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Louise Benson

@louisebenson.bsky.social
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Editor-in-Chief at Ocula. Co-founder of interiors magazine Scenic Views. Trustee of Wysing Arts Centre. Writing on art, photography, politics + identity. louisebenson@artreview.com

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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨NEWS: I’m now Editor-in-Chief at @ocula.com, which is relaunching in the UK with a new website and editorial strategy. I’ll also be building a new team there - more details to come in the next few weeks.
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The sun's out, David Hockney's got a show in Paris, and everything is in bloom here in London. For @artreview.bsky.social, I wrote about the comforting allure of 'feelgood' art and the pleasant lack of being challenged by what you see artreview.com/what-does-fe...
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What Does Feelgood Art Look Like?
Like a cigarette, ‘feelgood’ art is contrary, anachronistic and fleeting in its pleasure
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
‘Iconoclasts obliterate the icons, Just Stop Oil just gave those icons their five a day.’ artreview.com/so-long-just...
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So Long Just Stop Oil, and Thanks for All the Soup
What the gentle iconoclasm of the climate action group makes you realise, fundamentally, is how powerless we all really are
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I wrote about what exhibitions designed for children get wrong, the class divide when it comes to museum visits, and why outreach programmes so often fail to reach beyond a core demographic of wealthy, white, highly-educated visitors. Out now in @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-trouble-...
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The Trouble with Designing Exhibitions for Kids
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?
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote about the Educational bookshop, and why the ugly and ridiculous attack on its owners matters. I don't know Mahmoud Muna personally but I heard him a few times and he always struck me as one of Jerusalem's most inspiring intellectuals. artreview.com/mahmoud-muna...
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Why Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop Matters
The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that demonises Palestinians artreview.com/mahmoud-muna...
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Why Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop Matters
The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
On the exploited creative genius character and Hollywood's obsession with individuation as the defining feature of existence. Whatever happened to creative community? artreview.com/the-neoliber...
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The Neoliberal Fantasy of ‘The Brutalist’
The film’s reductive portrayal of an exploited creative ‘genius’ places individuation as the defining feature of existence
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🔊Podcast producers: we are seeking a freelance producer at @artreview.bsky.social for an exciting upcoming editorial project. Ideally based in London but can be remote. Get in touch on here or email me at louisebenson@artreview.com 📩
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If you read one thing today, make it this conflicted elegy to Sontag by @olibasciano.bsky.social on the strange joy of hating your heroes artreview.com/the-monstrou...
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The Monstrous Susan Sontag
Rude, immoral and unashamedly intellectual. 20 years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today?
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
At @artreview.bsky.social I am looking for new writers for opinion-led columns, expansive reviews and on-the-ground reporting to tackle social and political questions (both big and small) through the world of art and culture. Here are some highlights from our publishing over the last few months.
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
End of the year and a few months since I've been back at @ArtReview_ from parental leave. My own year in review is marked by both the intensity of domestic labour and getting my brain back out into the world of work and art and culture. It's not always been easy but here we are.
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
ArtReview’s 2024 edition of the Power 100 list is out now artreview.com/power-100/
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Power 100
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📢 Jasleen Kaur on winning the Turner Prize: 🚨“I've been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down.” 🔑“I want the institution to understand that if you want us inside you need to listen to us outside.”
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On the Harper's cover story, the pitfalls of nostalgia, and what happens when you blame the art and not your own changing tastes... 🎨 artreview.com/can-you-age-...
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Are You Too Old for the Artworld?
Complaining that most art sucks is like saying that all new music is bad because you don’t like Spotify’s Top 50 playlist
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
On censorship, the ethics of arts institutions, and Palestine. Proud to publish this by @jamesbridle.bsky.social today in @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/james-bridle...
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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
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Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Balcony details to make your head spin. The Hallfield Estate, designed in 1951 by Berthold Lubetkin
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