Benjamin Sutton

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

National Gallery of Art closes as US government shutdown continues

The Smithsonian’s museums in Washington, DC, and New York City will remain open for now

BTS member’s art collection will go on show at SFMoMA

The museum will display around 200 works from RM’s personal collection and the museum’s holdings

Trump fires members of group that advises National Endowment for the Humanities

All but four members of the National Council on the Humanities were informed via email that their positions had been terminated

US government shutdown will force federally funded museums to close in coming days

Most of Washington, DC’s top attractions will shutter by the beginning of next week unless US lawmakers reach an agreement to fund the government

University of California, Irvine completes takeover of Orange County Museum of Art

As part of the acquisition, the institution has been renamed the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art

New Museum’s longtime director to retire after building expansion opens

Lisa Phillips, who has led the museum through two major construction projects, will step down in April

Participants withdraw from Chicago Architecture Biennial over sponsor’s investment in weapons manufacturer

In a letter to the biennial’s organisers, more than 20 participants wrote that Crown Family Philanthropies’ “sponsorship is incompatible with the values of our work”

Japanese museum’s collection of Western art could bring $60m at auction

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art will sell off its treasures this autumn at Christie’s in New York

Man killed while unloading Warhol-painted BMW for exhibition in Washington, DC

The organiser of the exhibition cancelled the event following the delivery driver’s death

Awardsnews

Artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt receive $250,000 Heinz Awards

Both artists will receive an unrestricted cash prize from the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation

Christie’s expects Elaine Wynn’s collection to bring $75m, while her record-breaking Bacon triptych goes to Lacma

Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others

Metropolitan Museum gifted 188 Dada and Surrealist works

The promised gift from museum trustee John Pritzker includes pieces by Man Ray, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp and others

Clément Delépine leaving Art Basel Paris to lead Lafayette Anticipations

After overseeing four editions of Art Basel’s French fair, Delépine will take the helm at the Fondation Galeries Lafayette’s art and culture space

Artists who defy categorisation take pride of place at Independent 20th Century

The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors

'Some works we have to sit with': Charles Shoener and Eric Richter on committing to a difficult Arthur Jafa work

The Manhattan- and Maine-based collectors discuss some of their beloved works and the shows they are excited to see in New York this month

Smithsonian leader asserts ‘authority over our programming’ in letters to staff and Trump White House

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s secretary, wrote in a staff letter and another addressed to the White House that the institution will continue its internal review

Prizesnews

Writers for The Oklahoman, First American Art Magazine and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Nicole Martinez

Public artpreview

From the streets to the parks and beyond: the pick of this season's public art in New York

This season’s bounty of outdoor art includes bronze gates near City Hall, a layered sound installation in Brooklyn Bridge Park and a mural honouring graffiti history at MoMA PS1

Must-see exhibitions in New York this autumn

Exhibitions honouring a Native American Modernist, a new generation of photographers and others are on the itinerary

The US’s largest Raphael exhibition is opening at the Met next year

“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met’s hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18

More than 150 US arts organisations pledge to resist political pressure

The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian

Artist’s doobie-ous Snoop Dogg collaboration tokes in $148,100 at auction

The artist Erica Kovitz used the remainders of blunts smoked by Tha Doggfather to make a series of mixed-media works

Dallas Museum of Art picks director wrapping up another institutional expansion to guide it through campus overhaul

Brian Ferriso will inaugurate the expansion of the Portland Art Museum on 20 November and start his new job in Dallas on 1 December

Trump accuses Smithsonian of being too focused on ‘how bad slavery was’

The US president’s criticisms come as the White House begins a review of the Smithsonian’s programmes and exhibitions

White House launches review of Smithsonian museums and exhibitions

In a letter to the Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch, members of Trump’s administration said they want to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism”

Museums in New York and Los Angeles receive collection of 63 Modern works

Works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and others from the Pearlman Foundation are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art

Smithsonian museum removes label referencing Trump impeachments

The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment

Robert Wilson, experimental playwright, director and artist, has died, aged 83

Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga

George Lucas reveals new details of Los Angeles museum at Comic-Con panel

The Star Wars director, appearing at the famed conference for the first time, described the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as “a temple to the people’s art”

Metropolitan Museum trustee among victims of deadly Manhattan shooting

Wesley LePatner, a senior managing director at the investment firm Blackstone, was elected to the Met’s board in February