
Ben Luke
Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper
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An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Elsa Schiaparelli to Parliament/Funkadelic.
Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid
The Whitechapel Gallery director tells us about her favourite writer, what she has been watching recently, and the cultural experience that changed the way she sees the world
An unquenchable thirst for a certain set of young artists—with the eye-popping price-tags to match—is creating a pressure they are inevitably unable to meet
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Robert Rauschenberg to Roland Barthes
Plus, Shirin Neshat on Iran's uprising and Puerto Rican art after Hurricane Maria
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Agnes Martin to Frankie Knuckles
Plus, how long left of the good times in the New York auction world? And abstract Black figuration
Plus, the US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund and one of the last paintings of Paula Modersohn-Becker
Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel
Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges
Plus, Art Basel's inaugural Paris+ fair and an enigmatic Frank Bowling painting
Architect Frank Gehry claimed his design for the Spanish satellite museum was neutral and would not compete with the art within—did he succeed?
We pick our top six booths from the fair's Focus section
Plus, Cecilia Vicuña; 20th-century women artists at Frieze Masters; and Modigliani in Philadelphia
The artist’s Turbine Hall commission draws on an Andean method of record-keeping
Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jackson Pollock to Virginia Woolf
As a string of exhibitions celebrating 100 years since the artist's birth open, we look at a major show at London's National Gallery, a new book of his letters and his paintings of horses
The American artist was a brilliant colourist who pushed figuration to its limits but never went the way of “the abstract boys”. Plus, what the other critics said about the show
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Manet to Shostakovich
Plus, Carnegie International, the US's longest-running contemporary art exhibition, and a mystifying egg sculpture
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Donna Haraway to Isamu Noguchi
Plus, how UK museums can respond to the energy crisis, and a haunting Henry Fuseli painting
Hoping to increase his visibility, Brown will self-fund a Marylebone space that will combine his work with those of historic artists in his private collection
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Salvador Dalí to Maria Lassnig
Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
The institution denies claims that it refused to allow the increasingly prominent Black performance artist Jade Montserrat to participate in a project for Tate Exchange