Art Critic, Editor and Broadcaster
Ben Luke is Review editor at The Art Newspaper and hosts its podcasts A brush with… and The Week in Art. Since 2009, he has been an art critic at the Evening Standard and he has written for numerous other art magazines and newspapers. He has contributed catalogue essays on artists including Michael Craig-Martin, Mark Dion, Sean Scully, George Shaw and Jiro Takamatsu. Ben is a regular contributor to Monocle 24’s The Globalist and has appeared on the BBC, NPR and Times Radio. Before moving to journalism, he was a press officer at Tate for a number of years. He is a member of the advisory board of the UK’s Government Art Collection.