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A brush with...

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A brush with..., sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, is a podcast by The Art Newspaper that features in-depth conversations with leading international artists. Host Ben Luke asks the questions you've always wanted to: who are the artists, historical and contemporary, they most admire? Which are the museums they return to? What are the books, music and other media that most inspire them? What do they get up to in the studio every day? And what is art for, anyway?


The podcast offers a fascinating insight into the inspirations, the preoccupations and the working lives of some of the most prominent artists today.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
59 minutes
Episodes
122
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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A brush with... Oscar Murillo

A brush with... Oscar Murillo

Oscar Murillo talks to Ben Luke about the defining cultural experiences and influences of his life. Oscar first shot to fame in the art world with paintings that attracted huge attention in 2013—canv…

00:52:13  |   Tue 27 Jul 2021
A brush with... Ellen Gallagher

A brush with... Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher talks about her life and work through the art, literature, music and other cultural experiences that have profoundly affected her. She tells Ben Luke about the extraordinary opportuni…

01:04:33  |   Tue 29 Jun 2021
A brush with... Julian Opie

A brush with... Julian Opie

Ben Luke talks to Julian Opie about his life and work by exploring the artists that have inspired him, his literary and musical influences and the cultural experiences that have most affected him. He…
00:52:56  |   Wed 23 Jun 2021
A brush with... Cristina Iglesias

A brush with... Cristina Iglesias

Ben Luke talks to Cristina Iglesias about her life and work. She recalls how Disney's Fantasia made an impression on her as a child, how Velázquez's Spinners (Las Hilanderas) started her lifelong lov…
00:55:38  |   Wed 16 Jun 2021
A brush with... Michael Rakowitz

A brush with... Michael Rakowitz

Ben Luke talks to the US-based artist about his influences and life-changing cultural experiences. They discuss his public sculpture in Margate, April Is the Cruellest Month, with its nods to TS Elio…
01:09:52  |   Wed 09 Jun 2021
A brush with... Do Ho Suh

A brush with... Do Ho Suh

Ben Luke talks to the Seoul-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh about his influences and life-changing cultural experiences. They discuss his recreations of his various homes in coloured fabric and h…
00:54:18  |   Wed 14 Apr 2021
A brush with... Doris Salcedo

A brush with... Doris Salcedo

Ben Luke talks to Doris Salcedo about her life and work through the artists she most admires, the writers she returns to and the music she listens to. She recalls her epiphany when confronted with th…

00:53:19  |   Wed 07 Apr 2021
A brush with... Ali Banisadr

A brush with... Ali Banisadr

As he prepares for a two-part exhibition in Florence, the Tehran-born, Brooklyn-based artist discusses his life and work through the cultural epiphanies and influences that have shaped him. He talks …
01:01:33  |   Wed 31 Mar 2021
A brush with... Julie Mehretu

A brush with... Julie Mehretu

As her retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Ethiopian-born, New York-based artist Julie Mehretu talks in depth about her life and work. She discusses the rich language she u…
00:52:20  |   Wed 24 Mar 2021
A brush with... Tala Madani

A brush with... Tala Madani

In the last of the present series, Ben Luke talks to Tala Madani, the Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based artist, about the influences and cultural experiences behind her remarkable paintings and animatio…
00:55:03  |   Wed 03 Feb 2021
A brush with... Charles Gaines

A brush with... Charles Gaines

Ben Luke talks to Charles Gaines, one of the key figures in American conceptual art, about his influences and cultural experiences and how they have affected his life and work. Gaines discusses the i…
00:49:33  |   Wed 27 Jan 2021
A brush with... Tal R

A brush with... Tal R

This week, Ben Luke interviews the Danish artist Tal R about his influences and cultural experiences. In this in-depth conversation, the painter and sculptor discusses his early love of art and frust…
00:54:07  |   Wed 20 Jan 2021
A brush with... Tracey Rose

A brush with... Tracey Rose

Ben Luke talks to Tracey Rose about how her influences and cultural experiences have affected her life and work. Among other things, she talks about her education as the only Black child in a catholi…
00:58:52  |   Wed 13 Jan 2021
A brush with... Rachel Whiteread

A brush with... Rachel Whiteread

Ben Luke talks to Rachel Whiteread about how her influences and cultural experiences have affected her life and work. Among other things, she talks about the influence of her parents on her work; the…
00:58:00  |   Wed 23 Dec 2020
A brush with... Roni Horn

A brush with... Roni Horn

Ben Luke talks to the US artist Roni Horn about her life and work, with reference to the art, music and literature that are her influences and touchstones. Among much else, they discuss Horn's enduri…
00:59:50  |   Wed 16 Dec 2020
A brush with... Christina Quarles

A brush with... Christina Quarles

Ben Luke talks to the Los Angeles-based painter Christina Quarles about her life and work through her influences and cultural experiences. Quarles discusses her powerful figurative paintings. "I see …
00:57:16  |   Wed 09 Dec 2020
A brush with... Ragnar Kjartansson

A brush with... Ragnar Kjartansson

Ben Luke talks to the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson in depth about his influences and cultural experiences. Among much else, they discuss Kjartansson's love of 18th-century art and him being "h…
00:56:43  |   Wed 02 Dec 2020
A brush with... Rashid Johnson

A brush with... Rashid Johnson

Ben Luke talks to Rashid Johnson about the cultural experiences that have had an impact on his life and work. They discuss his beginnings as a photographer, but how he quickly occupied a "post-medium…
00:59:05  |   Wed 26 Aug 2020
A brush with... Chantal Joffe

A brush with... Chantal Joffe

Ben Luke talks to Chantal Joffe about the cultural experiences that have had an impact on her life and work. They discuss the shift in her work from early paintings based on pornography to recent dep…
00:50:49  |   Wed 19 Aug 2020
A brush with... Jenny Saville

A brush with... Jenny Saville

Ben Luke talks to Jenny Saville about her cultural experiences and their effect on her work and life. We learn about how her uncle inspired her to explore the Old Masters and match their ambition, ho…

01:02:00  |   Wed 12 Aug 2020
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