
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions
The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen
As the American painter's 100th birthday approaches, a look back on his life and legacy in photos
Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour
The fair, a haven for fresh painting, may signal a coming shift in the market power dynamic between representation and abstraction
Former tech executive and California collector dreams of purchasing the entire suite of Hilma af Klint paintings
The museum’s ambitious climate action plan, unveiled amidst a $60m expansion, calls for cutting its building emissions in half by 2025
The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall
The artists’ installation, featuring two monumental hands reaching out to each other, has been installed at O’Hare International Airport
The ten-foot-tall metal arachnid is being sold by a Brazilian foundation and could reset several auction records
The museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend provides a major boost to its holdings
The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024
Artists, dealers, advisors and institutional leaders are among the founders of the environmental non-profit’s new chapter
We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England
Heirs of the dealers who sold the collection of medieval artefacts to the Prussian government claim their case can be heard in US court because the dealers were not German citizens at the time of the sale
Nazem Ahmad, a Lebanese businessman who deals in art and diamonds, has allegedly been involved in moving goods worth more than $440m into and out of the US since sanctions were imposed in late 2019
Plus, how Northern Ireland's museums are marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and an extravagant portrait of a 19th century French actor
Opening during Expo Chicago, the exhibition “Neo Chicago” highlights works in DeWoody’s vast collection by artists with ties to the city, from McArthur Binion and Angel Otero to Amy Sherald
Kyiv-based Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by two emerging Ukrainian artists on its stand at Expo Chicago
Sarr and her husband, Mamadou-Abou Sarr, organise an annual prize that supports emerging French artists and brings one of them to Chicago for a residency
The beloved Chicagoan rapper will present works related to his forthcoming album, Star Line Gallery, at the fair
The fair's forum for curators this year will look not only at issues related to the care of objects, but also caring for staff, visitors, communities and more
Michael Barzman, who formerly ran an auction company that bought and resold the contents of storage lockers, said in plea agreement that he and another man made and sold 20 to 30 fake Basquiats
The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection
The gifts given to Thomas or on his behalf include a painting of him and his wife and $105,000 to fund a portrait at his alma mater
The trove of works from Jon and Kim Shirley includes many mobiles and stabiles, and comes with a commitment to fund ongoing programming on the artist
Vaughn is the recipient of the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize, which will commission a New York-based past Artadia awardee to present a project at Frieze New York
The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection
Should Kathy Hochul’s state budget for financial year 2024 come to pass, funds for the New York Council for the Arts will be slashed by $61.7m
Ullens was an important collector of contemporary art and, with her husband Guy, opened the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing