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...
