Ben Luke

Ben Luke is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is a contributing editor of The Art Newspaper and presents its podcasts A brush with…, of which there are over 100 episodes, and The Week in Art, which has run or more than 300 episodes. From 2009 to 2024, he was an art critic at the London Evening Standard. He is a regular guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Monocle 24’s The Globalist. Ben has contributed to books on artists as diverse as Phyllida Barlow, Glenn Brown, Michael Craig-Martin, Mark Dion, Matthew Krishanu, George Shaw and Jiro Takamatsu. He was selected in the Critics’ Critics section of Artforum’s Best of 2024 issue.