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'This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World' Examines the State of Contemporary Craft in America Today
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2022
“This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World” showcases the dynamic landscape of American craft with 171 artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s extensive holdings of modern and contemporary craft, including 135 recently acquired works made by a broadly representative and ...
$15.2 Million Ernie Barnes Painting Among Record-Setters in Christie's Over Billion-Dollar Auction Week
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2022
Christie’s Spring 2022 Marquee Week held its final evening sales on Thursday, May 12 with three blockbuster auctions: The Collection of Anne H. Bass achieved $363.1 Million, The 20th Century Evening Sale achieved $468.2 Million, and The Raptor sold for $12.4 Million. The night achieved $843.7 ...
'At First Light' Exhibition Surveys Maine as an Essential Site of Inspiration for Artists Across Two Centuries
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2022
This summer, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) in Brunswick, Maine, will present At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, an expansive exploration of how artists have shaped our understanding—and often, quite literally how we see—Maine’s landscapes, communities, and people. At ...
'The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist' Brings Together Visionary Works at New-York Historical Society
ArtfixDaily / May 5th, 2022
This summer, the New-York Historical Society presents an exhibition of German American artist Winold Reiss’ work, spanning the fields of painting, drawing, graphic design, interior design, and decorative arts. The Art of Winold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist, on view July 1 – October 9, 2022, ...
'At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism' Offers a Broad Perspective at The Whitney
ArtfixDaily / May 5th, 2022
Opening this weekend, At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, an exhibition of over sixty works by more than forty-five artists that highlights the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The ...
Ira Simon Collection Outstrips Expectations in Toomey & Co.'s 'White Glove Sale' to Benefit Art Institute of Chicago
ArtfixDaily / April 28th, 2022
The sale benefitting the Art Institute of Chicago more than doubled highest estimate. Total with premium was nearly $1.9 million, exceeding the cumulative high estimate of $772,450. Known as a “white glove sale,” rare in the auction world, every lot sold. On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, Toomey ...
Vast Trove of Andrew Wyeth Artworks—Many Unseen by the Public—Enter Into New Collections Sharing Agreement
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2022
Some 7,000 works by Andrew Wyeth, only 15 percent of which have been previously exhibited, will be made accessible for exhibition, scholarship and loans through a new partnership, notes the New York Times. The Wyeth Foundation for American Art has established a collection-sharing arrangement ...
Bruce Museum to Receive Promised Gift of a Major Collection of European and American Art
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
The identities of the collectors of this transformative gift of 70 artworks—which includes Edward Hopper’s seminal final painting Two Comedians (1966)—have been guessed at, but not revealed, according to ARTnews. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., announced the promised gift of a major ...
First Retrospective of Photographer and Conceptual Artist Rosamond Purcell to Open at Addison Gallery of American Art
ArtfixDaily / April 4th, 2022
“What kind of genius is Rosamond Purcell? Is she an artist? A scholar? A documentarian? A living cabinet of wonders? Her originality defies category…” — Jonathan Safran Foer Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside, the first retrospective of the artist’s work, which transcends the ...
Sweeping Survey 'Diego Rivera's America' Debuts at SFMOMA This Summer
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Diego Rivera’s America, the most in-depth examination of the artist’s work in over two decades. Diego Rivera’s America brings together more than 150 of Rivera’s paintings, frescos and drawings—as well as three ...
Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism Opens at The Westmoreland in May
ArtfixDaily / April 5th, 2022
Opening Sunday, May 29 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in Greensburg, Penn., the exhibition Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism brings together works of art separated by almost a century to consider how they are bound together by the shared experience of living and working ...
Christie’s Will Auction The Famed Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann heads to Christie's this May in New York City. Works from the collection will be sold across two live sales at Rockefeller Plaza during the Spring Marquee Week, beginning with a single-owner evening sale on Monday, May 9, 2022. While a total presale ...
'Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the Divine' Exhibition Shown Alongside Georgia O'Keeffe Photographs
ArtfixDaily / April 4th, 2022
Art is the most valued thing in the world…it is the expression of the highest form of human energy, the creative power nearest to the divine. The power is within - the question is how to reach it. – Arthur Wesley Dow To accompany Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, the Addison Gallery of ...
'Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings' Exhibition Expanded at Oberlin College
ArtfixDaily / April 3rd, 2022
German-born American artist Eva Hesse (1936–1970) produced a prodigious body of work that collapsed disciplinary boundaries and forged innovative approaches to materials, forms, and processes. A traveling exhibition illustrates the important role that drawing played throughout Hesse’s career, ...
Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney
ArtfixDaily / March 31st, 2022
“[Beauford] Delaney repeatedly turned to art to annihilate the boundaries of fixed identity in ways that were not simply aesthetic…but also spiritual. Such ecstatic annihilations ran between his purely abstract paintings and his portraits, animating his figurative and non-figurative work ...
Exhibition Guest Curated by Security Guards Opens at Baltimore Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2022
For the first time in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) history, the people who protect the art have selected the art. Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 current and former members of the museum’s security team, opens on Sunday, March 27, with approximately 25 ...
MGM Resort's New Acquisitions Reshape Its Public Fine Art Collection
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2022
In October, MGM Resorts sold 11 works by Pablo Picasso, some decades-long fixtures in the casino restaurant, for a total of $108 million. Sotheby's conducted the sale on-site at the MGM Bellagio in Las Vegas, and while several works by Picasso remain in the collection, the resort entity now aims ...
Supreme Court to Hear Copyright Dispute Over Andy Warhol Use of Prince Image
NBC / March 28th, 2022
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would hear a dispute over Andy Warhol prints based on an image by a rock photographer. The alleged copyright infringement case involves a photograph taken in 1981 of Prince, in his early career, by photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The photograph, made for ...
Major Exhibition at The Met of Winslow Homer’s Watercolors and Oil Paintings to Examine Themes of Conflict and Struggle in His Art
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2022
Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 11, 2022, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents will reconsider the artist's work ...
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers to hold Interiors and Prints & Multiples on April 6-7
ArtfixDaily / March 25th, 2022
Oak Park, IL — Starting a busy spring schedule, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct sales on consecutive days: Interiors on Wednesday, April 6 and Prints & Multiples on Thursday, April 7. Each auction consists of well over 300 lots. Interiors features a ...