
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party
The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months
Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October
The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year
McMillan joins as the New York City fair, which was acquired by Frieze last summer, prepares for its 30th anniversary edition in September
The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September
More than a decade after it opened, the art and nature park at the Indianapolis institution has $3m in new funding and its first new show
From former classrooms, locker rooms, labs, a gymnasium and an overgrown football field, art is present in nearly every space
The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution
The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century
Fabricant’s wife Laura Paulson, a former Christie's rainmaker who helped launch Gagosian Art Advisory, has also left
Exhibitions of the artist's work at museums in Florida, Minnesota and Nebraska have been postponed
The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”
Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists
The fair debuted in 2023 on the same dates and in the same building as The Armory Show
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is examining the circumstances surrounding the renowned school’s closure, and Philadelphia’s city council is planning hearings
David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years
The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War
Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard
The museum will vacate its historic premises on Park Avenue South this autumn
The digital resource, created by US non-profit National Coalition Against Censorship, catalogues incidents from cancelled exhibitions and performances to removed works
In addition to the prize money, the interdisciplinary artist will receive a solo show that debuts at The Contemporary Austin in Texas, then travels to the Flag Art Foundation in New York
The auction giant’s web address currently redirects to a placeholder page where telephone numbers for its various offices are listed
Between days of testimony by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, the former president is meeting NFT collectors at Mar-a-Lago
The expansion of the influential programme’s library and archives will be named the Keith Haring Wing in recognition of a gift from the artist’s foundation