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
Suspended Between Past and Future: Brian Dillon’s ‘Suppose a Sentence’, ReviewedBen EasthamArtReview26 October 2020The author’s exercise in literary criticism is ultimately about love
When the Money Runs Out, What Might a ‘Poor Art’ Look Like?Ben EasthamArtReview18 September 2020An ‘arte povera’, reclaimed for a new revolution today, must redirect attention onto the histories and structures that shape its production
Making Art vs Market ResearchBen EasthamArtReview21 August 2020Why we all need a fortress of solitude
