Art Monthly Talk Show

Tom Denman considers the work of Leah Clements, including her coming exhibition at Peer in London, and Bob Dickinson discusses his feature ‘Art and Contested Memory’, which warns of the need to preserve collective memory against attempts by the far-right regimes to erase it.

Mark prince argues that in our social media saturated culture, to photograph or film something is becoming a substitute for that same experience.

Chris Clarke on Austria’s steirischer herbst festival; Tosia Leniarska reports from the Survival Kit festival in Latvia; Virginia Whiles discusses the pairing of Mona Hatoum and Alberto Giacometti’s work at the Barbican.

Lillian Wilkie reports on the art scene in Barnsley; Dave Beech explains the lack of discourse around working-class culture in the art world.

Morgan Falconer asks whether contemporary art is in decline and, if so, why; Tom Denman wonders why there is deafening silence in the art world as the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms.