Longlist 2024:

Here is the longlist for the 2024 Observer / Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.

Writers were challenged to produce an 800-word review of a recently released book, film, album, concert, exhibition, ballet, play, TV show, online stream, performance art piece or anything else that could be covered by a newspaper’s arts review pages.

Entries closed on 29th February 2024, and our judges have chosen a longlist of 30 who remain in contention to win this year’s Prize.

The shortlist will be announced at the end of April 2024, with a grand winners’ announcement on 22 May 2024.

The longlist

Alexander Frank Cohen on Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Alice Hughes on Anatomy Of A Fall
Alice Kent on Brian Dillon Affinities
Anna Bogutskaya on Past Lives
Anna McGee on the depository of Florence Civic Museums
Cerise Louisa Andrews on The Boy and the Heron
Chris Allnutt on Chants of Sennaar
Daniel Goldstraw on The Zone of Interest
Eddy Gibb on Creature
Emma Jones on Trevor Yeung: Soft Ground
Harry Cochrane on Ned Denny & Patricia Smith
Ian Ellison on The Nonconformists
Iona Glen on Bring No Clothes
Jack Barron on Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess
Katie Tobin on Ben Lerner’s The Lights
Lucy Hicks Beach on Women Dressing Women
MZ Adnan on Raúl Cañibano: Human Landscapes
Maisie Allen on Beth Steel: Till The Stars Come Down
Oscar Jelley on Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Patricia Anne Emison on NT Live: Vanya
Rachel Ashcroft on Blue Eye Samurai
Rhian Williams on The Girl Who Forgets How To Walk & Salthouse
Ross McIndoe on Asteroid City
Sophie Holloway on Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective
Susanna Morton on Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake
Tajudeen Alabi on Succession
Teh Ming Li on Thriller 40, Malaysia
Tom Glover on Below Deck Sailing Yacht
Varvara Sycheva on Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Congratulations to all of our longlistees. Stand by for shortlist news…

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