
Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
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
Did the Metropolitan Museum cover up its acquisition of a Nazi-looted Van Gogh? A new lawsuit alleges so
The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
From the archive | Pope Francis returns Vatican Museums’ Parthenon marbles to Greece
The pope’s decision to give the Vatican’s three Parthenon marbles to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church comes amid mounting pressure on the British Museum to repatriate its marbles to Greece
‘We went from having two Cézannes to three’: x-ray of still life painting reveals hidden portrait
On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master
New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards $58m in grants to more than 1,000 arts organisations
The 1,070 cultural grant recipients, the first since new municipal reforms to correct for funding biases were introduced, are the largest funding cohort in the department’s history
The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
Biden picks rising star at the Smithsonian to head presidential arts committee dissolved by the Trump administration
Tsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Three US museums win prize to fund acquisitions at Expo Chicago fair
Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
Bookforum, Artforum’s literary sister magazine, ceases publication
The publication’s sudden closure comes just days after Penske Media Corporation acquired Artforum
Michigan contemporary art museum will close permanently due to funding shortages exacerbated by the pandemic
The Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, which opened 45 years ago, will shutter for good in February 2023
The college disgrace: School of the Art Institute of Chicago rescinds Kanye West’s doctorate
The artist now known as Ye was awarded a degree by his hometown art school in 2015, but his sustained antisemitic rhetoric caused the school to revoke it
Gerhard Richter, giant of German painting, signs exclusively to David Zwirner gallery
Richter, a native of Dresden, will have his first solo show with the Cologne-born mega-dealer in March 2023
'Buy work from living artists': Becky Gochman—supporter of Indigenous artists—on what she collects and why
The collector sees herself more of a temporary custodian than an owner, she says
Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith’s massive mosaic murals for new Manhattan train station revealed
The artists’ vast new works adorn the Grand Central Madison terminal, which opens to the public later this month
My Tennessee museum home: Dolly Parton plots Nashville institution
The country music superstar, already the subject of a museum at her Dollywood theme park, is planning a cultural complex in Nashville
Sculptor Julien Creuzet wins $20,000 French art prize at Art Basel in Miami Beach
The artist’s work is on show in both Andrew Kreps and High Art’s stands at the fair
'I have a painting of two pig butts—portraying love—hanging in my kitchen': collector Ashley Abess on what she buys and why
The Miami native got the collecting bug young, buying a series of portraits—which still hang in her home—when she was in college
'An African way of seeing and Duchamp’s way of playing': artist Alexandre Diop shares his artistic inspirations
As an exhibition opens at the end of his residency at Miami’s Rubell Museum, the artist explains why discarded found objects are fundamental to his work
From a Keith Haring painting to a mummified Barbie: what collector Mario Cader-Frech buys and why
The adviser to the Untitled Art fair, and champion of contemporary artists from his native El Salvador, has only ever sold two works
From working at the dollar store to exhibiting at the museum next door: artist Didier William returns to Miami
The Haitian-American artist’s largest retrospective to date, staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, is in the very neighbourhood where he grew up
In pictures: journey back in time through the Everglades
An exhibition in Miami of historic photographs marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Florida’s famous Everglades National Park
Gagosian showing new Amoako Boafo work in Miami before hosting his first New York solo show
The Ghanaian painter and market darling has not formally joined the world’s biggest gallery—for now
'I've missed out on works simply by answering an email a little too late': collector Beth Rudin DeWoody on the art she regrets not buying
Art patron owns the West Palm Beach exhibition space The Bunker, which displays works from her 10,000-strong collection
Frieze reveals details of its largest Los Angeles fair to date, with 124 galleries landing at Santa Monica Airport
The fair will take over the west Los Angeles airfield, with strong cohorts of local galleries, international megas and Korean dealers
Records for rising stars and women artists power an otherwise subdued Sotheby’s New York contemporary art evening sale
The firm’s contemporary and “The Now” evening auctions totalled a combined $314.9m and notched new best prices for Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar and Elizabeth Peyton
Record-breaking Mondrian leads an evening of mixed results at Sotheby’s marquee Modern art sales in New York
The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night
Banksy creates mural on bombed out building in Ukraine
The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv
Manhattan district attorney returns 187 artefacts tied to disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor to Pakistan
The objects associated with Kapoor, along with another five pieces returned to Pakistan, were cumulatively valued at $3.4m
US National Gallery of Art gifted $10m to fund acquisitions of works by women
The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán