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A brush with...

Ben Luke

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on the inspirations, working lives, and ideas of prominent contemporary artists, with each episode built around a long-form conversation with one established external artist. Credible pitches would need internationally recognized artists with major museum exhibitions, biennial participation, or significant critical standing; booking is high difficulty and best suited to top-tier art-world clients.

Metrics

Episodes: 146

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 6.2k subscribers

Instagram: 622.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

b.luke@theartnewspaper.com

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Host

Ben Luke - Art journalist and host at The Art Newspaper.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Internationally recognized artists with substantial bodies of work, major museum or gallery exhibitions, biennial participation, or significant critical recognition.
Required Achievements:  
Major museum exhibitions, International biennial participation, Representation by leading galleries, Significant critical recognition

Recent Guest Discussions

Richard Tuttle - Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Literature, Artistic Influences, Studio Practice, And The Purpose Of Art.

Dawoud Bey - Photography, Film Installations, Black History, Landscape, Portraiture, Jazz, Artistic Influences, And Photographs As Objects.

Katharina Grosse - Expanded Painting, Color, Architecture, Performance, Artistic Influences, And Studio Practice.

Pio Abad - Art And Political History, The Philippines, Collections, Cultural Exploitation, Drawing, Writing, And The Legacy Of Pacita Abad.

Anne Imhof - Performance, Collaboration, Drawing, Improvisation, Contemporary Society, Artistic Influences, And Audience Experience.

Recent Topics

Contemporary Art, Artist Practice, Art History, Museums, Performance Art

Episodes

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A brush with... Sunil Gupta

September 01, 2026

Sunil Gupta talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Across more than half a century Gupta has explored queer identity, migration and race through photography. Born in New Delhi in 1953, but based in Canada and the UK as well as India since he became an artist, he has reflected on his personal background and autobiography to explore a wealth of social and political themes,...

A brush with... Richard Tuttle

August 25, 2026

Richard Tuttle 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. Tuttle, who was born in 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Roselle, lives today in New York, Abiquiú, New Mexico, and Mount Desert, Maine. He combines elements of drawing, painting, sculpture, artist books, printmaking and textiles, often arranged in lyrical installations, yet does not settle in any one di...

A brush with... Dawoud Bey

August 18, 2026

Dawoud Bey 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. Bey, who was born in 1953 in New York, makes photographs and film installations that address the experience of Black people in the US, from the horrors of slavery via racist violence and the Civil Rights era to intimate moments in contemporary life. He began his career as a photographer in the 1970s with the consistent aim ...

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b.luke@theartnewspaper.com

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