Benjamin Sutton
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Botched Spanish Sculpture Restoration Evokes the Infamy of Beast Jesus
A church in a small Spanish city entrusted the restoration of a neglected artwork to an amateur art restorer. Sound familiar? → Read More
Giant Keith Haring Mural Revealed Nearly 30 Years After It Was Covered Up
Painted in 1986, the mural was covered up with aluminum siding three years later and has only just been brought back to light. → Read More
A Symposium Casts a Critical Eye on Whiteness
Co-organized by the Racial Imaginary Institute and the Kitchen, this weekend's event boasts a powerful lineup of artists, writers, and thinkers on race. → Read More
Banksy Confirms He’s in Paris as New Murals Are Vandalized and Protected
The artist finally confirmed his presence in the French capital, while another unconfirmed work appears to be his tribute to victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks. → Read More
Rumored New Banksy Murals Appear Around Paris
The six new murals include images referring to the migrant crisis and France's attempts to ban hijabs. → Read More
1,500 Yayoi Kusama Mirror Balls Beckon Beachgoers to the Rockaways
"Narcissus Garden" will be on view in a former train garage at Fort Tilden from July 1 until Labor Day. → Read More
Bay Area Protests Trump's Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection
A clandestine modification of a a junk removal billboard and a nighttime projection of a political cartoon called out the president's family separation policy. → Read More
Anish Kapoor Sues the NRA for Showing “Cloud Gate” in Recruitment Video
The artist claims that the gun advocacy group is committing copyright infringement by using an image of his sculpture in a video without his permission. → Read More
How Can Artists Help Shape More Humane Drug Policies?
An artist, an author, a policy expert, and a member of the itinerant Museum of Drug Policy discuss the many impacts of the global drug trade and efforts to control it. → Read More
Reconsidering Our Everyday Gestures and What They Mean
In her upcoming performances on the High Line, Swiss artist Alexandra Bachzetsis appropriates and redeploys gestures and movements from a range of high and low cultural contexts. → Read More
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Return to the Louvre in New Music Video, Picking the Greatest Hits
But the pop music royals stick to the museum's main attractions in "Apeshit." → Read More
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each
Based on what they do with the money, four of the grantees will receive an additional $25,000. → Read More
Artists Support Themselves Through Freelance Work and Don't Find Galleries Especially Helpful, New Study Says
A study based on a survey of more than 1,000 practicing visual artists sheds light on the economics of making art. → Read More
Anti-Brexit Work by Banksy that Was Initially Rejected by Royal Academy Goes On View
The street artist originally submitted the work under the pseudonym "Bryan S Gaakman." → Read More
Imagining and Exploring Better Ways to Get Around NYC
The Van Alen Institute's FLOW! festival features a range of talks and activities to help designers, urbanists, and New Yorkers of all stripes find new ways of navigating New York. → Read More
Artists Teach You How To Make Collaborative Drawings, DIY Reliquaries, Read Tarot, and More
The third edition of the omnivorous BombPop!Up series of workshops and performances takes over the National Academy of Design. → Read More
Over 400 Lichtensteins Go to the Whitney Museum and an Early van Gogh Sells for $8.3M
Plus the fossil of a 150 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur fetches $2.4 million at auction. → Read More
Check Out Artists’ Studios in South Brooklyn, from Red Hook to Bay Ridge
Nine spaces will be open for this weekend's South Brooklyn Open Studios event. → Read More
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 96 Works and the Getty Gets Bronzes by Claudel and Rodin
Plus a comic book collector donated more than 3,000 objects to the Library of Congress. → Read More
An Experimental Music Collective with Fluxus Undertones Comes to Brooklyn
Since it was formed in 1996 by former students of composer and Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Marginal Consort has gathered once every year to perform without any planning or rehearsal. → Read More