The Year In Review
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2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper's contributing editor
The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023
There is something for every art lover among our pick of the publications—from a forgotten 17th-century painter to a lively history of dyes
From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”
Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
Who had a good year and who had a bad one? We aim to find out
We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes
The past year will mostly be remembered for the ongoing social and economic convulsions caused by Covid-19. But in the art trade, the old world order was being demolished
Each week The Art Newspaper reflects on how big geopolitical developments affect different realms of art and heritage
The pandemic has ripped apart the industry as we know it this year but it has sparked innovation and conversation like never before
Regular contributors, scholars, curators and critics choose their favourite reads from the past year
Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019
Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
In 2018, curators turned into sleuths to track down works that belonged to some of history’s greatest—but often flawed—collectors
We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018
David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year
Contemporary artists are making art from adversity
Museums are facing greater scrutiny over sponsorship and the artists they choose to display
The conservation of masterpieces is happening in the full glare of the public
The Leonardo and Banksy auction spectacles suggested a future in which marketing triumphs. But was it ever thus?
Brazil’s cultural sector must respond to hard-right politics by reconnecting with the wider community
The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget
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
Did the grand tour hit the mark?
Curators, museum directors and artists respond to the year's events
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
