Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital

Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

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Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

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Choi Goen: ‘My work always begins with discovering a material’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

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ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’

Meet the artists who have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

In partnership withMinistry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Korea Arts Management Service

Elsa James’s exhibition in my home county, Essex, is a potent rejection of the erasure of history

The show gives voice to sidelined Black figures and is a “direct and unapologetic” means of confronting Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade

From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

‘The Herds’ is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculptures—and it succeeds where many ostensibly green projects fail

Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

After three years spent critiquing the art world's response to the climate crisis for this column, Louisa Buck takes stock of what's been achieved—and what remains to be done

Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working-class life

The show, held at the grand Two Temple Place, challenges inequities and misrepresentation

Richard Wright: ‘When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it’

The Turner Prize winner, who is having his first UK institutional exhibition in two decades, explains his process, the interplay of time and space within his work, and why he had a brief career as a sign painter

This Devon exhibition explores why, when it comes to the environment, the planetary is not at odds with the local

A racial justice activist by trade, Ashish Ghadiali's show at Thelma Hulbert Gallery is his first as an artist

Gillian Wearing and Michael Landy’s joint exhibition shows the artistic power of love

The artist couple’s show in Naples, Italy, also taps into the city’s religious heritage

Comment | Leigh Bowery’s radical art is being rightly celebrated—but let’s not forget those who helped him on his way

The artist’s close network of creative mavericks were integral to the indelible mark he left on London's cultural life

Comment | Somerset House’s soil-themed exhibition shows the importance of being down to earth

The London institution’s new show features a variety of works that emphasise the wonder and critical importance of dirt

Liliane Lijn: the US artist on meeting the Surrealists and how ski wax changed everything for her

Lijn's career has taken her from hanging out with artists in 1950s Paris to observing cutting edge scientific research at Cern. A clutch of shows, coupled with the imminent publication of her memoir, also demonstrate the role of language in her work

Comment | How technology can help the art world take a big step towards sustainability

A new report published by the virtual reality platform Vortic makes clear the environmental benefits of going digital—and a hybrid approach could a way forward in the short term

Maria Balshaw: ‘Attitudes towards sustainability have shifted much faster in the last three to five years’

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and environmental crisis

Comment | Ryan Gander's first permanent public work in London puts a new shine on bronze

The artist’s six new, fun and idiosyncratic bronze public sculptures—installed in October—were made in close collaboration with local schoolchildren

Seeds of hope: artist Anya Gallaccio’s Margate retrospective is a reminder of how life always finds a way

The show at Turner Contemporary features works made from organic materials that rot, wither and stink—but there is new growth being fostered too

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Remembering Marc Camille Chaimowicz, the godfather of contemporary conceptual art

The French-born London-based artist merged the once-siloed worlds of art and design to create inimitably intimate participatory experiences

As the no-strings Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists turn 30, it’s time to celebrate what makes them special

These awards, which have increased to £75,000 for each recipient this year, are unique in that they come with no conditions

From neon installations to an animatronic bear, here's what not to miss this Turin Art week

The event may be focused around Artissima, Italy’s leading art fair, but there's must-see exhibitions to found across the city

From snail-trail paintings to beaver-chewed sculptures: Castello di Rivoli’s new exhibition shows what’s possible when mankind and nature join forces

Mutual Aid, recently opened at the Turin museum, is devoted to work humans have made in collaboration with other species

From ‘bleeding’ sculptures to pirate utopias: how women, queer and non-binary artists are reshaping the Korean art scene

As works at major fairs and biennials have made clear, the K-art landscape is rich with artists confronting gender hierarchies and pushing other conversations in new directions

Sophie Calle on oversharing, exploring death and the rules that govern her boundary-pushing practice

Calle is famous for her examination of people’s personal lives—and her own—in an almost voyeuristic way. But, despite the title of her latest show, 'Overshare', she says her work exposes less than many people do on social media

Artist and gallery awards announced at Frieze London

Nat Faulkner wins the Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize, while Proyectos Ultravioleta bags the Frieze London Stand Prize 2024

Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London

Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists

Chila Kumari Singh Burman: ‘I’ve always rebelled against being told what to do’

The self-described “Punjabi Scouser” artist’s colourful neon works raise a smile, but with themes of feminism, racism and colonialism there is a serious intent to her art

From punk pioneer to major market player: 40 years of Maureen Paley gallery

Paley's operations have grown from a derelict London house to three spaces across the UK—but her risk-taking, collaborative nature remains the same