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

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

Dismantlement and reconstruction

Private money makes its mark

Did the grand tour hit the mark?

Golden oldies and small-space blues

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