Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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Boats and trains, not planes: reflections on a greener—but sometimes greenwashed—Venice Biennale

From curator Koyo Kouoh’s foregrounding of “all earthly elements” to Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's new sustainable art island, references to the environment can be found throughout the Italian city

At Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Angela de la Cruz's audacious, visceral art takes no prisoners

“Upright” is the artist's first exhibition in a UK institution since 2010

Lubaina Himid on capturing the 'uneasiness' of Britain for her Venice Biennale pavilion

The artist, who was born in Zanzibar, describes Britain as having "all the hallmarks of safety and calm, but has an underlying loathing of the Other"

Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’

The South Korean artist, whose work is on show in Venice's Piazza San Marco during the Biennale, describes how his work combines the natural and industrial, and why he taught himself to draw breath—literally

‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition

The self-styled “grandmother of performance art” is the first female living artist to exhibit at the Gallerie dell’Accademia—and she wants everyone to join in

Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris

Slags, bings and pipelines: Edinburgh landscape offers fitting backdrop for exhibition on fossil fuel extraction

While Jupiter Artland show brings together five artists whose work explores energy histories, the sculpture park and gallery has transitioned to nearly 100% renewable energy

Demise of world's largest mangrove forest inspires Bangladeshi artist Soma Surovi Jannat's new works

The links between natural disasters and social inequalities in Bangladesh underpin the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums

The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure

Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’

After beginning her career in the 1950s, and then taking 25 years out to raise a family, the artist finally hit her stride in the 2000s. Now, she is the first female painter to have a show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Art collective Cooking Sections’ food projects are helping save the planet

Art duo are delivering actionable ecological change through sustainable food production and consumption schemes

At London’s Freud Museum, the artist Cathie Pilkington has made a ghostly intervention

The British artist’s exhibition explores Freud’s housekeeper as a poltergeist figure

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Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’

Tate Modern is hosting the largest retrospective to date of one of the UK’s biggest artists, who has never shrunk away from laying bare the most intimate and even traumatic details of her personal life

Practice what you preach: artists reflect on ocean crisis at England's Baltic as centre wins sustainability award

Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return'

Inside the star-studded party celebrating 30 years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Through her Turin-based foundation, collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaundengo has shaped the art world as we know it today

Paris exhibition provides a new canon-busting vision of Minimalism

Bourse de Commerce show celebrates the movement's unsung stars such as Meg Webster

Enrico David: ‘It’s as if the objects are there as an avatar for something that has gone’

From mutated humanoid figures to sculptural furniture and miniature theatrical scenes, the Italian artist’s exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli teems with proxies for loss

How ‘archaeological ceramicist’ Yasmin Smith has forever changed the way I look at flint

“Elemental Life” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology

Comment | As Cop30 opens in Brazil, it is time for the art world to embrace ethics with aesthetics

Ten years on from Gustav Metzger’s visionary environmental art project “Remember Nature”, global leaders and gallerists alike must engage with the climate crisis, writes Louisa Buck

Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’

The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces

Everyone’s a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London

We take stock of who has won what, from the Tate Frieze Fund to the Circa 2025 prize

Thinking bigger: gallery stalwarts Sadie Coles, Maureen Paley and Stuart Shave on why they're expanding to new London spaces

Amid a challenging art market, the gallerists remain positive about London's resilience as an international hub

Máret Ánne Sara: ‘art became necessary since nothing else helped’

The Sámi-Norwegian artist integrates the key motifs of a reindeer herder community with the wider ecological crisis in her Turbine Hall commission

Comment | Frieze galleries have committed to climate donations—now it's time for the art world to pack in its private jets

A new initiative will see some galleries donate a percentage of their sales to the Gallery Climate Coalition, but when it comes to environmental action there is still much to be done, writes Louisa Buck

Comment | Bristol's Spike Island has become an environmental beacon—here's why it makes financial sense for others to follow suit

Investing in meaningful action on the climate emergency can seem daunting for smaller, cash-strapped outfits, writes Louisa Buck, but it pays off in more ways than one

Linder’s performances were transportive over the summer—now one has been purchased for the first time

The artist's show across two Scottish locations, co-commissioned by Mount Stuart Trust and Edinburgh Art Festival, offered a dangerous sense of disquiet

Comment | I used to think it wasn’t cool to like Andy Goldsworthy—now I see how he helps us appreciate the natural world

Two recent Goldsworthy shows, one at the National Galleries of Scotland and the other at Jupiter Artland, have radically changed my view of the artist, writes Louisa Buck

It's hard for green-themed art shows to garner credibility—the Helsinki Biennial deserves more than most

Having recently opened its third edition, Helsinki Biennial marks what is undoubtedly a new departure in eco-biennales, writes Louisa Buck