Benjamin Sutton

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

‘Breathe in the air and go to the beach’: Karla Harwich shares her Miami tips and latest acquisitions

The Miami native and El Museo del Barrio board chair reflects on the works that got away and her family favourite Miami meals

‘It was Pak’s work that truly ignited our love for digital art’: Desiree Casoni and Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile on their trendsetting collection

The Miami-based designer and NFT platform founder have long championed digital artists, but they still have a love of the great painters

‘I would love to have a Louise Bourgeois spider in my garden’: Ariel and Daphna Bentata on their adventurous collection

The Miami-based couple started their collection 31 years ago with a taste for contemporary art and the local flavors of Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami's splashy acquisition at Nada fair

The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery

At Miami Beach's Untitled Art fair, three artists win Vortic prize

The digital art platform bestowed its top prize on a decidedly analogue work

‘Each body of work is exceptional to me’: George Merck on inception pieces and the maquette that got away

The Palm Beach-based art collector is drawn to works that play with light, and plans Miami nights with rigour

Full colour: celebrating 15 years of street art in Miami’s Wynwood

A new book reveals the exuberant and varied work created by numerous artists that has been key to the rejuvenation of the district north of the city’s downtown

Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From ambitious new projects by Andrea Chung, Rachel Feinstein, Marguerite Humeau and José Parlá to shows devoted to the revered and recently deceased artists Jacqueline de Jong and Keiichi Tanaami

US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city

101 exhibitors revealed for Frieze Los Angeles fair's 2025 edition

Preparations for the fair come as with Frieze parent company Endeavor is exploring a potential sale of the British art brand

Phillips's contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m

The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell

Remains of second victim of 1985 Philadelphia police bombing discovered at Penn Museum

The museum, which previously came under scrutiny for possessing the remains of another victim of the MOVE bombing, has been conducting an inventory of its biological anthropology section

US authorities return antiquities valued at $10m to India

The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener

San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to close indefinitely

Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”

Billionaire collector Ken Griffin gives $10m to Pérez Art Museum Miami

The gift was announced in tandem with the museum’s annual Art of the Party gala, where Griffin and the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos were honoured

Hate crime charges for three suspects in vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes

The alleged vandals are said to have targeted the homes of board members with “Jewish-sounding names”

Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit

The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition

Climate change, racial violence, systemic inequity: New Orleans triennial confronts many of society's biggest problems

The latest edition of Prospect looks at how the city has been a harbinger for different issues, such as the climate crisis and the traumas of racial violence

Gift of more than $45m and 331 works for the Clark Art Institute

The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing

Marian Goodman Gallery opens sprawling Tribeca headquarters

The 47-year-old gallery has made a big move Downtown—to street level—and launched its new space with a sprawling show of works by 50 artists

Whitney Museum to waive admission fees for 25s and under thanks to gift from Julie Mehretu

The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy

Darren Walker elected board president of US National Gallery of Art

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

The acquisition doubles the museum’s space for public programmes, which it will use for a new media gallery, permanent collection displays and more

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino gets $2m donation from PepsiCo

The soft drink company's gift will support the planning, designing and building of the museum's future complex in Washington, DC

US Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging Smithsonian's restitution of Benin Bronzes

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

Artist-designed billboards opposing Donald Trump and supporting Kamala Harris go up in battleground states

The campaign, organised by the non-profit People For the American Way, includes images by Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Kass, Alyson Shotz, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas and others

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