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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 1d

“Aleksandra Pryegalinska has recorded children employing the same speech forms used for interacting with smart speakers when talking to their friends – abbreviated, demanding and with few niceties. Conversely, another study recorded children talking to digital agents as if they were human.”

A portrait photograph of a robot in Geisha make-up.

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‘Art and Obsolescence’ – Bob Dickinson points out that artists’ long-term fascination with obsolescence has turned darker with the development of new technologies

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[image: Aisling Phelan, ‘Goodbye Body’, 2025]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 2d

“Perhaps a deeper understanding of obsolescence can change the experience of art itself, creating glimpses of what appears to be a parallel world in which it is possible for obsolescence to contain possibility.”

A humanoid robot with a realistic human face lying on the floor.

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‘Uneasy About ESEA’ – Morgan Quaintance argues that the homogenising effect of the ESEA label risks blocking a transformative and reciprocal exchange between global regions

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[image: Momoe i manu ae ala atae’e Tasker, ‘Protest banner for West Papua’, 2024]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 3d

“The flaw of binary models, which are used in geographical and community-based distinctions to cast the West as negative other, is that they come bundled with a Manichaean moral imperative: the body defining itself against the West must be made to stand for almost everything that the West is not.”

A gallery view of an appliqué protest banner proclaiming: ‘Solidarity, Liberation, Self-determination. Free West Papua’.

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‘Looking Back in Anger’ – Naeem Mohaiemen interviewed by Amna Malik

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[image: Naeem Mohaiemen, ‘Through a Mirror, Darkly’, 2025]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 4d

“Why had I never heard about Jackson State where, in that same month of 1970, there had been a shooting of African-American students? The two black students who died at Jackson State are not well remembered compared with the fatal event around the deployment of the National Guard at Kent State.”

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October art jobs, residencies, grants, exhibitions and other artists’ opportunities, plus art listings, podcasts and more in the latest newsletter:

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[image: Suzanne Treister, ‘Are You Dreaming?’, 1991–92, from the series ‘Fictional Videogame Stills’]

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Art Monthly, Issue 490, Oct 25

• Naeem Mohaiemen interviewed by Amna Malik

• Uneasy About ESEA – Morgan Quaintance

• On Obsolescence – Bob Dickinson

• On Magazines – Chris Townsend

• Karimah Ashadu – Profile by Kathryn Lloyd

+ news, views, reviews…

cover: Karimah Ashadu, ‘Machine Boys’, 2024

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‘Kaari Upson: Dollhouse’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk – Elizabeth Fullerton

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[image: Kaari Upson, ‘Dollhouse’]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 16d

“Kaari Upson developed ‘The Larry Project’ after she snuck into the abandoned mansion of her parents’ neighbour, a wannabe Hugh Hefner, and discovered a trove of dream journals and photographs detailing his aspirations to a playboy mogul lifestyle.”

A gallery view that features drawings hung on the walls and a central sculpture that consists of two folded and crushed leather sofas.

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‘Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung’ • ‘Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good’, Goldsmiths CCA, London – Daniel Culpan

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[image: Milly Thompson, ‘White wine Lanzarote’, 2015]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 17d

“In their paean to hedonism, Milly Thompson’s works nonetheless offer a feminist edge: that of the viewpoint so often either neglected or mocked of a middle-aged woman.”

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‘Permindar Kaur: Mirror, Mirror • Prem Sahib: Doubles’, Pitzhanger Manor, London – Paul Carey-Kent

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[image: Prem Sahib, ‘Apotropaic I’, 2023]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 24d

“Sir John Soane’s out-of-town house is a particularly distinctive location, and Sahib is well-placed to make an unusually localised response to it. Born in 1982, he grew up nearby, and has fed the area into his autobiographically infused work over the past decade.”

A sculpture consisting of two freestanding hoodies, the back garment resting its sleeves on the shoulders of the one in front.

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‘Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II’, South London Gallery – Andrew Chesher

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[image: Leonardo Drew, ‘Ubiquity II’]

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“What is this tableau of wreckage? Recent media images of Gaza's destruction come to mind. So, too, does the devastation wrought some two decades ago by Hurricane Katrina, especially to black working-class communities in New Orleans. But Drew speaks in formal terms.”

A large gallery space is filled with debris that forms two pyramidal stacks against opposing walls.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 29d

‘Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams’, Courtauld Gallery, London – Matthew Bowman

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[image: Eva Hesse, ‘No Title’, 1966]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · 29d

“In Eva Hesse’s work there are certainly body-like forms apparent: aspherical forms ensnared within netted bags in one work and the odd couple of a quasi-phallus conjoined with a quasi-testis in another work certainly allude in that direction. Yet this is a case where caution should be exercised.”

A sculpture featuring three ovoid forms hanging in nets that are pinned to the wall.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · Sep 10

‘Rebecca Horn: Cutting Through the Past’, Castello di Rivoli, Turin – Maria Walsh

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[image: Rebecca Horn, ‘Cutting Through the Past’, installation view]

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · Sep 10

“As happens with retrospectives when the artist is deceased, there is now a rush to reframe Rebecca Horn’s work in terms of contemporary themes, such as nonhuman kinships. While Horn did stage interactions between herself and a cockatoo, this studio performance is arguably centred on mimicry.”

A view of a large gallery space with a mirrored back wall set with a central window looking out onto trees beyond; the centre of the room is occupied by a low plinth featuring sculptural elements that include bare tree branches.

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · Sep 9

Maryam Tafakory – Profile by Luisa Lorenza Corna

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[image: Maryam Tafakory, ‘Razah-del’, 2024]

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