Benjamin Sutton
Copy jockey, pun-slinger and Editor-in-Chief for the Americas at The Art Newspaper. Journalist, editor, critic, occasional curator, smothering cat dad, and year-round cyclist.
- The US National Gallery of Art has acquired "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy", an important Artemisia Gentileschi painting that was rediscovered in 2011 and sold for a then-record price at auction in 2014: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Following the Art Gallery of Ontario’s controversial decision not to acquire a work by Nan Goldin after a trustee accused her of antisemitism (and likened her to Leni Riefenstahl), an open letter calling for that trustee’s removal has garnered 500+ signatures: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/03/a...
- Dozens of art spaces across the US—from blue-chip galleries in New York and Los Angeles to non-profits in Arkansas and Missouri—are joining tomorrow's nationwide shutdown in protest of ICE: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/29/n...
- A rediscovered portrait by the 16th-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola is on offer in Robert Simon Fine Art's booth at the Winter Show fair in New York: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/26/r...
- Reposted by Benjamin SuttonThe National Park Service (NPS) has removed an exhibit called “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. The decision comes after president Trump to remove “corrosive ideology” from cultural heritage venues. buff.ly/ni1GGsk
- The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a museum and sculpture park in Northern California, has listed its Napa Valley property (minus the art) for sale, for $10.9m: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/22/d...
- Museums and art spaces in the Twin Cities—including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Dreamsong, and others—will be closed tomorrow in support of the general strike against ICE: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/22/m...
- The US National Archives will send a group of historic documents from its collection on a national tour of eight museums around the country this spring and summer aboard a custom-painted Boeing 737 they've dubbed the "freedom plane": www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/21/u...
- The California College of the Arts, the last remaining nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, will not remain much longer: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/13/c...
- Trump pulled the US out of more than 60 international groups and alliances including the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/08/t...
- Vetoed headline of the week: "The final cow-tdown: buyers of MSCHF’s controversial bovine project will decide animal’s fate" www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/07/m...
- Kathleen Goncharov, an influential curator (and artist) who curated countless exhibitions (including at Just Above Midtown, Creative Time and the Boca Raton Museum of Art), was beloved by artists and commissioned the US Pavilion in Venice in 2003, has died: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/07/k...
- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to Cambodia, the first returns under the Smithsonian’s Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns policy, adopted in 2022: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/23/s...
- Mary Anne Carter, who has been acting chair of the National Endowment for the Arts since Trump's return to power, has been confirmed as chair. She held that role for part of Trump's first term; she previously worked for the Heritage Foundation, among others www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/19/n...
- Promising artist lineup for next year's Whitney Biennial, including Precious Okoyomon, Pat Oleszko, Andrea Fraser and her mother Carmen de Monteflores, Martine Gutierrez, Erin Jane Nelson, comedian Julio Torres, and more: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/15/p...
- The San Antonio Museum of Art has repatriated nine antiquities to Italy, eight of which will remain on display at the museum through a long-term loan agreement with the Italian ministry of culture www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/12/s...
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- Lots to love on the long-awaited Nas and DJ Premier album, including this tribute to graffiti writers that Nas spends about half of name-checking canonic graffiti and street artists, from Lady Pink, Futura, and Taki 183 to Revs, Cost, and so many more: youtu.be/QeR9VfPPwDw?...
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- Legal feud between the Philadelphia Art Museum and its former director Sasha Suda keeps getting uglier, with the museum claiming in a recent legal petition that Suda "misappropriated funds from the museum." www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/p...
- The US State Department has confirmed that Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen will represent the US at the 2026 Venice Biennale, "furthering the Trump Administration’s focus on showcasing American excellence." www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/a...
- Daniel Weiss, Metropolitan Museum leader from 2015-23, is the next Philadelphia Art Museum director. In a lawsuit filed after her firing earlier this month, predecessor Sasha Suda claims Weiss told her of PAM leadership: “It is a very dysfunctional board.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/21/p...
- Following the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, the National Gallery of Art is now fully reopened and all parts of the Smithsonian will be back to normal opening hours tomorrow: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/14/u...
- Patience, you must have: more than a decade after the project first started to take shape, the $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles next September. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/12/l...
- Sasha Suda, who was abruptly fired by the Philadelphia Art Museum last week, is suing the institution and alleging, among other things, "breaches of contract, bad faith, unfair treatment and abuse": www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/10/s...
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- Sasha Suda, the director of the Philadelphia Art Museum (fka the Philadelphia Museum of Art), has been ousted following a divisive rebrand: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/04/p...
- 🗽 It's election day in New York City. 🗳️ Here's where the three leading candidates for mayor stand on arts and culture: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/23/n...
- More than 1,000 objects—including Native American baskets, modernist jewelry, daguerreotypes, scrimshaw and more—were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California's off-site storage site in a robbery: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/30/o...
- Trump has fired all six members of the federal Commission of Fine Arts and will replace them with appointees who "are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies", per a White House spokesperson www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/p...
- The vast new terminal one at JFK Airport will include site-specific commissions by Yinka Shonibare, Kelly Akashi, Tomás Saraceno, Ilana Savdie, Julie Curtiss, Firelei Báez and Woody De Othello www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/27/j...
- Big drama over a big billboard: the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science is suing the Florida Department of Transportation and seeking the removal of a digital billboard erected by its neighbor, the Pérez Art Museum Miami. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/24/p...
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- He don't need permission to curate: BTS member RM will show art from his personal collection at SFMoMA next year. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/03/b...
- Trump administration fires most members of council that advises National Endowment for the Humanities on grants, medals and projects—including Trump's patriotic sculpture park. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/02/t...
- The US National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution museums will stay open for a few more days but, assuming the government shutdown lasts past the weekend, they will be forced to close: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/01/u...
- UC Irvine has finalized its takeover of the Orange County Museum of Art—henceforth to be known as the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/29/u...
- Nine participants in this year's Chicago Architectural Biennial have withdrawn amid objections to a sponsor's stake in a military contractor that has sold weapons to the Israeli army: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/24/c...
- The private Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Japan is offloading 80 works from its collection at Christie's this autumn, led by a Monet waterlily painting expected to bring upwards of $40m: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/19/c...
- The artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt have received this year's Heinz Awards for the Arts and will each get unrestricted cash prizes of $250,000 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/16/a...
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- More than a dozen works from the collection of late casino billionaire Elaine Wynn are headed to Christie's, but its crown jewel—which she bought from Christie's for what at the time (2013) was the most ever paid for an artwork at auction—is going to LACMA: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/09/e...
- Happily not-vetoed headline of the day: “Artist’s doobie-ous Snoop Dogg collaboration tokes in $148,100 at auction” www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/21/s...
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- All the news that's fit to pinto: a group of activist-satirists claims a man is trapped inside Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" (aka the Bean) in Chicago www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/11/c...
- The Brooklyn Museum, Lacma and MoMA are splitting the 63 remaining works in the stellar collection of the Pearlman Foundation (sorry, Princeton Art Museum, where the collection has been housed for almost 50 years, nothing for you): www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/04/p...
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[Not loaded yet] - A bipartisan group of six US Senators has proposed new legislation that would require dealers, auction houses and other art market businesses to comply with anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing guidelines: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/25/a...
- Trump withdraws US from UNESCO, again: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/23/t...
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- Trump's bill boosting spending on the military and immigration enforcement while cutting social safety net programs and clean energy subsidies also includes $40m for his patriotic sculpture park project: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/t...
- "The people who wind up there will be mainly chosen by ethnicity, and almost certainly be convicted of no crime. The lawmakers’ goal is not merely confinement but suffering." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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- The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation just announced another $3.4m in climate grants for US art organizations (74 recipients, big and small, from South Dakota to Puerto Rico), and that it is extending the program for five more years: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/26/f...
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- It's the summer of Edward Burtynsky in New York, with a retrospective at the International Center of Photography, a documentary trilogy at Metrograph, a solo show at Howard Greenberg Gallery and a new AI collaboration with Alkan Avcıoğlu at Heft Gallery: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/19/e...
