Ben Street

Art Historian, Lecturer, Writer

Art & Ideas

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Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern (Art Review, 2017)

2 November, 2017
Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern (Art Review, 2017)
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Elizabeth Prettejohn, ‘Modern Painters, Old Masters’ (Art Quarterly, 2017)

30 October, 2017
Review of Elizabeth Prettejohn, 'Modern Painters, Old Masters' (Art Quarterly, 2017)
A 3D-printed version of ‘Vulcan’s Forge’ (c. 1630) by Velazquez, designed for blind and partially sighted visitors. Photo: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

‘Audio Guide’: a talk for the temporarily blind (Freelands Foundation, 2017)

29 October, 2017
A performance / talk for Freelands Foundation, London
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Expensive Paintings as Metaphors of Themselves (Art:21, 2011)

28 May, 2011
It’s remarkable how often these performances of revealed beauty take center stage in major museum acquisitions of works of art.
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Avatar and Art (Art:21, 2010)

18 January, 2010
The arrival of cinema dovetailed with painting dismantling its own illusory apparatus: the shutting down of the circus. Avatar does what painting used to do before modernism popped all the balloons.
Leo Tolstoy in his study, 1891

Art and Memory (Art:21, 2009)

23 November, 2009
What’s the quality of our experiences with art, and how can these be improved, given so many of them slip out of mind?