Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
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
Princess Diana gown, Lebron James jersey and ornate Bronze Age disc lead Sotheby’s latest cross-category auction experiment
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections
Detroit Institute of Arts ordered to keep Van Gogh painting as lawsuit over its ownership heads to appeals court
A judge had previously dismissed the lawsuit brought against the Michigan museum in a dispute over the canvas “The Novel Reader”
Looted archaeological artefacts worth more than $20m returned to Italy
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
Jewish collectors’ heirs sue the Guggenheim for return of Blue Period Picasso
The heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler claim “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse)” (1904) was sold under duress by the fleeing couple and are seeking its return—or as much as $200m in compensation
San Francisco gallerist filmed spraying unhoused woman with hose arrested and charged with battery
Shannon Collier Gwin could face up to six months in prison if convicted
Kim Kardashian buys amethyst cross worn by Princess Diana at Sotheby’s
A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war
Former manager at the Art Institute of Chicago accused of stealing $2m from the museum
The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years
Amid national crisis, Beirut builds museum to house hidden art collection
Two years after an explosion caused billions of dollars of damage, the Beirut Museum of Art has broken ground in the Lebanese capital
Film on Nan Goldin and her campaign against the Sacklers shortlisted for best documentary Oscar
Laura Poitras’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is one of 15 films on the shortlist to be nominated in the documentary feature category at the 2023 Academy Awards