At the Crossroads of Art and LiteratureBen EasthamArtReview29 July 2021‘Intertitles’ assembles those working at the ‘intersection of writing and visual art’ in an anthology that explores their convergence
Shootouts and Philosophy: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Committed’Ben EasthamArtReview15 July 2021In this sequel to the award-winning novel ‘The Sympathizer’, Nguyen’s anonymous narrator pursues a nihilistic life in France as a philosophical drug dealer for ‘bobo’ Parisians
Principles of Power: Kader Attia’s ‘The Museum of Repair’Ben EasthamArtReview16 June 2021At State of Concept, Athens, a survey of Attia’s decade at the forefront of decolonial art practice
How Lockdown Taught Me To Live With ArtBen Easthamartreview.com03 March 2021Unlike spare bedrooms, museums and galleries are designed to engineer your critical consent
What Does It Mean To Write a Painting? On Max Porter’s ‘The Death of Francis Bacon’Ben Easthamartreview.com21 January 2021Expressionistic and extemporaneous, the author describes the artist’s last days via eight scenes in a hospital room
What Is ‘the Artworld’?Ben EasthamArtReview30 November 2020If everyone can agree the artworld is in crisis, then why is no one able to adequately define it?
‘A Fleeting Moment of Perfect Stillness’: the Paintings of Matthew WongBen EasthamArtReview25 November 2020A show at ARCH, Athens presents a selection of preparatory gouaches made by the artist before he passed away last year
