Benjamin Sutton

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Jori Finkel

The Broad museum in Los Angeles has broken ground on its $100m, 550,000 sq. ft expansion project, which will increase its gallery space by 70%. Designed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), which created the museum’s original building in 2015, the expansion is scheduled to open in 2028—just in time for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Tom Seymour |Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian

A climate activist who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of an Edgar Degas ballerina sculpture in 2023 was found guilty on Tuesday (8 April) of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States” by a federal jury.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

The US’s largest union of museum and library workers and the largest library association in the world are suing President Donald Trump’s administration to block its efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) by the non-profit organisation Democracy Forward and the law firm Gair Gallo Eberhard.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC is sending treasures from its collection to institutions in ten states to celebrate next year’s US semiquincentennial. Under the auspices of the programme, dubbed “Across the Nation”, museums from Alaska to North Carolina will exhibit choice works by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Berthe Morisot, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Alma Thomas, Sol Lewitt and Winslow Homer, among others.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) began informing the agency’s grantees this week that their funding was being cancelled immediately. In messages sent to state humanities councils and other NEH grantees—some signed by the agency’s acting director, Michael McDonald, others from an email address affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)—recipients were told that the funds would instead be allocated “in a new direction in furtherance of the president’s agenda”.