Louise Benson

London

Digital Director at ArtReview

Director of Digital at @ArtReview_. Co-founder of Scenic Views. Trustee @wysingartscentr. Writing on art, photography, politics + identity.

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Articles

The 10 Exhibitions to See in May 2025

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Jenny Wu |Louise Benson

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing19th Venice Biennale of Architecture: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial.
What Does Feelgood Art Look Like?

1 month 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.
Art Lovers Movie Club: Margaret Salmon, ‘Boy (winter)’, 2022

1 month 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.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in April 2025

1 month 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...
The 10 Exhibitions to See in March 2025

2 months 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...
The Trouble with Designing Exhibitions for Kids

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.
Ceidra Moon Murphy’s Game of Show and Tell

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.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2025

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.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2025

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.
The 10 Exhibitions to See in November 2024

Nov 7, 2024 | artreview.com | J.J. Charlesworth |Louise Benson

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from a radical archive of LGBTQ+ experience in Brazil to the Bangkok Art BiennaleA Memorial for Catherine Christer Hennix (1948–2023) Performance Space, New York, 9 November Members of the Kamigaku Ensemble – a group led by the late Swedish musician and composer Catherine Christer Hennix – will perform her final work, Kamigaku, as part of an all-day sound program dedicated to this icon of drone music.