
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
The artist and activist draws inspiration from stories of discrimination against Black and LGBT people in the US
The abstract painter will have a solo show with the gallery at one of its London spaces in 2023
Our picks of the must-see seasonal outdoor and indoor exhibitions, from Wangechi Mutu and Brandon Ndife at the Storm King Art Center to Frank Stella at The Ranch
The 51-year-old experimental art space will fill its complimentary space with rare selections from its archive
A California-based artist says she put expenses totaling $8,000 on her credit card to help stage Sorokin’s solo show in March
Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library
The gallery opened its Chelsea showroom with an exhibition by one of its rising stars, Lauren Halsey, who will transform the Met’s rooftop next summer
Artist Pedro Reyes is turning heads with an installation that evokes a nuclear explosion at the centre of Manhattan, and serving as a backdrop for talks and performances
Combined with the $676.1m take from the first sale in November 2021, the 65 works from the Macklowe collection brought in a staggering $922.2m
From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week
From Ouattara Watts at Karma to Lydia Ourahmane at the SculptureCenter
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