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2 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Philippa Kelly |David Clack
Hew Locke was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, UK, to the artists Donald and Leila Locke. The family sailed from the UK to Guyana in 1966 and Hew was based there until 1980. He returned to the UK to study art in 1980 and now lives in London. Over more than three decades, Locke has explored a panoply of imagery about nationhood, culture and power.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the atmosphere at the fair after a long downturn in the art market and underwhelming auctions last month in New York.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack
Rudolf Stingel was born in 1956 in Merano, South Tyrol, Italy, and lives in New York. He explores myriad ways of making paintings and extending the idea of what painting might be. With both a love of his medium and skepticism about the possibility of creating something new from such a time-honoured discipline, Rudolf explores a range of forms of painting, from abstraction to photorealism.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke
Visitors at Art Basel this year will find it impossible to ignore Katharina Grosse’s commission for the Messeplatz outside the fair. CHOIR (2025) is the latest in Grosse’s enveloping painted environments; it covers the entire square and Messe building in the artist’s customary veils and fields of high colour, made with her spray gun. Though they are composed of these vast colour planes, for Grosse—who was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1961 and lives in Berlin—the paintings are not abstract.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery to talk to her about the paintings—giant and tiny—in the show. The latest Liverpool Biennial has just opened in that great British city; Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, joins Ben to review the show.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the managing director of Ames Yavuz, which is opening a new London gallery to coincide with the weekend events, and Jeremy Epstein, co-director of the Edel Assanti gallery, who is the co-founder and co-director of London Gallery Weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack
Bhabha was born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan, and has been based in the US since 1981—she now lives in Poughkeepsie, New York state. She has achieved a profoundly individual figurative sculptural language, exploring the rich history of her medium while also looking to the future.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Louisa Buck
Now the biggest "gallery weekend" in the world, the fifth edition of the annual London Gallery Weekend (LGW) confirms that even in these turbulent times, the city’s art market ecosystem continues to expand and evolve. Out of 126 galleries taking part across town in central, south, east and west London, 15 are new participants, and of these, 11 are newly established.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Alexander Morrison |Philippa Kelly
A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfathers of kinetic and auto-destructive art. Ben Luke speaks to Roland Wetzel, the director of the Tinguely Museum in Basel about the artist’s life and work, and the events marking the centenary. In Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Fenix, a museum about migration, has just opened, featuring a dramatic stainless steel tornado form on its roof.
