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Ben Street
Art Historian, Lecturer, Writer
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All art is for children – and great art can make children of us all
29 June, 2021
Great art makes children of us all (Ben Street)
Thinking Giovanni Bellini (Nicholas Hall, 2020)
24 July, 2020
An article on thinking about Giovanni Bellini.
Deepfakes (Art Review, 2019)
13 January, 2020
Excavation, forgeries, and the haunted past
Detective Work (Art Review, 2019)
13 January, 2020
Ben Street recalls the time a leading art historian called in the police to test the truth of art history
‘A History of Pink’ (OOF, 2019)
29 October, 2019
A history of the colour pink in art history for OOF magazine
‘The Power of the Self-Portrait’ (Art Quarterly, 2019)
29 October, 2019
Discussion of self portraiture by Zanele Muholi, William Blake, Francesca Woodman, Paul Gauguin for Art Quarterly magazine
Kelly Grovier, ‘A New Way of Seeing’ (TLS, 2019)
29 October, 2019
Review of 'A New Way of Seeing' by Kelly Grovier for the Times Literary Supplement
Joshua Sperling, ‘A Writer of our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger’ (TLS, 2019)
29 October, 2019
Review of 'A Writer of our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger' by Joshua Sperling
Jonathan Jones, ‘Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy’ (TLS, 2019)
30 June, 2019
Review of Jonathan Jones, 'Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy' (TLS, 2019)
Isabelle Graw, ‘The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium’ (Art Review, 2018)
30 October, 2018
Review of Isabelle Graw, ‘The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium’ (Art Review, 2018)
Talking about Talking about Painting (Freelands Foundation, 2018)
29 October, 2018
A talk for Freelands Foundation, London
Wolf Burchard, ‘The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV’ (Art Quarterly, 2017)
4 November, 2017
Wolf Burchard, 'The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV' (Art Quarterly, 2017)
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