Benjamin Sutton
Editor, Americas at The Art Newspaper
Copy jockey, pun-slinger, and Editor, Americas at @theartnewspaper. Journalist, editor, critic, occasional curator, smothering cat dad and year-round cyclist.
Articles
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1 week ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton
Scholars, curators and collectors of historical paintings are breathing a little easier today. A looming crisis in the conservation field caused by the discontinuation of two key ingredients needed to produce a popular adhesive used to line historical canvases has been averted.
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2 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton
The Korean artist Lee Ufan, a leading figure of the abstract art movement Mono-ha, is donating eight of his paintings to the Dia Art Foundation in New York. The works, spanning the 1970s to the 90s, will be featured in a spring 2026 exhibition at the foundation’s complex in Beacon, New York, alongside sculptural installations already in Dia’s collection.
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2 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a $1bn project that has been under construction since 2018 and is expected to open sometime in 2026, has laid off 15 full-time employees and another seven part-time employees. The layoffs represent a 14% reduction in the museum’s full-time staff. A Lucas Museum spokesperson told The Los Angeles Times that the staff reductions were “due to a necessary shift of the institution’s focus to ensure we open on time next year”.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton
Sotheby’s closed out a week of high-stakes evening auctions in New York on Thursday night (15 May) with a successful three-part sale that consistently hit the auction house’s targets. And though there were minimal fireworks, there were also no major flops, no small feat given the macroeconomic uncertainty that has hung over the spring sales amid US President Donald Trump’s global trade war and uncertainties about the tariff regimes, and fears of recession.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a promised gift of more than 6,5000 works from one of the world’s foremost photography collectors. The German American collector Artur Walther and his Walther Family Foundation will give the institution a trove of works including exceptional post-war and contemporary photography from Africa, Japan, Germany and China, as well as vernacular photos from Europe and the Americas.
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