
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
Described as “the first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists”, the Washington, DC museum is adding 20% more gallery space
From New Mexico's short-lived Transcendental Painting Group to the evolution of America through its quilts
In “Seeing Loud: Basquiat in Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, music both sets the stage for and unlocks the meaning of the artist’s enduring, resonant work
The artist will receive $25,000 and a solo stand at the fair showcasing his portraits of agricultural workers
Philadelphia Museum of Art and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art have agreed that the institution in the losing city will send a work to the victorious city #MuseumBowl23
The foundation will soon begin taking applications for the third cycle of its Frankenthaler Climate Initiative to help art schools and museums become more climate-resilient
Commissioned nearly 15 years ago, the bulbous outdoor artwork was delayed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic
Opponents of the plan say Nine Mile Canyon, described as “the world’s longest art gallery”, is too narrow and fragile to accommodate the widened road and increased tanker traffic
The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections
A judge had previously dismissed the lawsuit brought against the Michigan museum in a dispute over the canvas “The Novel Reader”
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
The heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler claim “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse)” (1904) was sold under duress by the fleeing couple and are seeking its return—or as much as $200m in compensation
Shannon Collier Gwin could face up to six months in prison if convicted
A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war
The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years
Two years after an explosion caused billions of dollars of damage, the Beirut Museum of Art has broken ground in the Lebanese capital
Laura Poitras’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is one of 15 films on the shortlist to be nominated in the documentary feature category at the 2023 Academy Awards
The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
The pope’s decision to give the Vatican’s three Parthenon marbles to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church comes amid mounting pressure on the British Museum to repatriate its marbles to Greece
On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master
The 1,070 cultural grant recipients, the first since new municipal reforms to correct for funding biases were introduced, are the largest funding cohort in the department’s history
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
Tsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
The publication’s sudden closure comes just days after Penske Media Corporation acquired Artforum
The Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, which opened 45 years ago, will shutter for good in February 2023
The artist now known as Ye was awarded a degree by his hometown art school in 2015, but his sustained antisemitic rhetoric caused the school to revoke it
Richter, a native of Dresden, will have his first solo show with the Cologne-born mega-dealer in March 2023
The collector sees herself more of a temporary custodian than an owner, she says