Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 150
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.7/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 6.2k subscribers
Instagram: 622.0k followers
Page updated: Oct 28, 2026 · How we check this data
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
b.luke@theartnewspaper.com
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Host
Ben Luke - Art journalist, critic, writer, and broadcaster associated with The Art Newspaper.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Sunil Gupta - Photography, Queer Identity, Migration, Race, Activism, Artistic Influences, And Studio Practice.
Richard Tuttle - Drawing, Materiality, Architecture, The Viewer’s Relationship To Art, Literary Influences, And Studio Practice.
Dawoud Bey - Photography, Black History, Landscape, Jazz, Portraiture, Film, Literary Influences, And The Social Role Of Art.
Katharina Grosse - Expanded Painting, Color, Architecture, Movement, Artistic Influences, And The Physical Process Of Studio Work.
Pio Abad - Art And Political History, The Philippines, Collecting, Cultural Exploitation, Drawing, Installation, And The Legacy Of Pacita Abad.
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Episodes
A brush with... Sung Tieu
October 28, 2026
Sung Tieu talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Tieu’s work uses her own personal history to explore various conditions in contemporary society. Born in Hai Duong, Vietnam, in 1987, she now lives in Berlin. This interface between her Vietnamese background and her present environment—in the broadest sense of the term—forms the structure for a wideranging, materially rich...
A brush with... George Shaw
October 20, 2026
George Shaw talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Shaw, who was born in 1966 in Coventry, UK, makes paintings and drawings that are a response to a particular place but also a deeply personal engagement with memory. Although his paintings depict identifiable locations within Tile Hill, the postwar housing estate on which he grew up in the suburbs of Coventry in England’s ...
A brush with... Gabriel Orozco
October 13, 2026
Gabriel Orozco talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. You can also watch this conversation as a video on the YouTube channels of The Art Newspaper and Bloomberg Connects.Gabriel Orozco was born in 1962, in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and lives today between Tokyo, Mexico City and New York. His work is grounded in a singular take on realism, using everyday objects and images a...
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