
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
Artist who won second series of Netflix Blown Away competition begins residency at Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York
The fair, always a destination for discovering artists—be they young and emerging or older and overlooked—features several presentations foregrounding underappreciated photographers
From Carlito Carvalhosa at Galeria Nara Roesler to Haley Josephs at Jack Barrett
A show at Brooklyn’s Haul Gallery by Peter Clough featuring explicit imagery provoked a visit from a man claiming to represent the building’s landlord
The measure, which was approved by the lower house of Congress unanimously, now heads to the Senate
Morrison, whose work remained rooted in the landscape even as it evolved from figurative to quasi-Fauvist to Abstract Expressionist, was a pioneering figure in Native American modernism
From Deana Lawson at MoMA PS1 to Kyle Staver at Half Gallery
The new festival will open in September with a musical performance by the War on Drugs and a hot air balloon launch by Doug Aitken
The biennial’s 2023 edition will feature more than 140 artists including Kader Attia, Hassan Hajjaj, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid and Carrie Mae Weems
Sofika Zielyk, a scholar and pysanky artist, is gathering ornate eggs from across the world at the Ukrainian Institute of America with an eye to send them to Ukraine when the war ends
From Kathy Ruttenberg at Lyles & King to the treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
Mako Komuro, a former member of Japan’s imperial family, is reportedly volunteering her time to help with a forthcoming exhibition of hanging scroll paintings
Francis Hines was a well-known artist most famous for wrapping the Washington Square Park arch in fabric, but after he died in relative obscurity, in 2016, his work was nearly lost forever
The foundation’s grants will be distributed through partnerships with PEN America and the World Monuments Fund
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
From Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery to Daniel Lie at the New Museum
The latest iteration of the Whitney Museum's closely-watched exhibition is structured around a contrast between light and dark, but a few motifs provide alternate ways of navigating the massive show
Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer
From Robert Irwin at Pace to Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman
Aliza Wong, a professor and scholar who has written extensively about modern Italian history and culture, will take the reins in July
The two-metre-tall statue, which the museum acquired for $2.5m in 1986, was allegedly excavated illegally in the 1970s
The new additions to the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios reflect an effort to add greater diversity to the network of sites
The removals are the result of a mutual agreement between the museum and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
The massive ‘Stan’ skeleton is one of two major scientific discoveries destined for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island
Research published by forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis suggests the brilliant fresco fragment may have been illegally excavated near Pompeii
From Hollis Sigler at Andrew Kreps to James Turrell’s ode to Ad Reinhardt at Pace
New York mayor Eric Adams has allegedly selected Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, to lead the largest municipal arts department in the US
The museum, founded by the late Noah Davis and his wife, the artist Karon Davis, announced the sudden closure in a statement that offered few specifics but alluded to inner turmoil
The committee, established in 1958, advises the president on pressing issues in the arts and how federal policies can help shape them
Museums in the UK, France, Austria and Spain recalled their works, effectively postponing the Moscow Kremlin Museums exhibition indefinitely