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Banksy's Shredded Painting Sells for Artist Record of $25.4 Million
NPR / October 14th, 2021
A Banksy painting that partially self-destructed on the auction block three years ago has sold again, for a record £18.5 million ($25.4 million). "Love is in the Bin," formerly titled "Girl with the Balloon," sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Art evening sale in London on Thursday to an ...
$100 Million Redesign of 1.3 Mile Section of L.A.'s Crenshaw Boulevard to Feature Major New Works by 100 Black Artists
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021
Destination Crenshaw, the $100 million public-private initiative to redesign 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard as an economically thriving business and cultural corridor for Black L.A., took a major step forward on Thursday, as the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission approved plans for the ...
Major Exhibition of Romare Bearden Abstract Works Begins Museum Tour
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021
Romare Bearden: Abstraction, an important traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, is comprised of approximately 55 works by the ground-breaking African American artist. Romare Bearden: Abstraction presents the ...
First Major U.S. Exhibition of Holbein the Younger Brings 16th Century In-Crowd to L.A. and N.Y.
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2021
In the early 1500s, if you wanted to impress people with your good looks and accomplishments, a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger was a sure way to astonish them. In early 16th-century Basel, Switzerland, and Tudor England, Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543) created captivating ...
80 Kandinsky Works Ascend Through His Career in Exhibition at Guggenheim
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2021
On view now through September 5, 2022, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle. Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well ...
Global Perspectives on Surrealism Explored in Groundbreaking Exhibition at The Met
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but understanding of the movement has come primarily through a Western European orientation. The major exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism beyond boundaries of geography and ...
Man Ray: The Paris Years
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' upcoming exhibition, Man Ray: The Paris Years, will be on view in Richmond from October 30, 2021, through February 21, 2022. Organized by Dr. Michael Taylor, VMFA’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education, the exhibition includes more than ...
Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie's Star Keeps Rising With Over $180,000 Sale of 'Pyramid and Moon'
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
Kaminski Auctions' special fall fine art auction on September 19 at the North Shore Art Association, in Massachusetts, featured a small oil painting by Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) that soared to $181,250 (with fees) from a $10/15,000 estimate. Dated 1946, the 10¼ by 12½ inch ...
De Young Museum Presentation of Alice Neel Blockbuster To Spotlight Her Time in San Francisco
ArtfixDaily / October 11th, 2021
Following its run at the Met, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present the first comprehensive museum survey of work by American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) on the West Coast. This retrospective positions Neel as one of the 20th century’s most radical painters–one who championed ...
Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
After premiering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in April, an exhibition of Karl Bodmer's portraits of Indigenous people has arrived at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and then will continue on to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX.) in fall 2022. During the early ...
A Rediscovered Masterwork, 19th Century Paintings and Pomo Basketry Combine In Traveling Exhibition 'Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo'
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo explores the intercultural exchange between French-born and -trained American artist Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) and the Indigenous Pomo community of Elem at Clear Lake in Northern California. The exhibition is on view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Protecting Native American Sites, Boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments Are Restored
NPR / October 10th, 2021
Boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments in Utah were reinstated with a slight uptick to 1.3 million acres total, President Biden announced on Friday. Previously, the Trump administration had reduced the size of the protected area by 85%, notes NPR. At the time, ...
Global Survey of Contemporary Glass Challenges Traditional Conceptions of Glass and Introduces New Perspectives
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
The exhibition “New Glass Now” offers a global survey highlighting the innovation shown by a dynamic selection of makers. Embracing the possibilities of glass as a vital and versatile medium, the featured artists challenge the status quo and represent a modern era in glassmaking full of new ...
New Exhibition Examines Cultural Exchange Between American Artists and Venetian Glassmakers During the Late 19th Century
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
The exhibition “Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the late 19th century and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for visiting artists. It is the first comprehensive examination of American ...
Art Investment Platform Masterworks Is Now Valued at $1 Billion
TechCrunch / October 7th, 2021
Masterworks.io, a pioneering startup offering fractional investment in fine art, raised $110 million in Series A funding at a pre-money valuation north of $1 billion this week. The New York City-based platform reached unicorn valuation following funding from Left Lane Capital, with ...
Ben Grosser's 'Software for Less' Exhibition Takes On Big Tech Issues
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
Through October 23, arebyte Gallery in London presents Software for Less, an exhibition examining the cultural, social and political effects of software on contemporary society, by US artist Ben Grosser. Software for Less takes visitors on a journey through a pseudo tech exposition. Each work ...
Frank Lloyd Wright Will Be the Focus of Kirkland Museum Programming in 2022
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
Denver's Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art celebrates the genius of American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright in 2022 with a calendar full of exhibitions, lectures and tours. “Frank Lloyd Wright is a name that many recognize as an influential American architect, but few may ...
Exemplary American Art On View in 'Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection' at Dallas Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / October 5th, 2021
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is set to present Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection, an exhibition of the excellent Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May. Pursuit of Beauty features 28 19th- and ...
'Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950' Debuts at The Whitney on October 9
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950, an exhibition of works drawn primarily from the Museum’s collection that celebrates the innovative abstract art made by women in the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition features over ...
Preview Selections of American Art in 'The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum'
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
The Morse Museum of American Art’s fall exhibition The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum opens on November 9. The exhibition showcases the exquisite collection assembled by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins over the course of fifty-five years. As announced in March ...