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Art Monthly Magazine
Art Monthly is a monthly British art magazine dedicated to Contemporary Art. It was founded in 1976 by Peter Townsend and Jack Wendler. Peter Townsend was formerly the editor of Studio International. Jack Wendler formerly ran a gallery which specialised in Minimalism and [Conceptual art]. The magazine is renowned for its left-wing stance.

The first issue of Art Monthly carried an obituary for Marcel Broodthaers designed by Richard Hamilton  and included an artist’s page by Carl Andre  in response to the ‘bricks at the Tate’ controversy at the time.

Art Monthly was the first magazine to identify and debate the ‘[yBa]’ phenomenon — the term was coined by Simon Ford in a feature entititled ‘Myth Making’ published back in March 1996 — and it was one of the first publications to investigate fully the implications of Charles Saatchi's  contribution of to the British art scene in the feature ‘Sense and Sensation’ by Art Monthly Editor Patricia Bickers in November 1997.