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Exhibition on the Art of the Neapolitan Baroque Features Intricately Crafted, Monumental Nativity Scene at Colnaghi During London Art Week
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
Opening in conjunction with London Art Week, Colnaghi presents a special exhibition showcasing the enduring creative legacy of Old Master artists and artisans from Naples. Marking the first exhibition in London devoted to the Italian city and its arts in over forty years. As the centrepiece of ...
'An American Place' Exhibition Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State
ArtfixDaily / November 24th, 2021
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a leading university art museum in 2022 with a rich array of exhibitions, programs and events throughout the year. The festivities will be bookended by captivating exhibitions that spotlight the Palmer’s outstanding ...
Toomey & Co. Dec. 2 Auction to Feature Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Weed Holder and Rediscovered Alphonse Mucha Painting
ArtfixDaily / November 28th, 2021
Oak Park, IL — Toomey & Co. Auctioneers’ December 2 Art & Design sale will feature a rare and important museum quality weed holder by Frank Lloyd Wright. The vase is one of 11 known examples, with others found in the collections of prestigious museums such as ...
$30 Find at Estate Sale May Be Dürer Sketch Worth $50 Million
Smithsonian Magazine / November 23rd, 2021
A Massachusetts man who picked up a yellowed drawing for $30 at an estate sale in 2016 may have found an unknown work by a master. The unframed work on linen, monogrammed 'A.D.', was picked up for its fine quality by the man, who prefers to remain anonymous. Years later, experts contend it is a ...
Record-Smashing $43.2 Million U.S. Constitution Will Be Loaned to Crystal Bridges; Early Printing of the Bill of Rights Heads to Auction
ArtfixDaily / November 23rd, 2021
A group of over 17,000 investors who gave to ConstitutionDAO in an effort to purchase a rare document "for the people" were outbid by a private collector. The cohort crowdfunded in Ethereum cryptocurrency to bid on an extremely rare privately-owned copy of the original printing of the U.S. ...
Qatar Museums to Transform Nation into Outdoor Art Museum With Over 40 Newly-Installed Public Works By Artists From Louise Bourgeois to Bruce Nauman
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
Qatar Museums (QM) has announced plans to transform the nation’s landscape into a vast outdoor art museum experience in celebration of Qatar’s hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 Games. Beginning now and continuing until the opening of the World Cup in November 2022, Qatar Museums will install more ...
'Dormzilla': Blowback Continues Over Billionaire's Design of Mega-Dorm With Windowless Rooms
New Yorker / November 18th, 2021
For $200 million, the University of California, Santa Barbara, has greenlighted one billionaire's plan to house thousands of students in windowless rooms within the world's largest dormitory---to considerable backlash on social media, national media and student-led petitions. ...
From Grandma Moses to Jamie Wyeth, Freeman's American Art Week Is Led By Marquee Names From Single-Owner Collections
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
This December, Freeman’s presents American Art Week, a unique collector’s opportunity featuring three back-to-back sales of American painting, prints, sculpture, and works on paper. American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz begins at 2pm on ...
Exhibition Explores Printmaker Who Brought Audubon’s Vision to Life
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
Before John James Audubon’s The Birds of America became one of the world’s preeminent records of natural history, there was the matter of printing this incredible ornithological study. The lengthy and laborious process—which took more than a decade—was taken on by Robert Havell, Jr., an engraver ...
Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Achieves Record For Latin American Art at $34.9 Million, Far Exceeding Benchmark Set By Diego Rivera
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
The tearful self-portrait that Frida Kahlo painted later in her life sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, setting a record for Latin American art at auction. Diego y yo (“Diego and I”) is one of Kahlo’s final self-portraits before her death in 1954, and is a prime example of ...
Crypto Mogul Snaps Up $78 Million Giacometti, Records Fall in Sotheby's $676 Million Sale of Macklowe Collection
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2021
The first of two sales featuring the art collection of divorced New York billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe brought a staggering $676.1 million at Sotheby's this week. On Monday in New York, 35 works were offered with auction house guarantees, and 21 lots had irrevocable bids. Each lot ...
'The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick' Exhibition Spotlights A California Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / November 11th, 2021
Coming this winter, the Crocker Art Museum will present The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick. Held on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s founding, this is the largest exhibition on the Candy Store Gallery to date with more than 100 multimedia works. The Candy ...
'Seeing the Unusual' Exhibition Spotlights California Painter and Illustrator Sam Hyde Harris
ArtfixDaily / November 14th, 2021
Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, a nonprofit southern California cultural center, presents a new exhibition of artwork by historic California painter Sam Hyde Harris (1889-1977) and related events, from November 19, 2021, through February 2022. Sam Hyde Harris, Seeing the Unusual sheds ...
'Borderlands' Opens Major American Art Reinstallation at The Huntington
ArtfixDaily / November 14th, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is set to open “Borderlands,” a new permanent collections installation that explores a more expansive and contextualized view of American art history. Envisioning American art through the theme of borderlands, the exhibition will debut ...
Marie-Antoinette's Diamond Bracelets Bring Over $8 Million at Auction
CNN / November 10th, 2021
A pair of diamond bracelets that belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, went for more than double its high estimate at auction in Geneva on Tuesday. Consisting of three strands of diamonds each and containing 112 stones, the bracelets sold for $8.2 million, the second highest ...
Milton Avery Exhibition Brings Together Nearly 70 Prime Examples
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2021
Now on view (through January 30, 2022) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, a traveling survey of American master Milton Avery showcases some of his finest works, dating from the 1910s to the mid-1960s. From abstractions to scenes of daily life, celebrated paintings also include ...
'On Contested Terrain' Surveys Celebrated Photography of An-My Lê
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2021
After debuting at Carnegie Museum of Art, a new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum presents the first comprehensive survey of the work of celebrated photographer An-My Lê (American, born Vietnam, 1960). Opening December 3, 2021, in the museum’s Baker/Rowland ...
The Arts Society's Artvent Calendar Offers a Free Digital Daily Treat For the Festive Season
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2021
An innovative digital take on the traditional advent calendar, The Arts Society’s Artvent Calendar offers 31 days of digital art experiences and events to delight and surprise throughout the month of December. Behind each door of the digital calendar art lovers will discover a range of daily ...
Exhibition Exploring How French Art and Design Inspired Walt Disney Will Open at The Met in December
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2021
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts will be the first-ever exhibition at The Met to explore the work of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ hand-drawn animation. Opening December 10, it will draw new parallels between the magical creations of the Disney Studios and their ...
Italian Women Artists Celebrated in Groundbreaking Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Travels to Detroit Institute of Arts
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
A collaboration between the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Detroit Institute of Arts (Dia), By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, is on view now to January 9, 2022, at the Wadsworth, and travels to the Dia, February 6 – May, 29 2022. An exhibition solely ...