Benjamin Sutton

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

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More than 100 artist donated works to fundraise for Kamala Harris

Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Amy Sherald and many others are offering works through the Artists for Kamala fundraising sale and auction

Jeffrey Gibson, artist representing the US at the Venice Biennale, joins Hauser & Wirth

The mega-gallery is now representing Gibson in tandem with his longtime New York gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co

Hammer Museum names new leader to succeed longtime director Ann Philbin

Zoë Ryan, currently the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will take the helm at the Hammer in the new year

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Artists Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson and Wendy Red Star among winners of 2024 MacArthur ‘genius grants'

Each MacArthur fellow receives $800,000 in unrestricted funds, making it one of the most important prizes available to artists

The Met will study and catalogue 14 ancient sculptures recently repatriated to Yemen

With the country still in the throes of a civil war, the ancient sculptures were returned by a family in New Zealand but will be temporarily kept in New York

National Endowment for the Arts awards $12m in new grants to more than 100 US arts organisations

The grants are part of a new initiative, dubbed ArtsHere, intended to increase community arts engagement in underserved areas

Academy of Arts and Letters launches contemporary gallery at Manhattan headquarters

The space will open with an exhibition devoted to the late Conceptual artist Christine Kozlov

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Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim receive $250,000 Heinz Awards

Jones and Porras-Kim were selected for their rigorous works highlighting, respectively, overlooked sonic phenomena and institutional collecting practices

Must-see shows in New York this Autumn

The season’s standout exhibitions, from Soho to the Bronx

MoMA’s longtime director Glenn Lowry will step down in 2025

Lowry’s 30-year tenure at the museum included many milestones, from the merger that created MoMA PS1 to multiple renovations and expansions

Art Institute of Chicago receives $75m gift to support campus overhaul

The collectors and philanthropists Aaron Fleischman and Lin Lougheed will one day have a building named in honour of their donation, one of the largest in the museum’s history

Truck-based exhibition on bodily autonomy kicks off US tour in New York

The project “Body Freedom for Every(body)” will spend the next three months touring the country in a truck emblazoned with Barbara Kruger’s famous message: “Your Body is a Battleground”

Narcissister’s new show expands on her subversive brand of magic

The artist’s project at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn is her first large-scale performance commission since 2012

Collectible fair offers handcrafted design and artists’ functional objects in New York debut

The Belgian fair’s first stateside edition offers objects for every aesthetic sensibility and budget

Writers for The New York Times, Washington Post and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

The latest cohort honoured by the Rabkin Foundation includes curators, artists, freelance writers, bloggers and salaried writers at major publications

From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars

The purported German heiress’s grand plans to open a Manhattan art club unravelled in 2018 and were the subject of the Netflix series “Inventing Anna”

Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

The survey of the American Mexican sculptor and printmaker will show how activism and art went hand in hand

From ‘Brat summer’ to Brat fundraiser: Charli xcx to headline Lacma gala

The museum’s next Art+Film Gala on 2 November will honour the artist Simone Leigh and the film-maker Baz Luhrmann

Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists

The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists

Noguchi Museum workers walk out in protest against keffiyeh ban

Workers claim the dress code is “not in the best interest of the institution”, while leaders stated their desire to “foster a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment”

Collection of Salvator Mundi Museum in Brooklyn confirmed as safe after break-in

The small storefront institution, devoted to objects and ephemera related to the most expensive painting ever sold, will reopen soon

George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters

One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher

Rothko Chapel in Houston closes due to hurricane damage

The popular pilgrimage site for fans of Abstract Expressionism was damaged during Hurricane Beryl last month

Amid $33m renovation project, Bronx Museum’s executive director departs to lead MFA St Petersburg

Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the Bronx Museum since 2020, will take on his new role in Florida in October

Heavy rains cause partial collapse of ancient pyramid in Mexico

Authorities said that significant precipitation amid a severe drought had undermined the Purépecha structure at Ihuatzio

Harvard University will not rename its Arthur M. Sackler Museum

The decision follows a years-long campaign by activists who urged Harvard to distance itself from the Sackler family over its ties to the opioid epidemic

Activist and journalist charged with hate crimes over vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes

The charges stem from incidents in June, when activists sprayed red paint on the museum officials’ homes as a pro-Palestine protest

Florida man pleads guilty to bombing satirical statue of Lenin and Mao

A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party

Judge orders owner of mysterious African art collection in Houston to hand over works worth nearly $1m to settle legal dispute

The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months

Giant pigeon sculpture will land on New York's High Line this autumn

Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October