The Urgency of Art
Magazine
The Urgency of Art is a British bimonthly published magazine that features artists worldwide who dare to confront reality, dare to question, and dare to imagine. We are looking for works and reflections that capture the pressing issues of our moment, whether you document environmental distress through painting, interpret fluid identities through sculpture, or explore future possibilities through new media.
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The Urgency of Art examines how art navigates innovation and tradition in a globalized, digital age, revealing its enduring power to connect, challenge, and shape human experience.
ISSN 2755-8924
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Artists, Curators, Galleries and Museums
Tradition, Transmission, Innovation: A New Route for Chinese Opera
Jingkun Chinese Arts clearly articulates a practice that treats Chinese opera as a living tradition, moving from classical repertoire through education to innovative, cross-disciplinary performance.
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Treatment Menu by Gigi
Treatment Menu reclaims love as a risky, ongoing practice of care and labour—reimagining the gallery as a beauty salon where contemporary artists explore love’s vulnerability, commodification, and healing through lived experience and material rituals.
Artists, Curators, Galleries and Museums
Founder of Steingold Contemporary
Joanna Steingold
When I founded the consultancy, I had to recalibrate and re-discover my love of art, based more so on personal instinct, a visceral reaction to the work rather than from purely commercially motivated reasoning.
Artist
Yula Kim: An Ecological Storyteller
Yula Kim (she/her) is a Korea-born artist based in London who have lived in Asia (South Korea, China), Polynesia (Hawaii), Africa (Uganda), and Europe (UK). These cross-cultural and environmental experiences have deeply influenced her artistic vision.
Artists, Curators, Galleries and Museums
The Pantler's Retion
Jingkun Chinese Arts clearly articulates a practice that treats Chinese opera as a living tradition, moving from classical repertoire through education to innovative, cross-disciplinary performance.
Artists
Norah Fallon
Norah Fallon is a UK-based sculptor whose practice centres on transformation, ecological responsibility, and the active agency of materials. Working with recycled clay and horse manure, she creates unfired sculptural forms that are designed to change over time rather than remain fixed.
