Louise Benson

Mar 4, 2025 | artreview.com | Louise Benson

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Arpita Singh in London to the TarraWarra Biennial Guillermo Kuitca: Kuitca 86 Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 14 March–16 June In 1982, aged twenty-one, Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca had already been making and showing for almost a decade (he had his first exhibition aged thirteen) but a trip to see a performance by the German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch at a theatre in Buenos Aires threw...

Feb 21, 2025 | artreview.com | Louise Benson

There is plenty on offer for grown-ups in the Young V&A’s latest exhibition Making Egypt, but what really is the point of that? What to do if you’ve got a kid bouncing off the walls at the weekend and it’s raining outside? With the widespread closure of council-run children’s centres across England alone – down from more than 3,000 in 2010 to just 1,168 in 2023 – you might well turn instead to a museum if you’re lucky enough to have one nearby.

Feb 14, 2025 | artreview.com | Louise Benson

As the Freedom of Information requests displayed by the artist at A. Squire evidence, there are so many creative ways of saying noIn Franz Kafka’s 1915 short story Before the Law, a man approaches a gatekeeper and asks to enter, only to be told he cannot. Might I be allowed to come in later on? asks the man. ‘It is possible,’ says the gatekeeper, ‘but not now.’ Years pass and still his requests are politely deferred. Finally he dies at the gate, an old man.

Feb 3, 2025 | artreview.com | Louise Benson |Jenny Wu |Alexander Leissle

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Sharjah Biennial 16 to Pap Souleye Fall in New YorkSharjah Biennial 16: to carryVarious venues, 6 February–15 JuneSharjah Biennial 16, titled to carry, presents an exploration of the things that we hold – physically, emotionally and culturally – across time and space.

Feb 3, 2025 | asianamericans.einnews.com | Louise Benson |Jenny Wu |Alexander Leissle

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Sharjah Biennial 16 to Pap Souleye Fall in New YorkLuke Willis Thompson, Whakamoemoeā, 2025. Courtesy the artist, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne/BerlinSharjah Biennial 16: to carryVarious venues, 6 February–15 JuneSharjah Biennial 16, titled to carry, presents an exploration of the things that we hold – physically, emotionally and culturally – across time and space.