Louisa Buck

London

Arts Writer, Broadcaster and Correspondent at Freelance

Contemporary Art Correspondent at The Art Newspaper

Art writer and broadcaster. Contemporary art correspondent, The Art Newspaper, South Londoner, Essex native. Mainly do Insta - @loubuck01 too …

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Anna Maria Maiolino: ‘My body speaks to me and I’ve been listening to it since I was really young’

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

Born in Italy in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino is today acknowledged as a leading figure in contemporary art in Brazil and beyond. With her family, she left post-war Italy to settle first in Venezuela, and then Brazil, where her formative years were shaped by political instability and the Brazilian military dictatorship that held power between 1964 and 1985.
London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Louisa Buck

Now the biggest "gallery weekend" in the world, the fifth edition of the annual London Gallery Weekend (LGW) confirms that even in these turbulent times, the city’s art market ecosystem continues to expand and evolve. Out of 126 galleries taking part across town in central, south, east and west London, 15 are new participants, and of these, 11 are newly established.
ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

A selection of Korea's most exciting contemporary artists have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today, a long-term project which will see a cohort of artists chosen each year for their potential to make it on the global stage. See the full list here. IkkibawiKrrr is a visual research band founded in 2021 by Gyeol Ko, Jungwon Kim and Jieun Cho.
Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

A selection of Korea's most exciting contemporary artists have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today, a long-term project which will see a cohort of artists chosen each year for their potential to make it on the global stage. See the full list here.
Elsa James’s exhibition in my home county, Essex, is a potent rejection of the erasure of history

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

Stepping on a body is an uncomfortable experience, even if that body is only in photographic form. However, it is impossible to enter Elsa James’s exhibition at Firstsite, in Colchester, UK, without walking over multiple larger-than-life images of the British African-Caribbean artist lined up in rows—and covering the entire floor of the first main gallery. In most her eyes are closed, but in one instance she looks directly up, raising her hands as if to protect herself.
From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

A hugely ambitious mobile public artwork is currently traveling through Africa on its way to Europe and then up to the Arctic Circle in a call for action and a cry for change. On a scale appropriate to the climate and environmental crisis that it is aiming to highlight, The Herds is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculptures—the term puppet doesn’t do them justice—that is crossing continents on a symbolic flight from climate disaster.
Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

It has been three years since I published my first Green is the New Black column in May 2022. Then as now, the intention is to cast a beady eye on the ways in which all facets of the art world—artists, institutions, organisations great and small—are responding to the environmental and climate crisis.
Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working-class life

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

The opulent interior of Two Temple Place, built as the London headquarters for the property tycoon William Waldorf Astor, might seem an incongruous setting for an exhibition devoted to working-class artists and life.
Richard Wright: ‘When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it’

Mar 28, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

The British artist Richard Wright makes intricate abstract wall paintings, which can cover entire walls, ceilings and stairwells or be found in less conspicuous corners and even on the floor. Sometimes minimal, sometimes elaborate, these works are always unique and made in direct response to their setting. His sources are many and various, ranging across art history, graphic design and typography, but are always developed intuitively according to the site.
This Devon exhibition explores why, when it comes to the environment, the planetary is not at odds with the local

Mar 28, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Louisa Buck

Whether talking about matters environmental or life in general, the terms ‘local’ and ‘global’ tend to be set in a binary ‘either/or’ configuration. This despite the obvious fact that these two states are not mutually exclusive but co-existent. For it is the very nature of our existence that we are simultaneously part of the wider world as well as wherever we happen to plant our feet.

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Articles

Anna Maria Maiolino: ‘My body speaks to me and I’ve been listening to it since I was really young’

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’

Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’

Elsa James’s exhibition in my home county, Essex, is a potent rejection of the erasure of history

From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working-class life

Richard Wright: ‘When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it’

This Devon exhibition explores why, when it comes to the environment, the planetary is not at odds with the local

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