
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others
The promised gift from museum trustee John Pritzker includes pieces by Man Ray, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp and others
After overseeing four editions of Art Basel’s French fair, Delépine will take the helm at the Fondation Galeries Lafayette’s art and culture space
The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors
The Manhattan- and Maine-based collectors discuss some of their beloved works and the shows they are excited to see in New York this month
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s secretary, wrote in a staff letter and another addressed to the White House that the institution will continue its internal review
This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Nicole Martinez
This season’s bounty of outdoor art includes bronze gates near City Hall, a layered sound installation in Brooklyn Bridge Park and a mural honouring graffiti history at MoMA PS1
Exhibitions honouring a Native American Modernist, a new generation of photographers and others are on the itinerary
“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met’s hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18
The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian
The artist Erica Kovitz used the remainders of blunts smoked by Tha Doggfather to make a series of mixed-media works
Brian Ferriso will inaugurate the expansion of the Portland Art Museum on 20 November and start his new job in Dallas on 1 December
The US president’s criticisms come as the White House begins a review of the Smithsonian’s programmes and exhibitions
In a letter to the Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch, members of Trump’s administration said they want to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism”
Works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and others from the Pearlman Foundation are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art
The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment
Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga
The Star Wars director, appearing at the famed conference for the first time, described the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as “a temple to the people’s art”
Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director at the investment firm Blackstone, was elected to the Met’s board in February
The Art Market Integrity Act proposed by a bipartisan group of US lawmakers would bring US regulation in line with Europe and the UK
The president’s signature bill, approved by the US Senate on 1 July, is expected to add trillions of dollars to the national debt
In addition to revealing the 74 recipients of new Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grants, the foundation announced it will extend the initiative another five years
The artist’s 37ft-tall “Split-Rocker” was donated to the museum by collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick
The activist from Last Generation Canada said “more resources have been put in place to secure and protect this artwork than to protect living, breathing people”
A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work
The non-partisan Government Accountability Office says the Trump administration illegally impounded federal funding that had been approved by Congress
Sajet said it was “not an easy decision” but “the best way to serve the institution I hold so deeply in my heart”
The fair’s September 2025 edition will include a new design sector and have a focus on artists from the American South
The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others