Body Language

by Ben Street

127 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2013

About the author

Ben Street is a writer, educator and art historian based in London. He is the author of several books on art for general and younger readers, He has also written for numerous publications, including museum catalogues, monographs and magazines, most regularly Apollo, Art Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He has participated as an expert on TV and radio programmes for the BBC and was the presenter and co-author (with Al Smith) of ‘Duchamp’s Urinal’ for BBC Radio 4. He is currently researching and writing a PhD on the late work of Philip Guston.

He has worked as a lecturer and educator for many museums and educational institutions, including the National Gallery, Tate, the Royal Academy, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Christie’s Education, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. IHe has devised and written interpretative materials (audio-visual and written guides) for many exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Tate and the National Gallery.