Benjamin Sutton
Benjamin Sutton is the Editor, Americas of The Art Newspaper.
Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith to create giant mosaics for new Manhattan train station
The 700,000 sq. ft Grand Central Madison, being built beneath Grand Central Terminal, will be home to permanent installations by the renowned artists
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s head of security is running for statewide office in Massachusetts
Anthony Amore, who has overseen security at the Gardner for 17 years, is running as a Republican to be the Bay State’s auditor
Biden re-establishes presidential arts committee whose members resigned en masse over Trump’s response to Charlottesville riots
Trump had dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following members’ mass resignation in 2017
In aftermath of Hurricane Ian's destruction, West Florida art institutions begin to pick up the pieces
While some museums and art spaces escaped largely unscathed—thanks to a mix of thorough preparation and meteorological luck—others in the most devastated areas remain unreachable
Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial
After a 2022 Biennial curated entirely in-house, the Whitney has selected one staff member, Iles, and an independent curator, Onli, to organise the exhibition’s 81st edition
Florida museums close as Hurricane Ian bears down on state’s west coast
Museums between Tampa Bay and Naples face the greatest risk, with a storm surge expected to exceed 10ft in some parts of the region when the hurricane makes landfall
A fixture of the Washington, DC scene becomes its newest contemporary art museum
After nearly 50 years as the Arlington Arts Center, a non-profit space just across the river from DC is being reborn as the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
After 26 years, Guggenheim discontinues prestigious $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize
The biannual award was first given in 1996 to Matthew Barney, and in the years since has honoured some of contemporary art’s biggest names
Lucas Museum delays opening and reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park
The Carnegie International takes on the era of US superpower
Works in the 58th Carnegie International range from an exploration of America’s geopolitical influence to a tree that owns the plot of land it occupies in Pittsburgh
Artist, writer and choreographer Ralph Lemon wins Whitney Museum’s coveted Bucksbaum Award
The prize, given to one artist in every edition of the Whitney Biennial, comes with a $100,000 check
US non-profits have supported more than 130 Ukrainian artists impacted by Russia’s war with emergency and resiliency grants
PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, with funds from the Frankenthaler and Warhol foundations, has given more than $180,000 in grants to help affected artists with emergency needs and to keep practising
Jenny Holzer projection takes over Rockefeller Center in support of freedom of expression
The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US
Québec City museum picks design for $42.5m new pavilion devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has selected Montreal-based firm Les Architectes Fabg to design a pavilion to house its collection of Riopelle works, the largest in the world
At Independent 20th Century, artists who pushed material boundaries get their dues, belatedly
The new fair’s focus on under-recognised figures and bodies of work from last century occasions rich discoveries, including works by artists who were unafraid to challenge material orthodoxies
The artist confronting the history of New York’s slave trade
In her Armory Show solo stand with Higher Pictures Generation, Nona Faustine calls attention to the city’s oft-overlooked and pervasive ties to slavery
What recession? Foreign galleries splurge on Manhattan outposts
Galleries headquartered abroad are inaugurating New York spaces even while taking part in fairs across the city and around the globe
A critical mass of galleries from across Africa are participating in The Armory Show
This year's edition includes galleries with spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa
Obamas’ White House portraits unveiled
Commissioned while Obama was still in office, the portraits would traditionally have been unveiled during the Trump administration, but no such ceremony was ever organised
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
Banksy mural, and the Los Angeles building he painted it on, head to auction
The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m
Former trustees of Florida museum claim they were kept unaware of FBI’s interest in allegedly fake Basquiats
Trustees who say they were summarily dismissed over email as retaliation claim that the board chair concealed information about an FBI subpoena months before the Basquiat exhibition opened
Artist Ebony G. Patterson will co-curate next edition of New Orleans’s Prospect triennial
Patterson, whose work was featured in the triennial’s third edition in 2014-15, will co-curate the sixth edition with Miranda Lash
Meta puts analogue art front and centre in sprawling new Manhattan office
The tech giant’s new complex inside the historic Farley Building features site-specific commissions by Baseera Khan, Timur Si-Qin, Liz Collins, Matthew Kirk, and Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard
Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission
The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery
Biden appoints archaeologists, museum leaders and Acquavella Galleries director to US committee advising on imports of cultural property
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee guides the US Department of State on import restrictions for artefacts and emergency actions related to cultural property
‘This show was in some way my own wake’: Solange Knowles on her Venice Biennale performance, the focus of a new book
The artist, musician and performer discusses ‘In Past Pupils and Smiles’, a performance she staged in Venice in 2019 that is chronicled in a new book
From the archive | Michael Heizer’s City, a vast art project in the Nevada desert 50 years in the making finally opens to the public
The artist’s sprawling gesamtkunstwerk has been described as the largest contemporary artwork on earth, evoking the scale of Mesoamerican cities and Indigenous burial mounds
Outcry over Mexico City’s plan to replace guerrilla ‘anti-monument’ to victims of gender violence with replica of pre-hispanic statue
After an earlier plan for a new sculpture by artist Pedro Reyes was roundly rejected, the municipal government said it had received activists’ blessing to replace the protest monument that stood in its place
Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture receives $8m in state funding for major renovation
The centre, whose art collection is one of the richest in historic and Modern Black art, will put the state funds toward major improvements to its building