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“If the first YouTube post, ‘Me at the zoo’, has become worthy of the V&A Museum collection, it is because it condenses with ruthless intensity the conditions of attention, representation and consumption that have come to shape art and communication in the first quarter of the millennium.”
‘Me at the Zoo’ – Giovanni Aloi
June Art Monthly
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[image: Jawed Karim, ‘Me at the zoo’, 2005]
“It is ironic that Benvenuto Chavajay’s peripatetic performance honouring Miguel Ángel Asturias was blocked by Parisian authorities at the grave of Asturias, who was also a wanderer, expelled from Guatemala in 1954 and stripped of his citizenship for opposing a US-led coup.”
‘Art and ID’ – Bob Dickinson observes how, for many, the debate around ID cards remains a political struggle to achieve the right to an identity
[image: Benvenuto Chavajay, ‘Corn Man’, 2020]
“Anne Truitt’s anomalous sculptural idiom – a minimalistic formalism – points in two directions which seem mutually exclusive: ‘standing’ but ‘intactly’, it complies with sculpture’s definitional conditions to escape their confines.”
‘On Sculpture: Against Standing’ – Mark Prince argues that sculpture’s once default position as a surrogate for presence has been challenged, taking it in new and more interesting directions
June Art Monthly
[Anne Truitt’s studio, 1979]
“Each reader re-authors the text in the act of reading, and I was fascinated by the way agency was distributed within a group and between human and machine.”
‘Disfluency’ – Anna Barham interviewed by Lizzie Lloyd
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[image: Anna Barham, ‘Out of the gravel’, 2022/26]
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[image: Anna Barham performance, ‘Writing Art Writing Art Writing’, 1.30pm 27 June, Spike Island, Bristol]
Art Monthly, Issue 497, June 2026
• Anna Barham – interviewed by Lizzie Lloyd
• Against Standing – Mark Prince
• Art and ID – Bob Dickinson
• Me at the Zoo – Giovanni Aloi
• Lydia Ourahmane – profile by Chris McCormack
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[cover: Diana Kaumba, ‘Legendary Glamma – High Fashion in the African Landscape’, 2024]
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“Megan 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.”
Megan Plunkett – Profile by Gabriella Nugent
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[image: Megan Plunkett, ‘Special Friend 14’, 2018]
“When Donald Trump was inaugurated as president it seemed that conspiracy, and its particular modes of constructing stories from reality, had officially moved from the margins to the centre.”
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‘Conspiracy’ – Anna Dezeuze asks whether it is possible for art to turn the tide on ‘alt-right’ conspiracy theories
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[image: Cady Noland, ‘Percussion and Cartridge Revolvers’, 1984]
“Hassan 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.’”
‘Beyond Cancel Culture’ – Sarah E James asks why the onus of taking a political stand continues to fall on artists rather than on cultural institutions
May Art Monthly
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[image: Hassan Khan, ‘Little Castles’, 2025]
“I 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.”
‘Close Encounters’ – Isaac Julien interviewed by Tom Denman
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[image: Isaac Julien, ‘Metamorphosis I (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)’, 2025]
