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Benjamin Sutton

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Professionally: journalist, critic, copy jockey, pun-slinger, and global editor-in-chief at The Art Newspaper. Personally: occasional curator, croissant connoisseur, smothering cat dad, and year-round cyclist.

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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excellent abstraction abounds at Independent 20th Century, taking place for the first time at Sotheby's Breuer building, including Marie Wilson showing with Gallery Wendi Norris (left) and Mary Grigoriadis showing with Ortuzar (right). More highlights: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/25/i...
An abstract painting by the artist Marie WilsonAn abstract painting by the artist Mary Grigoriadis
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The exhibition, 'If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground', curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography to visualise a possible narrative of Till’s life had he not been murdered at age 14. buff.ly/xTX5gKC
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The superstar musician, entrepreneur and art collector Beyoncé turned 45 on 4 September and she marked the occasion not only by releasing a deluxe anniversary edition of her legendary 2006 album B’Day, but also by donating $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem. buff.ly/9nHNdeS
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama died on 14 August at a hospital in Tokyo from multiple organ failure, according to an announcement from the Yayoi Kusama Foundation on Thursday, 27 August. The foundation said Kusama “continued to paint until shortly before her passing, never setting aside her brush”. buff.ly/crQDxw4
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The charismatic Dolly Parton, who died yesterday aged 80, was not just a country music legend, rhinestone queen and philanthropic trailblazer—she was also a muse for artists from Warhol to Annie Leibovitz over her nearly 60-year career. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/26/w...
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The US State Department has deinstalled and is considering selling a Kehinde Wiley painting, commissioned through its Art in Embassies initiative, that Trump officials have said is "aesthetically terrifying" and exemplary of "globalist and woke ideologies": www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/25/k...
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Trump officials take down, explore sale of Kehinde Wiley painting commissioned for US embassy
The monumental painting was recently deinstalled from the US embassy in the Dominican Republic, with ambassador Leah Campos calling it an example of “globalist and woke ideologies”
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Indigenous Art Centre has been unable to locate 111 works from its collection of more than 5,000 pieces by First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/c...
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Mary Heilmann, a tirelessly inventive New York painter and sculptor (and teacher) who was perhaps best known for her daring palette of bright tones (owing in part to her Californian roots), has died, aged 86: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/m...
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Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86
A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into somethin...
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The president has ordered the National Park Service to put up signage near the entrances to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History warning would-be visitors of what the White House sees as the museum's "ideological capture": www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/28/t...
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Trump orders signage to be erected outside Smithsonian museum warning visitors of political bias
US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw's 65-foot-long hot dog sculpture is back in Times Square on the occasion of the US's 250th anniversary festivities, now with some patriotic fixins: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/24/j...
A sculpture of a giant hot dog with patriotic elements in Times Square
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
After it closes in spring 2027, the California College of the Arts in San Francisco will be reborn as Vanderbilt University's Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in honor of the world's seventh-richest person: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/21/v...
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Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang
The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, in recognition of the couple's $75m gift
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Legal proceedings seek to halt a long-term loan agreement authorised by Mexican authorities concerning works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and other national treasures. buff.ly/bC86USh
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A New York exhibition celebrating Venezuelan contemporary artists has been transformed into a fundraising effort after the powerful earthquakes that struck the country on 24 June, killing at least 1,700 people and leaving widespread destruction in their wake. buff.ly/FdGuSH3
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I wonder how Tony Shafrazi feels about his gallery getting name-dropped in a Madonna song; tagging "Guernica" is one kind of infamy, but this is indisputably cooler: youtu.be/Abty86vTsV0?...
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Madonna - Danceteria (Official Audio)
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled buff.ly/BVg7hIS
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Some thoughts and favorites from the 2026 Whitney Biennial, including Akira Ikezoe, Erin Jane Nelson, Mao Ishikawa, David L. Johnson, Raven Halfmoon, Carmen de Monteflores (pictured), and more: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/2...
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The photographer’s estate has accused the dealer James Danziger of leveraging an unauthorised AI-generated piece to push a commercial venture to colourise other artists' works. buff.ly/IwaQ7Rg
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The ceramicist Roberto Lugo has created a giant urn that serves as a monument to important Puerto Ricans in Madison Square Park: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/22/r...
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As celebrations of the US’s semiquincentennial kick into gear, many of the historical sites that recognise the country’s diverse, complex history are in peril. buff.ly/BHVsOe8
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New auction records were set for works by Joseph Yaeger, P.S. Krøyer and Pat Passlof at Phillips last night, and for any two-dimensional work by Lee Bontecou, by this epic fractal wave composition in pastel on canvas, which nearly doubled its high estimate. 🌊 www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/20/p...
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
So long Neue Galerie, hello "the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie"! Aside from the name, seems like a win-win merger for both parties: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/14/n...
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New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum
The merger, to be completed in 2028, will bring the Ronald Lauder-founded Neue Galerie’s exceptional holdings of German and Austrian Modern art into the Met’s encyclopaedic collection
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Echoing the words of Lori Fogarty: "We must do what we can in this moment, and do it with courage and conviction." www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/27/c...
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Comment | Museums are civic institutions. It’s time we acted like it
At the Oakland Museum of California we often say: “Keep doing the good work.” We need to be clearer about what the work is and how we commit to it
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Curate, you must, George: the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art's namesake co-founder is curating 18 exhibitions spanning 30+ galleries and 100,000 square feet for the institution's opening in September. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/30/l...
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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art reveals inaugural exhibition lineup
George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, the Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has created a 27ft-tall version of the 6th-century Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. buff.ly/CHbl0ev
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Some thoughts and favorites from two Expo Chicago satellite fairs—one of which, the delightful Barely Fair, continues through Sunday: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/10/b...
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Chicago’s Neighbors and Barely fairs show the strengths of smaller, alternative formats
The two Expo Chicago satellite fairs compliment the main event with accessible settings filled with ambitious presentations
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Paul Pfeiffer, the conceptual artist known for interventions in mass-media imagery of athletes and entertainers, will be the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/02/p...
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Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena
The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
More than 300 Mexican cultural professionals are calling for clarity surrounding the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo and others buff.ly/0XqmSWy
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Nearly 200 artists, curators and art workers involved in this year’s Venice Biennale (9 May–22 November) have signed a letter calling for Israel’s exclusion from the event. buff.ly/aVE0CCc
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Museum of Conremporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone,” which she made by dissecting and reconfiguring a statue of Stonewall Jackson. It is one of the centerpieces of “Monuments,” the landmark show at MoCA and The Brick: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/24/l...
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Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles acquires Kara Walker sculpture made from dissected Confederate monument
Walker’s “Unmanned Drone” is a centrepiece of “Monuments”, a landmark exhibition at Moca and The Brick
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
At Mexico City Art Week’s foremost satellite fairs, Material and Salón Acme, artists look to nature for ways to adapt to crises: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/07/f...
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At Mexico City’s Material and Salón Acme fairs, artists find hope in nature
The two foremost satellite fairs of Mexico City Art Week are drawing record crowds and feature strong presentations by artists and galleries from across Mexico and throughout the Americas
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Zona Maco, Mexico City's foremost art fair—and the largest in Latin America—continues to draw enormous crowds of collectors and curators, reflecting rising interest across the Western Hemisphere: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/06/z...
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Mexico City’s Zona Maco fair continues to draw upbeat crowds and eager buyers
Latin America’s foremost art fair, now in its 24th year, remains a magnet for collectors, curators and museum groups from across the Western Hemisphere and beyond
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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US National Gallery of Art acquires important Artemisia Gentileschi painting
The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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Open letter calls for ouster of Art Gallery of Ontario trustee who led vote against Nan Goldin acquisition
The institution will also overhaul its committee structure in response to the scandal
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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...
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US art spaces from New York to Los Angeles will close in protest of violent Ice actions
Commercial and non-profit galleries are participating in the national day of action, which comes after federal immigration enforcement agents killed US citizens in Minneapolis and Los Angeles
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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...
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Rediscovered portrait by the Renaissance’s leading woman artist goes on display at the Winter Show
A rare painting by Sofonisba Anguissola resurfaced in a private collection after it was thought to have been lost
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The 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
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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Northern California museum and sculpture park puts its property up for sale
The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its Napa Valley property for sale for $10.9m
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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Museums and galleries in Minneapolis join citywide general strike in protest of Ice operations
In protest of federal immigration enforcement officers’ violent campaign in the city, hundreds of local business and organisations will shutter on 23 January
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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...
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‘Freedom plane’ to take US founding documents on tour for country's 250th anniversary
US National Archives documents from the 18th and 19th centuries will tour museums from Kansas City to Seattle
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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The California College of the Arts will close in 2027
Last remaining nonprofit art-and-design school in Northern California to shutter after next academic year, when Nashville-based Vanderbilt University will take over campus
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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...
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Trump pulls US out of international cultural property preservation centre and coalition of arts agencies
In a memo announcing the withdrawals, the president said the organisations ran “contrary to the interests of the United States”
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
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Buyers of art collective's controversial food industry project to decide young cow's fate
The work, which has sparked online backlash, will see buyers of the project's tokens choose whether Angus becomes hamburgers and handbags, or is sent to live at an animal sanctuary
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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...
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Kathleen Goncharov, influential curator who helped many artists ‘realise their dreams’, has died aged 73
Alongside her work at organisations such as New York’s Just Above Midtown gallery and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, Goncharov was also an artist
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia
Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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...
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Mary Anne Carter, National Endowment for the Arts chair during Trump’s first term, takes the helm again
Carter has been serving as the agency’s acting chair since January
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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56 participating artists, duos and collectives revealed for 2026 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US powe...
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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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San Antonio Museum of Art repatriates nine antiquities to Italy
The artefacts, most dating from the 4th century BC, include a terracotta statue of a woman and elaborate red-figure vessels
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Gareth Harris @garethharr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
All we want for Christmas: The Art Newspaper 2025 gift guide www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/12/a...
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All we want for Christmas: The Art Newspaper 2025 gift guide
From raunchy Tom of Finland merch to a sponsorship deal for a Victorian loo—here are some of the arty items that have caught our eye this season
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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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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Nas & DJ Premier - "Writers" (Visualizer)
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