Benjamin Sutton

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

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A hot pink tree sculpture sprouts amid New York's leafy High Line

Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree is on show close to the Shed, Frieze New York's venue

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

Christie’s kicks off New York’s spring auctions with record-breaking Rousseau

The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen

A century of Ellsworth Kelly in pictures

As the American painter's 100th birthday approaches, a look back on his life and legacy in photos

An overdue retrospective for an artist in touch with America’s dark ‘underbelly’

Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour

Abstraction is ascendant at New York’s Future Fair

The fair, a haven for fresh painting, may signal a coming shift in the market power dynamic between representation and abstraction

‘Nothing beats mileage for developing your own collecting vision’: Komal Shah on what she collects and why

Former tech executive and California collector dreams of purchasing the entire suite of Hilma af Klint paintings

Nevada Museum of Art acts to reduce its carbon footprint—and energy costs

The museum’s ambitious climate action plan, unveiled amidst a $60m expansion, calls for cutting its building emissions in half by 2025

Hungry art student eats Maurizio Cattelan’s banana work

The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall

Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy reach for the skies with Chicago airport sculpture

The artists’ installation, featuring two monumental hands reaching out to each other, has been installed at O’Hare International Airport

Towering Louise Bourgeois Spider sculpture could reach $40m at Sotheby’s

The ten-foot-tall metal arachnid is being sold by a Brazilian foundation and could reset several auction records

Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024

The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024

Gallery Climate Coalition launches New York chapter with nine-member founding committee

Artists, dealers, advisors and institutional leaders are among the founders of the environmental non-profit’s new chapter

The mystic and the Modernist: Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian

We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England

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Appeals court judges hear latest argument in Nazi-era Guelph Treasure restitution claim

Heirs of the dealers who sold the collection of medieval artefacts to the Prussian government claim their case can be heard in US court because the dealers were not German citizens at the time of the sale

Art and diamond dealer accused of funding Hezbollah is charged with evading US sanctions

Nazem Ahmad, a Lebanese businessman who deals in art and diamonds, has allegedly been involved in moving goods worth more than $440m into and out of the US since sanctions were imposed in late 2019

Art in the Windy City: Expo Chicago fair and beyond

Plus, how Northern Ireland's museums are marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and an extravagant portrait of a 19th century French actor

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Famed Florida collector Beth Rudin DeWoody shows off her Chicago purchases

Opening during Expo Chicago, the exhibition “Neo Chicago” highlights works in DeWoody’s vast collection by artists with ties to the city, from McArthur Binion and Angel Otero to Amy Sherald

Ukrainian artists reflect on Russia’s war at Expo Chicago

Kyiv-based Voloshyn Gallery is showing works by two emerging Ukrainian artists on its stand at Expo Chicago

'Collect art with passion, purpose and values': Catherine Sarr supports artists through purchases, prizes and residencies

Sarr and her husband, Mamadou-Abou Sarr, organise an annual prize that supports emerging French artists and brings one of them to Chicago for a residency

Chance the Rapper becomes Chance the Curator at Expo Chicago

The beloved Chicagoan rapper will present works related to his forthcoming album, Star Line Gallery, at the fair

Curators come together at Expo Chicago to talk care

The fair's forum for curators this year will look not only at issues related to the care of objects, but also caring for staff, visitors, communities and more

Auctioneer admits he helped create fake Basquiats seized by FBI in museum raid

Michael Barzman, who formerly ran an auction company that bought and resold the contents of storage lockers, said in plea agreement that he and another man made and sold 20 to 30 fake Basquiats

The Metropolitan Museum’s great hall to be transformed by kaleidoscopic Jacolby Satterwhite video installation

The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received art gifts from billionaire conservative donor

The gifts given to Thomas or on his behalf include a painting of him and his wife and $105,000 to fund a portrait at his alma mater

Seattle Art Museum receives 48 Calder works and $10m from former Microsoft president and his wife

The trove of works from Jon and Kim Shirley includes many mobiles and stabiles, and comes with a commitment to fund ongoing programming on the artist

Conceptual artist Jessica Vaughn wins new Frieze prize, will bring mail art project to New York fair

Vaughn is the recipient of the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize, which will commission a New York-based past Artadia awardee to present a project at Frieze New York