Ben Luke

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison

This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery has also rehung its entire collection and Ben Luke takes a tour of both the revamped building and the new displays with the National Gallery director, Gabriele Finaldi.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison

During his lifetime, the late artist Frank Auerbach never had an exhibition in Berlin, the city of his birth, which he left for the UK in 1939 to escape the Nazis. This weekend, the first show of his work in the German capital opens at the Galerie Michael Werner. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to Berlin to talk to the artist’s son, the filmmaker Jake Auerbach, about the exhibition.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke

Of all the comments describing periods of artists’ work, few are more memorable than the verdict of Douglas Cooper, the fierce Cubist connoisseur and scholar, on late Picasso. Undoubtedly influenced by their personal falling out, Cooper wrote after the Spaniard’s death in 1973 that his final works were “incoherent doodles done by a frenetic dotard in the anteroom of death”.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison

Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, The Art Newspaper’s managing editor, Louis Jebb, who has written an extensive obituary of the late pontiff, joins Ben Luke to talk about the late pope’s engagement with art and with the Vatican art collections. Wednesday 23 April was the 250th anniversary of the birth of JMW Turner, one of the greatest British artists.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack

Toor was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1983, and lives and works in New York. His paintings capture everyday moments in the lives of fictional young, queer, Brown men. Set within private and public environments, these scenes speak of a wealth of feelings and experiences, ranging from touching domestic intimacy and love, to communal solidarity, to societal precarity and violence.