Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees

From the high emotions of Taryn Simon’s professional mourners to photography galore at Somerset House and the Hayward Gallery

Martin Bailey speaks to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the artefacts seized by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes of the Sony World Photography Awards with judge Gareth Harris and ask Richard Parry about his plans for Glasgow International

We hear from Adam Lowe of Factum Arte about a new TV series in which seven lost paintings are recreated. And speak to Norman Rosenthal and Thaddaeus Ropac about the great German artist.

We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures

Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia

From Michael Rakowitz’s winged bull soaring above Trafalgar Square to the last chance to have a swing at Tate Modern

The artist reveals the story behind the headlines and the film she made about the painting's removal

Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp on decades spent in the company of the Renaissance master, plus, we celebrate the 300th edition of The Art Newspaper

Iraqi-American artist has recreated Assyrian lamassu destroyed by Islamic State

We speak to Thomas Laird about his new book on the murals of Tibet and to Michael Rakowitz about his fourth plinth commission unveiled next week

Salvatore Settis on the moral revival that could save Italy's sinking city, plus Tacita Dean on her three major London shows

The release of a pre-conservation image of Leonardo’s $450m Salvator Mundi reignites debate over the transparency of conservators’ interventions

From Picasso's year of masterpieces at Tate Modern to his fellow Spaniard Murillo's portraits at the National Gallery

We take a tour of Tate Modern's blockbuster and explore the strength of Picasso's market

We meet the men and women behind three fascinating but very different exhibitions of lens-based art

Tate Modern’s major new show focuses on 1932, a period of turbulent creativity that gave rise to some of the artist’s greatest work

The petition to make the proposed border wall a National Landmark is one of the worst excesses of contemporary art and needs to be called out

Documentary breaks with many of the assumptions in the art historian’s seminal series, but it also owes a great deal to it

We talk to the American dynasty’s historian about David and Peggy Rockefeller’s tastes, and explore the funding crisis at Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery

A look at the life and art of the two Austrian greats as shows open marking their 100th anniversary. And the New Museum Triennial is reviewed.

We explore what new ivory regulations will mean for the art world and meet the 2017 Election Artist Cornelia Parker

Expert on Russian art Simon Hewitt discusses developments in The Art Newspaper's current cover story, plus we explore an unusual collaboration at Hauser & Wirth Somerset

The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism

Why the pop artist—a lifelong, closeted Catholic—deserves to be shown at The Vatican

We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year

Highlights of the upcoming photography exhibition by the German photographer

We are at the London Art Fair speaking to Georgina Adam about her art market predictions and to Louisa Buck about the top shows and artists to keep on your radar this year

From Louvre Abu Dhabi to Leonardo, Documenta to Trump, we look back at the year with our journalists Louisa Buck, Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw

Former editor of the The Art Newspaper Jane Morris speaks to Georgina Adam about her new book Dark Side of the Boom and the art world's less savoury side