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

Höller discusses his new book of games, Murakami chats AI and the television series Shōgun, and two artists talk about a new sound installation at Dia’s New York City space

In the first episode of A brush with featuring an artist duo, Elmgreen and Dragset discuss their influences, and the cultural experiences that have shaped their lives and work

Sprawling survey of the Modernist master, comprising more than 70 works, is a celebration of a remarkable six-decade career

Dispatches from the mega fair, a chat with a chief architect behind the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral, and up close with Parmigianino’s Mannerist masterpiece

An in-depth interview with the conceptual artist, Roy DeCarava’s photographs, James Baldwin’s writing, and the way he infuses painting into his own work

Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica

The curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and co-curator of Present Future at Artissima 2024, on his take on art

An in-depth interview with photographer Jeff Wall, discussing hallucinations, Franz Kafka and the inspiration he draws from comics

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

An in-depth interview with Turner nominee Goshka Macuga, discussing her influences from Eileen Agar to Stanisław Lem—and how she came to dance in her studio

A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI

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

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries depicting the Battle of Pavia on view in San Francisco

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

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

We find out what happened when the art world descended on Paris for Art Basel, speak to Guillermo Kuitca about his new work for Musée Picasso and hear from Małgorzata Mirga-Tas about June, her work soon to go on display at Tate St Ives

Our pick of the highlights from the fair's section for emerging galleries

We find out how the London fair went this year, speak to Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad about their new book and to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about her new show at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

The Iranian-born, Berlin-based artist discusses the beauty that lies in “in-between spaces”, and the relationship between art and democracy

An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work

Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill

An in-depth interview with the endlessly daring Dumas, discussing her admiration for Nicole Eisenman and Diane Arbus, and the impact of Francisco Goya on her practice

A chat with the curator of a new show featuring Monet's Thames views—in the very room where many were painted, plus trips to Basel and Florence for 'Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage' and 'Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules'

“If you don’t create art yourself, you can borrow from artists to express how you feel, how you see the world and what’s important to you.”

An in-depth interview with "collision" artist Robert Longo, who explains the process behind his responses to works by everyone from Jackson Pollock to Rembrandt

The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities