2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor

This exhibition successfully traverses the terrain of art and geopolitics—an area often littered with clunkiness and earnest failure

American artist Jafa's recent video work recontextualises Wonder's song 'As' as well as the film 'Taxi Driver'

The institution, which is about to welcome the first students to its new home, takes a refreshing and genuinely democratising approach to art education

All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

Jorrit Britschgi, executive director of the Rubin Museum of Art, on ‘embracing non-attachment and impermanence’

The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other masterpieces in its collection

The Readying the Museum group has created a blueprint to help institutions address inequity within their own walls—and to make the public, rather than trustees, their key priority

The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions

Day visitors should pay €25 as for the Uffizi but be made proud to help save the city

Venice can still be saved from the rising water level: here’s how

Renovations need to win out over new extensions, says sustainability professor Martin Müller, and museums need to 'get back to basics'

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum just opened a Stanley Whitney retrospective—the 77-year-old artist's first museum survey

Sleeper hunter dealers must recognise they have an asymmetrical relationship to vulnerable people pressured by circumstance to sell off their treasured heirlooms

The London institution may have woken up to its responsibility of presenting its role in Britain’s imperial past. But please don't go back to sleep...

With traditional philanthropic models on the wane, US institutions like the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Andy Warhol Museum are engaging in unconventional partnerships and launching spin-off businesses

The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining

There are some very spurious arguments coming from those resisting the return of the marbles to Greece

Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off

Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums

Primary-market sale proceeds should be held on trust so artists are never left out of pocket by a gallery's insolvency, writes IP and art lawyer Jon Sharples

By 2100 the water-level will ring rise one metre, and yet it aims to block UNESCO in-danger listing

Julia Halperin examines the often mysterious recruitment procedure for new museum directors in the US, which has come under increased scrutiny

The "arm's length" principle, which frowns on political meddling in museums, is being eroded by policy hawks, writes artist and activist Bob and Roberta Smith

'It turns out that dancing about architecture—or filming about music—can produce great art'

There are plenty of encouraging dynamics in the city this summer

A recent list of young art "disruptors" published by a UK newspaper underlines the insidious dynamics of privilege which continue to define our industry

With auction sales faltering and a respected commercial gallery going into administration, Ben Lewis sees echoes of the slump of 2008