
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding
The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series
The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, in recognition of the couple's $75m gift
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Bridges Foundation have teamed up for the nationwide loan programme spanning from Huntsville, Alabama, to Big Horn, Wyoming
The vote comes as museum administrators and members of UAW Local 2110 seek to reach a new collective bargaining agreement that addresses healthcare costs and inflation
The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring
Finn, previously the chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, starts at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in August
Entry to the institution’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass timber home along the Mississippi River will be free to local residents in perpetuity
Many patterns emerge across the 56 participants’ works, from an interest in complicating our understandings of US history and interventionism, to new approaches to looking at and making images
The artist’s new large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park pay homage to the island’s diaspora and its most beloved figures
The sale offered signals for optimists that the market is rebounding, and set new auction records for Joseph Yaeger, P.S. Krøyer and Pat Passlof
The merger, to be completed in 2028, will bring the Ronald Lauder-founded Neue Galerie’s exceptional holdings of German and Austrian Modern art into the Met’s encyclopaedic collection
It is not only many of the fairgoers at Frieze New York who are fresh off the plane from the Venice Biennale. Quite a few of the works on the stands at the Shed are by artists who have just made a splash in Koyo Kouoh’s central exhibition 'In Minor Keys', at national pavilions or in collateral shows in Venice
From the High Line to Brooklyn Bridge Park, artists are thinking big across the five boroughs
This champion of Detroit’s art scene is set to open her own culture space, funded by the sale of key works from her collection at Sotheby’s New York
The British artist's playful riff on a reclining nude will hold court at Bowery and Prince Street for two years
The artist’s year-long residency at the Driehaus Museum centres on a recurring dance piece in the recently renovated Murphy Auditorium
Amy Sherald, Tschabalala Self and Jordan Roth turned heads at the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute
George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles
For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, the Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has created a 27ft-tall version of the 6th-century Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001
As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to
The forthcoming expansion will add gallery space, a patio and an outdoor event area
The two Expo Chicago satellite fairs compliment the main event with accessible settings filled with ambitious presentations
The fair’s first edition under director Kate Sierzputowski aims to offer a more tightly curated experience
From Seoul-born artist Dabin Ahn’s first solo show with Document to dancehall and reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players
The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others
The fair is foregrounding its reputation as a place to discover new galleries and artists, with nearly half of exhibitors showing at Independent for the first time
Artists and dealers have really gone out on a limb this year—or several. Seemingly every other stand holds out a hand or sticks out a foot, and visitors appear to be getting a kick out of it.