline the effects of senior management’s proposed cuts.
Manifesta Omission
Penelope Curtis is surprised that AM’s review of Manifesta did not make clear the exhibition’s central premise: that each presentation took place in a church.
Artnotes
Kemi Axes Arts
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch pledges to halve the UK’s culture budget; the Labour government will retain free entry to museums; the Local Government Association proposes a new framework for arts investment; the Art Circle of Congolese Planation Workers forms a new collection of donated artworks to support the reforestation of postcolonial land; storm damage afflicts the Uffizi and the Venice Biennale; NY MoMA faces renewed protests over a disgraced trustee; Getty Images files for bankruptcy; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more."
