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Ben Luke
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Freelance art broadcaster and writer.
• Podcast host and contributing editor, The Art Newspaper
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Latest The Week in Art; rather pleasing to end with Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett after beginning with Trump…
April 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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This pod features a discussion about the show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum mentioned in Trump’s latest executive order curtailing free speech. You can see why these cowards feel so challenged.

Scary times ahead.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
March 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Great reporting by Helen Stoilas on a disgusting new development.

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Mentions of ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ removed from US government website dedicated to Stonewall National Monument
Other pages on the National Park Service site related to diversity, equity and inclusion also appear affected
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February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Three very meaningful conversations this week, with four fantastic guests.

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Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle
Podcast Episode · The Week in Art · 31/01/2025 · 1h 15m
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January 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Sad news. @bhsutton.bsky.social did a lovely interview with Jaune on The Week in Art in 2023 (link to that in this piece by Ben.

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85
A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life
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January 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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ATTN: All London filmgoers and film journalists.
chrisco96.bsky.social Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Jan 28
@princecharlescinema.com is one of the most important cultural spaces in London with incredibly unique programming so we need to ensure it stays going. Please sign this petition to keep it going.

princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
#SaveThePCC
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January 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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this honestly goes a long way toward explaining why the coverage of the Biden administration was so egregiously terrible
jamisonfoser.bsky.social Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Jan 22
White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr...
Excerpts from a Columbia Journalism Review article: "Instead, White House reporters say, the Biden team preferred to offer background quotes from in-house experts" and "'For a lot of people, what was the point in even going?' said a veteran White House reporter." and "Trump, on the other hand, adores the attention of the media" and "'Despite his sometimes strident and sometimes even violent rhetoric about the press, he loves talking to us,' the print reporter said."
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’ @benlukeart.bsky.social

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Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’
In viral essays and beyond, those who bemoan the dominance of identity politics in museums often reveal more of their own biases than of the art world's
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January 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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A brush with... podcast is wrapped for 2024.

Latest series featured Goshka Macuga, Jeff Wall, Hank Willis Thomas and Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.

An amazing year – so many artists I have long wanted to talk to.

Listen and subscribe to hear all 105 episodes:
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December 17, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Did a little roundup of my favourite shows of 2024 for my December column in @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/16/c...

And my review of the Matisse show at the Beyeler Foundation that is mentioned in the column is also here.

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Comment | The exhibitions I adored this year—and the one I didn’t
2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor
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December 17, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Typically excellent work from Dan
December 7, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Morning inspiration:

‘Jeff Wall, The Thinker (1986)’

currently on show at White Cube, London @whitecube-official.bsky.social

I highly recommend seeing the show; a retrospective of Wall’s 30 year career.

& listen to interview with @benlukeart.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/4KY5...
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Top artist of every year…
December 4, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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The latest A brush with… is a conversation with Jeff Wall. Among the other works we discuss is one of his “hallucinations”, The Flooded Grave, 1998-2000.

So great to talk to this great artist.

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November 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Time to start posting, then…

New series of A brush with… begins today with a stellar artist: Goshka Macuga. She speaks brilliantly about everything from the transformative effect of encountering Christo in an art mag to the subversive metaphors of Stanislaw Lem.

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A brush with... Goshka Macuga
Podcast Episode · A brush with... · 20/11/2024 · 1h 11m
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November 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Pleased to see the X-odus is bringing more arty people here; hello, everyone.
November 16, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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So here I am... are there any art people here?

Anyway, inevitably my first post is to flag the A brush with... podcast; latest episode is with the marvellous Charline von Heyl.

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August 8, 2024 at 8:28 AM