Ben Luke

Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper

The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid—podcast

Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s auctions, discusses the climate emergency with Louisa Buck and chats to the director of the Wallace Collection

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast

Editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, takes a trip to Harlem, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses Egypt's newest museum and Ben Luke meets a curator of “Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk”

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

MFA Boston returns work by enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi—podcast

Ben Luke discusses the landmark agreement with a curator at the Boston museum, meets the team behind MoMA's new Lam show, and explores a new book on the children of the Renaissance

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

Comment | Fifty years on, John Berger’s writing is still relevant—and troublingly prescient

The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives

Gauguin ‘fake’ is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s head piece—podcast

Ben Luke discusses the Gauguin saga with special correspondent Martin Bailey, and meets the curators of new shows in London and Vienna

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
A brush withinterview

A brush with... Cliff Lauson

The director of exhibitions at London's Somerset House on why he keeps returning to Brian O'Doherty's writing

Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayne McGregor on his new installation—podcast

Ben Luke analyses the political impact of the headline-grabbing theft, explores Goldberg's updated classic book, and discusses the acclaimed choreographer's work ahead of his latest exhibition at Somerset House

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

A brush with… Peter Doig—podcast

Peter Doig talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

Young at art: inside Frieze London's Focus section

Our pick of the best stands in the section devoted to galleries up to 12 years old

Sound and vision: artists take to the decks for Peter Doig’s Serpentine show

The painter’s latest exhibition includes a vintage sound system, through which Doig and a roster of his famous friends, including Brian Eno and David Byrne, will play their favourite tracks

Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and a Renoir drawing for ‘The Great Bathers’—podcast

Ben Luke discusses the mood at Frieze with The Art Newspaper's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, explores the parallel art world that exists for unrepresented artists and catches up with the curator of a new Renoir show in New York

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

The artist’s video installation explores devastating impacts on the environment and Indigenous communities

A brush with… Christopher Wool—podcast

Christopher Wool talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s ‘Cake’—podcast

Alexander Morrison visits Tate Modern to meet curator Osei Bonsu, while Ben Luke discusses Tehran's art market with correspondent Sarvy Geranpayeh and explores Wayne Thiebaud's new exhibition at The Courtauld

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

A brush with… Suzanne Jackson—podcast

Suzanne Jackson talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Bed’—podcast

Alexander Morrison visits the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, while Ben Luke meets curators from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

A brush with… Wolfgang Tillmans—podcast

Wolfgang Tillmans talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn—podcast

Unpacking the issues facing cultural institutions today, plus chats about a Renaissance blockbuster and a ”cut-up” architectural installation in Basel

A brush with… Roxana Marcoci, curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art, says the acting chief curator and senior curator of photography at MoMA, is about considering what it means to be human

Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers—podcast

Ben Luke takes a tour of Kerry James Marshall's critically acclaimed Royal Academy show and meets the curators behind Tate Modern's ‘Theatre Picasso’, and Alexander Morrison discusses the National Gallery's expansion with its director

Comment | Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

The arts education crisis in the UK risks holding the young back from discovering what visual culture can teach us about self-expression, empathy, open-mindedness and more

David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Anderson and Kara Walker—podcast

Ben Luke steps inside the V&A East's latest addition, discusses the Bukhara biennial with our art market editor, and explores a new exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery

Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum—podcast

The Art Newspaper's editor-in-chief in the Americas discusses the Trump administration’s interference in museums, we take an inside look at the season's first art fair and discuss landmark video art

A brush with… Jeffrey Gibson—podcast

Jeffrey Gibson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

Comment | Monet might have seen Venice, but his paintings suggest he didn’t feel it

The Impressionist failed to grasp the innate melancholy of the city he described as “too beautiful to be painted”

A brush with… Teresita Fernández—podcast

Teresita Fernández talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

A brush with… Jane and Louise Wilson—podcast

Jane and Louise Wilson talk to Ben Luke about their influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects
A brush withinterview

A brush with... Natalie Kane, curator of digital design, Victoria and Albert Museum

The curator’s cultural life—from James Turrell’s comfortable immersive orbs to Laura Carreira’s film On Falling

Dancenews

‘You’re so close you can see how their toes grip the floor’: Wayne McGregor on his radical new immersive dance experience

The work, which is travelling to London’s Somerset House in October, comprises a panoramic installation featuring a 12k LED, 26-million-pixel screen