
Ben Luke
Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper
Camille Henrot speaks about her major new show at Palais de Tokyo
French artist has filled the 13,000 sq. m space in Paris with an exhibition based on the days of the week
Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?
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
Artists and the end of truth
Frieze London’s talks programme focuses on the rise of alt-facts and artifice—a realm historically the remit of artists
Podcast episode four: Frieze special with Peter Blake
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
The sculptures that unite America
As the debate rages about divisive Confederate monuments, five leading US scholars and curators pick the nation’s greatest memorial sculptures
Podcast episode three: how the Getty is shaping southern California’s art scene
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
Podcast episode two: Zeitz Mocaa and London autumn preview
The lowdown on the new Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum in Cape Town. Plus: London's most enticing shows this autumn
Podcast episode one: Nazi loot and Rachel Whiteread
Nazi-loot conference at London’s National Gallery. Plus: Rachel Whiteread on “mummifying the air” at Tate Britain
Three to see: London
From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians
Introducing: The Art Newspaper's new weekly podcast
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Summer art pilgrimages
Artists and curators tell us about the journeys they have embarked on, or hope to make, to see something special. Compiled by Ben Luke
Howard Hodgkin’s 50 years of travels to India revealed in Hepworth Wakefield show
Paintings include one that was thought to have been lost and one of his final works
Kasper König: in praise of an artists’ curator
The artistic director of Skulptur Projekte will be in conversation at Art Basel, celebrating five decades as a champion of public art
Pierre Huyghe creates sci-fi landscape in Münster
French artist’s four galleries chip in for spectacular project in ice rink that could cost more than €1m
Trust and risk: why Documenta and Münster are the artists’ favourite shows
This year’s German exhibitions may come round far less frequently than the biennials, but their influence on artists is immeasurably greater
Münster: reflective art in a neo-Medieval Disneyland
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
Nairy Baghramian: check your privilege
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
Rachel Maclean uses Pinocchio to reflect on post-truth politics in Venice
The Scottish artist’s new film was inspired by the Italian fairy tale and Venice’s Baroque glitter
The path to other dimensions: Christine Macel’s Viva Arte Viva at the Venice Biennale
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
Memories from the director’s chair: five curators look back on their Venice Biennale shows
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
Turner Prize shortlist dominated by painters and older artists as Tate lifts age limit
Hurvin Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Andrea Büttner and Rosalind Nashashibi are in the running for coveted award
Why try to fix the Turner Prize when it ain’t broke?
There is a downside to dropping the age limit of 50 for qualifying artists
Howard Hodgkin dies aged 84
British painter, described as one of the greatest colourists of his generation, won the Turner Prize in 1985 and exhibited widely including at the Met and Reina Sofia
The other lives of artists
The exhibition Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery in London reflects the younger artist’s sharp decline in production once he became keeper of the papal seal. But second jobs did not stop Rubens and Velázquez painting
Nathan Coley sets fire to (a tiny) Tate Modern for London show
Glaswegian artist's works gain pertinence at a time when cultural institutions are being targeted by extremists
From the archive | The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40
As the Parisian cultural behemoth hits a landmark anniversary, figures from the world of art and architecture discuss its legacy
Hadid’s paintings take on a life of their own
Virtual-reality experience is the result of a collaboration between the late architect’s studio, the Serpentine and Google