Benjamin Sutton

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian |Torey Akers |Gameli Hamelo

The first full-scale retrospective on the late great painter and sculptor Jack Whitten (1939-2018)brings together more than 175 works spanning his six-decade career. His large-scale mosaic-like compositions—made from hardened acrylic paint cut into thousands of tiles—figure prominently, as do his mixed-media assemblage sculptures.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

After the administration of US President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) cancelled around $65m in grants made by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) last month, the Mellon Foundation has stepped in to provide $15m in emergency funding for humanities councils in all 50 states and six US territories.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

Manhattan’s Times Square is a cauldron of sensory excess, but until 17 June, a 12ft-tall figure of self-assured introspection is looking out calmly and confidently over the area’s throngs of tourists and buskers. Grounded in the Stars (2023) is a bronze sculpture by the British artist Thomas J. Price depicting a fictionalised woman standing, hands on hips, in a contrapposto pose.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

The vast festival halls of Navy Pier were crowded with collectors, curators, artists and other VIPs by the late afternoon on Thursday (24 April) for the preview of Expo Chicago (until 27 April). The fair’s 12th edition and second since it was acquired by the international fair and media company Frieze features more than 170 galleries from 36 countries, including a large contingent of South Korean galleries on hand with support from the Galleries Association of Korea.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent extensive conservation at the Getty. The painting, Christ Carrying the Cross (around 1565), will go on view at the Los Angeles museum on 1 May.