
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
The vice chair of the Whitney Museum of American Art explains why an early Simone Leigh work would have been a very risky purchase
Project by Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw is a “tongue-in-cheek tribute to and critique of all that the hot dog has come to symbolise”
From The High Line to Marcus Garvey Park, the borough is buzzing with exciting public works
The New York-based collector describes her enduring love affair with Paula Rego’s work and why a Sam Jinks sculpture may not be conducive to a good night’s sleep
The gifts and acquisitions occurred during the museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend
From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine
In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti
The antiquities, collectively valued at $3m, include a bronze “Shiva Triad” from Cambodia that the dealer Nancy Wiener donated to the Denver Art Museum after failing to find a buyer for it
The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970
The painting, which was estimated at between $4m and $6m when it was offered at Christie’s in 2022, is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum
A production company working with HBO has optioned a memoir by Philbrick’s former friend and business partner Orlando Whitfield
Even amid political tensions between the superpowers, officials from both countries emphasised the importance of continued collaboration on antiquities trafficking
More than 40 people bought what they thought were original paintings by Max, but were in fact prints to which the seller had added paint and signatures
The four works, spanning nearly 40 years of the Abstract Expressionist’s career, will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May
The museum’s latest repatriation comes as it ramps up efforts to audit the provenance of objects in its collection
The artist’s dazzling, Boschian composition “Les Distractions de Dagobert” is expected to fetch as much as $18m at Sotheby’s in New York next month
The 150ft-tall, $200m outdoor installation at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development has been closed since 2021 following a series of suicides
The 28 visual artists who are now Guggenheim Fellows will receive between $30,000 and $60,000 to realise specific projects
“The Italian Version of Popeye has no Pork in his Diet”, last publicly displayed in 2007, will be offered by Christie’s during its May sales
Tony Karman and Madeleine Grynsztejn discuss the local ecosystem for artists, the importance of collector education and how they support dealers
The donors, Tod and Cindy Johnson, met and got married during their time at CMU; they will have a gallery named in their honour
From a retrospective of Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg to a group show of Native American photography and video
The artist will project a new commission onto the exterior of what was once the world’s biggest building as part of Art on the Mart
A temporary restraining order against the Des Moines Art Center after artist Mary Miss sued to block the dismantling of her outdoor work
The original budget for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s Espace Riopelle addition was $42.5m, but now as construction begins it has ballooned to $84m
The court-ordered sale of objects that had been stored for years at the expense of taxpayers in Houston was called off the night before
Municipal officials recently approved the Des Moines Art Center’s plans to demolish “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”
Earl Marshawn Washington had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud this past summer
The institution is more than 86% of the way towards its capital campaign’s fundraising goal
Artist Mark Bradford said he picked AHJN for the grant because of its work to "transform young people’s lives through the power of arts education”