
Ben Luke
Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper
In March 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR, heralding a new era in extended reality. Will the arrival of the Apple Vision Pro move the medium from artistic experiment to widespread use?
Plus, Angelica Kauffman at London’s Royal Academy and Matthew Wong’s response to a lost Van Gogh
Plus, 100 years of the Surrealist manifesto and Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to her time in 1970s Paris
Plus, Elton John‘s treasures at Christie’s and Factum Foundation’s reconstructed Roman colossus
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the conceptualist Mary Kelly to jazz and ska music
The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining
A tour of a show of drawings by the renowned British artist, plus Bruguera discusses concerns over artist censorship in Germany in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, and a chat about an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences from Paul Cézanne to Miles Davis
Plus, the rise of immersive institutions and Barbara Kruger’s “Untitled (Forever)”
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences from Edgar Degas to Wolfgang Tillmans
Plus, the challenges facing the Old Master market and a lithograph by Honoré Daumier
Plus, Singapore's art scene and a photograph by Zanele Muholi
From the Venice Biennale to the Harlem Renaissance at the Met
'One day our music teacher played us Steve Reich’s early tape works; it was a total revelation'
From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Bourgeois to the violence of Disney cartoons
Plus, EMST, the all-women museum in Athens, and Pesellino’s David panels at the National Gallery in London
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from jazz and drawing workshops to Hieronymus Bosch
In 2023 the bar for shows was so high it was hard to choose the best. But which one was a stinker?
This corner of Manhattan played a pivotal role in the development of artists such as Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly
Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin
An in-depth interview with the British artist, exploring his radical work from the 1960s to today
Plus, a new antisemitism scandal at Documenta and a Kim Lim sculpure on show at the Hepworth Wakefield
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée
Plus, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc and a sculptural installation by Terry Adkins
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Plus, the appointment of the new Venice Biennale president sparks a political row, and a tender portrait by Dorothea Lange
Plus, a project exploring the sounds of migration and Jem Perucchini’s Art on the Underground commission
Plus, Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery in London and Marie Laurencin's 'La femme-cheval'