Louise Benson

1 week ago | artreview.com | Louise Benson

Like a cigarette, ‘feelgood’ art is contrary, anachronistic and fleeting in its pleasureWhat is your ‘feelgood’ film? A rom-com perhaps, or an action flick? Something that doesn’t require much brainpower, is eminently rewatchable and offers a welcome distraction from the real world. Seasonal romps, superhero blockbusters and endless adaptations dominate cinemas (A Minecraft Movie just broke box-office records), while streaming algorithms line up your old favourites for unlimited repeats.

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Louise Benson

The American-British filmmaker’s poetic portrait of youth explores the power dynamics of the cinematic gaze In the closing credits of Margaret Salmon’s Boy (winter) (2022), the childcare provided by a local primary school is listed alongside the colourist, sound designer and camera assistant who worked on the 30-minute short, which was shot in Glasgow throughout the winter of 2021.

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Jenny Wu |Louise Benson |Yuwen Jiang

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Olivia Erlanger and Phuong Ngo to the expansion of São Paulo’s MASP Olivia Erlanger: Spinoff Luhring Augustine, New York, through 19 April The New York-based artist Olivia Erlanger has spent a decade sifting through the spatial imaginary of America’s suburban middle class, scrutinising unsung architectural typologies such as garages – the subject of a research project she undertook with architect Luis Ortega Govela in...

1 month ago | 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...

2 months ago | 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.