
Ben Luke
Ben Luke is a contributing editor and podcast host at The Art Newspaper
From VR masterpieces to PR disasters: 2017's ups and downs
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
As waters rise, artists answer a call to action
Florida is on the frontline of global warming—a crisis that demands creative thinking
Podcast episode 12: Old Masters after the Leonardo and Art Basel in Miami Beach
We talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And we get Judd Tully’s views on Miami’s annual art fair.
Lubaina Himid's win is richly deserved but raises questions about the future of the Turner Prize
It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones
Podcast episode 11: antiquities now and Rose Wylie
How is the antiquities trade coping with increased focus on Middle East looting and new approaches to collecting? And Rose Wylie on the pleasures and struggles of painting
Podcast epsiode ten: restoring Iraq’s heritage, plus the complex politics of First Nations art
John Darlington of the World Monuments Fund discusses projects to train local people in craft traditions and the curator Victor Wang on the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, whose first European solo show opens in London next week
Podcast episode nine: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records
How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia
Podcast episode eight: how hackers are attacking the art world
Galleries are losing huge sums to cybercrime, what makes them vulnerable? Plus: the dubious restoration along the Camino di Santiago.
Podcast episode seven: the tale of an Old Master forgery scandal
The 'masterpieces' that fooled the art world. Plus: a review of London's latest shows, from Cezanne to Soutine.
Podcast episode six: trouble at Unesco, plus Art and Terror
Why did the US pull out of the organisation? Plus: 9/11 and its impact on art at London’s Imperial War Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
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