
Ben Luke
Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper
It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones
How is the antiquities trade coping with increased focus on Middle East looting and new approaches to collecting? And Rose Wylie on the pleasures and struggles of painting
John Darlington of the World Monuments Fund discusses projects to train local people in craft traditions and the curator Victor Wang on the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, whose first European solo show opens in London next week
How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia
Galleries are losing huge sums to cybercrime, what makes them vulnerable? Plus: the dubious restoration along the Camino di Santiago.
The 'masterpieces' that fooled the art world. Plus: a review of London's latest shows, from Cezanne to Soutine.
Why did the US pull out of the organisation? Plus: 9/11 and its impact on art at London’s Imperial War Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
French artist has filled the 13,000 sq. m space in Paris with an exhibition based on the days of the week
What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses
Frieze London’s talks programme focuses on the rise of alt-facts and artifice—a realm historically the remit of artists
As the art world descends on London, we take the pulse of the city's art scene with an art market specialist, a collector and two artists, Peter Blake and Ed Fornieles
As the debate rages about divisive Confederate monuments, five leading US scholars and curators pick the nation’s greatest memorial sculptures
The story behind Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles; Ming Wong on the historic queer art show in Taipei. Plus: an exclusive audio work by Zardulu the Mythmaker
The lowdown on the new Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum in Cape Town. Plus: London's most enticing shows this autumn
Nazi-loot conference at London’s National Gallery. Plus: Rachel Whiteread on “mummifying the air” at Tate Britain
From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians
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Artists and curators tell us about the journeys they have embarked on, or hope to make, to see something special. Compiled by Ben Luke
Paintings include one that was thought to have been lost and one of his final works
The artistic director of Skulptur Projekte will be in conversation at Art Basel, celebrating five decades as a champion of public art
French artist’s four galleries chip in for spectacular project in ice rink that could cost more than €1m
This year’s German exhibitions may come round far less frequently than the biennials, but their influence on artists is immeasurably greater
The fifth edition of the sculpture show, held every ten years, corrects a gender imbalance but continues a melancholy tradition, according to its chief curator
As she features in Documenta 14 and takes centre stage in Münster this summer, the Berlin-based artist discusses her approach to these major public exhibitions and the need to be wary of sensation and spectacle
The Scottish artist’s new film was inspired by the Italian fairy tale and Venice’s Baroque glitter
The French curator behind this year’s main show discusses her belief in art’s transcendent power and her desire to create a focused exhibition
Selecting dozens of artists, dealing with a quirky organisation and navigating an idiosyncratic city—all under the gaze of a rapt art world—make curating the greatest art show on earth a test. Here, the five most recent artistic directors recall their experiences
Hurvin Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Andrea Büttner and Rosalind Nashashibi are in the running for coveted award
There is a downside to dropping the age limit of 50 for qualifying artists