Art Monthly Talk Show

Morgan Quaintance and Laura McLean-Ferris on Kara Walker at Camden Art Centre, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and the Lyon Biennale.

Paul O’Kane on the rhetoric of transparency in an age of self-surveilling social media.

George Vasey and Maria Walsh discuss feminist self-portraiture as well as art and the new objecthood.

Morgan Quaintance and Dave Beech discuss post-racialism plus art as economic anomaly.

Dean Kenning, Margareta Kern and Sophie J Williamson discuss art’s collusion with unquestioned capital.

Patricia Bickers, Daniella Rose King and Chris McCormack discuss the real lines dividing art’s insiders and outsiders, with reference to the Venice Biennale exhibition ‘The Encyclopedic Palace’ and the Hayward Gallery’s ‘The Alternative Guide to the Universe’.

Christopher Townsend on the legacy of the Pictures Generation and MTV.

Bob Dickinson, Jennifer Thatcher and George Vasey discuss feminism and inequality in the art world, and also turn their attention to recent exhibitions in London and Manchester.

Felicity Allen, David Barrett, Dave Beech and Patricia Bickers discuss art education: the agenda behind funding cuts, the tension between creativity and bureaucracy, and the disruption of the higher education market.

Reuben Fowkes discusses the return of the East European; Paul O’Kane ponders art and being in an age of technocapitalism; and Mark Harris reflects on Duchamp et al at the Barbican.

Sophie J Williamson discusses the use of viral images within grassroots popular protests, with particular reference to the case of Khaled Mohamed Saeed, whose death in 2010 sparked the Egyptian revolution.

Omar Kholeif and Morgan Quaintance discuss the culture of online curating and the phenomenon of virtual lives.

Christopher Townsend, Kate Villevoye and John Lowe reflect upon the work of filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who celebrated his 90th birthday in December 2012 while exhibiting four retrospective exhibitions around the world. Mekas is interviewed in the February 2013 issue Art Monthly.

Michael Hampton and Ajay Hothi discuss recent exhibitions that have presented art in pastoral settings and the influential 1960s magazine-in-a-box, Aspen.

John Douglas Millar examines the literary form Conceptual Writing and its connection with visual art, while Colin Perry considers recent exhibitions that raise questions about art and its benefactors.

Paul O’Kane discusses the act of making in the process of producing art and Sophie J Williamson argues that contemporary artists such as Christoph Schlingensief and Ai Weiwei tap into the spirit of the ancient Greek Cynics for political protest.

Jennifer Thatcher and Morgan Quaintance discuss Tino Sehgal's work for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and Claire Bishop's book on relational aesthetics.

Nick Warner and Chris Fite-Wassilak discuss recent exhibitions in London and Norwich including a collaborative gallery exhibition between two net artists who have not met each other in person.

Maria Walsh discusses Jo Spence’s photography and Emily Roysdon’s online performance for Tate Modern, Cherry Smyth discusses Nancy Holt's earthworks and Mikhail Karikis’s film installation at Wapping Project.

Sophie J Williamson discusses curating beauty after Gustave Flaubert, Peter Suchin on the collected writings of artist-educator Jon Thompson and Morgan Quaintance defends the term ‘practice’.