An online platform for writing and research on international contemporary art, published by The Burlington Magazine. 

Burlington Contemporary is an online platform for writing and research on international contemporary art, published by The Burlington Magazine. 

The site, which is free to access, publishes weekly reviews and articles, written by leading critics, artists and scholars.

The journal section of the site is an open-access peer-reviewed online journal, published twice a year. This presents cutting-edge research on recent art, written to the highest academic standards, yet accessible to a wide international audience. 

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The Burlington Magazine was founded in London in 1903 by a group of art historians including Roger Fry and Bernard Berenson. Published monthly ever since, it is the longest-running art journal in the English language. It is owned by an independent charitable trust.

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The Burlington Contemporary

<b>The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize</b> seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. <div><br></div><div>To enter the prize, entrants should s<b>ubmit one unpublished review of one contemporary art exhibition</b> by the specified deadline: <b>10am BST on Monday 20th July 2026.</b> As we are based in the United Kingdom, the provided deadline will always be in the GMT/BST time zone. Please note that late entries will not be considered.</div><div><br></div><div>Entrants must have published <b>no more than six pieces of writing in print or online, in any language or country, prior to their submission</b>. This does not include personal blogs and websites, but does relate to writing of any sort, on any topic, published by a professional outlet (excluding student newspapers). </div><div><br></div><div>Before entering, applicants are encouraged to read reviews recently published in Burlington Contemporary.</div><div><br></div><div>Writers who have already been published in The Burlington Magazine or Burlington Contemporary <b>are not eligible to enter.</b></div><div><br></div><div>There is <b>no age limit</b> for applicants. </div><div><br></div><div>‘Contemporary’ is defined as art produced since 2000. </div><div><br></div><div>The exhibition under review can be staged anywhere in the world, but it should be <b>current</b> or have closed within the last six months at the date of submission. </div><div><br></div><div>Texts about the applicant’s own work or project will not be accepted. Poems or visual essays will also not be accepted.</div><div><br></div><div>The review must be between <b>800 and 1,000 words</b> in length and accompanied by <b>up to three low-resolution images</b>.  </div><div><br></div><div>The submitted review must be written in English and emailed as <b>a word document (please do not send a PDF) </b>together with a completed submission form to: <b>burlingtoncontemporary@burlington.org.uk. </b></div><div><br></div><div>Please <b>include your full name</b> in the submitted file names. </div>

The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize

<div><div>We are currently seeking submissions for<b> a special printmaking issue of the journal. </b>We are looking for articles that present new research on works of art that employ printmaking in various ways, rather than broad studies focused on the medium of printmaking itself and its definitions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Please send submissions to burlingtoncontemporary@burlington.org.uk.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Journal article submissions, which should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words, must be based on original, unpublished research. All articles will be subject to peer review.</b></div><div><b>  </b></div><div>Burlington Contemporary welcomes submissions of <b>articles that deal with the work of living artists, or with work made after 1960. Articles should be the result of new research that has not been published elsewhere.</b> Submissions are judged in relation to their international and lasting significance to the field of contemporary art. All submissions are subject to peer review. We are unable to consider article submissions by authors regarding their own artistic practice. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Before submitting an article, potential contributors should send a 150-word synopsis to the Contemporary Art Editor, Kathryn Lloyd: lloyd@burlington.org.uk. </b>Authors are strongly advised to study a recent issue of the journal before getting in touch concerning potential articles.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Length</b></div><div><ul><li>Articles should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words.</li><li>Footnotes should be limited to references; discursive footnotes will be cut.</li><li>Excerpted interviews may be considered as an appendix if they are of exceptional importance. Otherwise quotes from interviews should be worked into the running text of an article.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Language</b></div><div><ul><li>Where possible, manuscripts should be submitted in English, although submission in other major European languages are acceptable. If an article in a foreign language is accepted, the Magazine will arrange to have it translated. </li><li>All quotations from non-English language sources should be translated into English and the original text put into a footnote. </li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Format </b></div><div>Articles should be sent as email attachments in the form of a Microsoft Word document, using the programme’s footnote facility. Please do not submit a PDF. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Style </b></div><div>Burlington Contemporary has its own house style and articles will be edited to conform with it. We use British spelling and style, and with a few exceptions conform to the preferences of The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Illustrations, video and audio content</b></div><div><ul><li>We welcome film and audio content in addition to images. Please contact the editor to discuss this.</li><li>For an article of 3,000 words, we recommend between eight and twelve illustrations.</li><li>Please include as part of the article a numbered list of illustrations, which should relate to figure references within the text. </li><li>Please supply low resolution files of the images. These may be grouped into a separate Word document or pdf file. Please do not place illustrations within the text of the article. If the article is accepted we will discuss with the author the ordering of high-resolution files and the payment of reproduction fees.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Peer review</b></div><div><ul><li>We aim to respond to all authors within three months of their submission.</li><li><span style="color: rgb(20 20 20/var(--tw-text-opacity,1));">All submitted articles are read by the editors and if deemed potentially suitable for publication are sent out for peer review. As a result of the referees’ report an article will be rejected, accepted unconditionally, or (most usually) returned to the author with an invitation to resubmit following the referees’ suggestions. Once an article is accepted we endeavour to give the author a provisional date for publication.</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Image fees and reproduction costs</b></div><div>We are committed to working with authors of accepted articles to negotiate reproduction fees, covering these costs and obtaining images where necessary.</div><div> </div></div>

Submit a journal article: Printmaking issue

<div>The weekly section of the site includes exhibition reviews, book reviews, artist profiles, interviews, obituaries and occasional long-form articles. </div><div><br></div><div>For the weekly section of Burlington Contemporary, we welcome pitches from new writers with a relevant publication history. Please send a short pitch, including an outline of how your interests and research are relevant to your proposal and samples of your previous writing. Although every pitch is considered with interest, it may take several weeks for us to respond and we cannot guarantee a response to all emails. Before you submit a pitch, we strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the publication to ensure your proposal aligns with its content and tone. We do not accept unsolicited material for this section of the website; pre-written texts will be not be considered.</div>

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