Benjamin Sutton

Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.

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SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations

Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker

Robert Smithson’s famed Land art piece Spiral Jetty added to US National Register of Historic Places

The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art

Lorraine O’Grady, conceptual artist who dissected language and dualities, has died, aged 90

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

President Biden establishes national monument acknowledging history of forced assimilation at Native American boarding schools

The monument, at the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, will ensure nobody forgets one of the “most horrific chapters in American history”, Biden said

Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art

Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone

MoMA PS1 receives $1m gift from trailblazing collector’s foundation

The gift to the New York contemporary art centre from the organisation named after David Teiger will help to fund an upcoming exhibition programme

‘Breathe in the air and go to the beach’: Karla Harwich shares her Miami tips and latest acquisitions

The Miami native and El Museo del Barrio board chair reflects on the works that got away and her family favourite Miami meals

‘It was Pak’s work that truly ignited our love for digital art’: Desiree Casoni and Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile on their trendsetting collection

The Miami-based designer and NFT platform founder have long championed digital artists, but they still have a love of the great painters

‘I would love to have a Louise Bourgeois spider in my garden’: Ariel and Daphna Bentata on their adventurous collection

The Miami-based couple started their collection 31 years ago with a taste for contemporary art and the local flavors of Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami's splashy acquisition at Nada fair

The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery

At Miami Beach's Untitled Art fair, three artists win Vortic prize

The digital art platform bestowed its top prize on a decidedly analogue work

‘Each body of work is exceptional to me’: George Merck on inception pieces and the maquette that got away

The Palm Beach-based art collector is drawn to works that play with light, and plans Miami nights with rigour

Full colour: celebrating 15 years of street art in Miami’s Wynwood

A new book reveals the exuberant and varied work created by numerous artists that has been key to the rejuvenation of the district north of the city’s downtown

Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From ambitious new projects by Andrea Chung, Rachel Feinstein, Marguerite Humeau and José Parlá to shows devoted to the revered and recently deceased artists Jacqueline de Jong and Keiichi Tanaami

US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city

101 exhibitors revealed for Frieze Los Angeles fair's 2025 edition

Preparations for the fair come as with Frieze parent company Endeavor is exploring a potential sale of the British art brand

Phillips's contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m

The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell

Remains of second victim of 1985 Philadelphia police bombing discovered at Penn Museum

The museum, which previously came under scrutiny for possessing the remains of another victim of the MOVE bombing, has been conducting an inventory of its biological anthropology section

US authorities return antiquities valued at $10m to India

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to close indefinitely

Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”

Billionaire collector Ken Griffin gives $10m to Pérez Art Museum Miami

The gift was announced in tandem with the museum’s annual Art of the Party gala, where Griffin and the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos were honoured

Hate crime charges for three suspects in vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes

The alleged vandals are said to have targeted the homes of board members with “Jewish-sounding names”

Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit

The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition

Climate change, racial violence, systemic inequity: New Orleans triennial confronts many of society's biggest problems

The latest edition of Prospect looks at how the city has been a harbinger for different issues, such as the climate crisis and the traumas of racial violence

Gift of more than $45m and 331 works for the Clark Art Institute

The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing

Marian Goodman Gallery opens sprawling Tribeca headquarters

The 47-year-old gallery has made a big move Downtown—to street level—and launched its new space with a sprawling show of works by 50 artists

Whitney Museum to waive admission fees for 25s and under thanks to gift from Julie Mehretu

The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy