Louise Darblay

Louise Darblay is a freelance writer and was formerly Managing Editor at ArtReview

Every Ocean Hughes, ‘One Big Bag’: a Guide to the Good Death

Louise DarblayArtReview16 March 2022

The artist’s immersive film installation at London’s Studio Voltaire is an inventory of grief and care

The Explosive Tale of Mexican Painter and Poet Nahui Olin

Louise DarblayArtReview09 March 2022

In ‘Portraits in Four Movements’, Chloe Aridjis retraces the life of the woman who captured the imagination of Diego Rivera, Edward Weston and many others

Tokini Peterside: How Lagos Became an Artworld Capital

Louise DarblayArtReview24 December 2021

An interview with the founder of ART x Lagos, Nigeria’s first international contemporary art fair, which has acted as a catalyst for the local art scene since 2016

Where Are You From? Tash Aw’s Memoir on Estrangement and Belonging

Louise DarblayArtReview26 October 2021

A moving family memoir serves as a lens to tell the wider story of migration in Southeast Asia

Nick Cave’s Melancholic Photographs of Lost Gloves

Louise DarblayArtReview14 October 2021

The brooding rockstar’s self-published polaroids track the new normal, as knitted mitts are superseded by rubber gloves

Medieval Grotesque: Gareth Brookes, ‘The Dancing Plague’

Louise DarblayArtReview04 August 2021

A graphic novel reimagines the famous case of mania that overtook the city of Strasbourg in 1518

What François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce Means for the French Artworld

Louise Darblayartreview.com29 July 2021

Who is this Paris museum – designed by Tadao Ando to house the luxury goods magnate’s art collection – actually for?