Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
New York governor proposes 56% cut to state arts funding
Should Kathy Hochul’s state budget for financial year 2024 come to pass, funds for the New York Council for the Arts will be slashed by $61.7m
Art collector Myriam Ullens killed outside her home in Belgium, allegedly by her stepson
Ullens was an important collector of contemporary art and, with her husband Guy, opened the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing
Artist Colette Veasey-Cullors will be the next dean of New York’s International Center of Photography school
Veasey-Cullors, who currently serves as an interim vice provost at the Maryland Institute College of Art, takes the helm of the Manhattan-based photography school in June
Deal reached in dispute over Van Gogh painting held at Detroit Institute of Arts
While the parties have reached an agreement, the museum says it spent $100,000 on its defence and that the injunction against it sets a dangerous precedent
New York’s Guggenheim Museum hires curator of art and technology
Noam Segal is the institution's first LG Electronics Associate Curator, a new position in partnership with the Korean electronics giant
The New Museum selects curators for its next triennial, the first following its $89m expansion
The triennial’s sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Chicana muralist Judith Baca receives National Medal of Arts in White House ceremony
Baca is among the 12 individuals and organisations receiving the US federal government’s top honour for artists and art patrons this year
Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada
Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess
Major Bill Traylor painting that previously belonged to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is gifted to the American Folk Art Museum
The painting, which belonged to the late playwright Lanford Wilson, was donated to the museum by his Circle Repertory Company co-founder, Tanya Berezin
Smithsonian women’s history museum names its first director
Nancy Yao, the director of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, will take the helm at the in-development Washington, DC museum in June
Lacma adds more high-profile board members as it inches closer to $750m fundraising goal for new building
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says it is now 98% of the way to its fundraising goal for the campaign to construct its controversial Peter Zumthor-designed building
Adam Weinberg stepping down as Whitney Museum director, with chief curator Scott Rothkopf succeeding him
During Weinberg’s tenure, the Whitney built and moved into its new Meatpacking District home, saw attendance increase threefold and navigated a series of scandals
Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be the first artist to curate a show at the US National Gallery of Art
Smith’s exhibition will include works by around 50 living Native artists, including several that have recently been acquired by the NGA
More than $55m raised toward Smithsonian’s planned American Women’s History Museum
The museum, one of two new Smithsonian museums in advanced planning stages, garnered major support from Walmart heiress Alice Walton, fashion designer Tory Burch and others
Tipsy visitor falls on Do Ho Suh installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
An attendee at a private event reportedly fell into one of the South Korean artist’s architectural installations made of bright, transparent fabric
After winning Super Bowl bet, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum will receive Thomas Eakins painting from Philadelphia Museum of Art
The work will go on temporary display in Kansas City by late April
Winners of prize supporting rising film-makers revealed at Frieze Los Angeles
Irene Gil-Ramon wins $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award from initiative that nurtures burgeoning local talent
In pictures: Frieze Los Angeles goes big with towering sculpture, large-scale installations and more
Many of the works on show capitalise on the soaring spaces offered by this year's new location at Santa Monica Airport
'Look with your eyes, not your ears': the best collecting advice Allison Berg's been given and the Kaari Upson sculpture under the stairs
The writer, editor, producer and collector has a passion for Martin Puryear and 'badass' Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
'Just relax. You don’t have to have everything': Danny First shares advice for new collectors and his fantasy of sitting for Lucian Freud
An artist and collector, First runs a residency programme and operates a gallery from a shed in the backyard of his Los Angeles home
Artist installs quilt-covered airplane at Frieze Los Angeles's Santa Monica Airport venue
Basil Kincaid's sculpture at the fair incorporates textiles the artist has sourced from St Louis, Ghana and elsewhere since 2016
US National Museum of Women in the Arts to reopen in October following $67.5m renovation
Described as “the first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists”, the Washington, DC museum is adding 20% more gallery space
Eight must-see exhibitions to see during Frieze Los Angeles
From New Mexico's short-lived Transcendental Painting Group to the evolution of America through its quilts
An exhibition framing Basquiat’s art through music rings true
In “Seeing Loud: Basquiat in Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, music both sets the stage for and unlocks the meaning of the artist’s enduring, resonant work
Artist Narsiso Martinez wins Frieze Impact Prize for series highlighting migrant workers’ plight
The artist will receive $25,000 and a solo stand at the fair showcasing his portraits of agricultural workers
An art bet for the big game: US museums wager loan of painting on outcome of Super Bowl
Philadelphia Museum of Art and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art have agreed that the institution in the losing city will send a work to the victorious city #MuseumBowl23
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s $10m climate change initiative to launch new funding round
The foundation will soon begin taking applications for the third cycle of its Frankenthaler Climate Initiative to help art schools and museums become more climate-resilient
Anish Kapoor’s shiny 'bean' sculpture in New York finally completed
Commissioned nearly 15 years ago, the bulbous outdoor artwork was delayed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic
Preservationists raise alarm over plan to widen road through petroglyph-filled canyon in Utah used by oil tankers
Opponents of the plan say Nine Mile Canyon, described as “the world’s longest art gallery”, is too narrow and fragile to accommodate the widened road and increased tanker traffic
US National Gallery of Art acquires major work by overlooked Native American Abstract Expressionist
The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection