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Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's Vanity Fair Covers Suggest A Surreal Escape for 2022
ArtfixDaily / February 23rd, 2022
Conceptual artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, along with stylist and editor Katie Grand, are behind a new set of otherwordly (but very L.A.) Vanity Fair covers. A showcase for fashion and entertainment, Vanity Fair's 28th annual Hollywood Issue comes with eight different ...
'Shifting the Silence' Exhibition at SFMOMA Amplifies Women Artists This Spring
ArtfixDaily / February 22nd, 2022
A thought-provoking range of exhibitions will debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) this spring, inspiring new ways to see and engage with the world. The role of an architect in the age of climate change is examined in the exclusive exhibition Nature × Humanity: Oxman ...
'Fault Lines' Exhibition to Explore Themes of Art and the Environment
ArtfixDaily / February 22nd, 2022
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will lead its spring schedule with the blockbuster exhibition Fault Lines: Art and the Environment, on view April 2 to July 17, 2022, highlighting contemporary artists’ responses to current environmental concerns through an immersive multimedia exhibition ...
The Winter Show Is Rescheduled to Open April 1 at the Former Barneys Flagship Store
ArtfixDaily / February 20th, 2022
The Winter Show has announced that the 68th edition of the fair will take place April 1–10, 2022 at 660 Madison Avenue, the former flagship location of Barneys New York, following the postponement of its previously scheduled January dates due to surges in COVID-19 cases. The 2022 edition will ...
5 Swoon-Worthy Museum Shows for Valentine's Weekend Strolling
ArtfixDaily / February 10th, 2022
This weekend ahead of Valentine's Day, visitors can catch five exhibitions packing some emotional punch—from sensuality to sadness, light-heartedness to power—at museums across the U.S. Radiating energy and magnificence in grand artworks, The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg's (MFA) Bernini ...
Santa Barbara Transforms Into a Van Gogh Destination With City-Wide Events During Landmark Exhibition This Spring
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2022
Santa Barbara, a seaside city known for its café culture, sweeping views and vibrant arts scene, is set to draw visitors this spring for a full van Gogh experience. Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) and in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art, Through Vincent’s Eyes: ...
Modern Native American Art Explored in New Traveling Exhibition 'Action/Abstraction Redefined'
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2022
Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art (Mass.) debuts Action/Abstraction Redefined, the first major traveling exhibition analyzing modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting and created by leading ...
Peabody Essex Museum Combines Its Renowned Native American and American Art Collections In a Refreshed Gallery Installation
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2022
This winter, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., opens a new gallery that, for the first time, combines its Native American and American collections. On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America brings together more than 250 historical and contemporary works from its ...
The Getty's 'Poussin and the Dance' to Combine 17th-Century Paintings, Antiquities and Contemporary Dance
ArtfixDaily / February 3rd, 2022
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) was the most influential French painter of the 17th century, and an artist fascinated by movement. Living and working in Rome, he painted scenes of wild revelry—dancing nymphs and satyrs—that drew inspiration from classical antiquity and helped make ...
First-Ever Museum Show Featuring Matthew Wong Brings Together His Poignant 'Blue' Series
ArtfixDaily / January 31st, 2022
Heralded by the New York Times as “one of the most talented painters of his generation,” Toronto-born Chinese Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984–2019) lit up the art world during the final two years of his brilliant but short-lived career. In his extraordinarily expressive style, Wong ...
Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
ArtfixDaily / January 31st, 2022
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is now presenting Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life, the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice, bringing together over 100 works from all facets of Bertoia’s ...
Art Basel to Launch New Art Fair in the Grand Palais of Paris During FIAC's Dates
ArtfixDaily / January 26th, 2022
The October dates at the Grand Palais held by FIAC, Paris's top fair, will now be occupied by Art Basel, in a new decision that is a "major shake-up," according to ARTnews. Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a seven-year ...
San Francisco's FOG Design+Art Closes with Robust Sales and Strong Attendance
ArtfixDaily / January 25th, 2022
The eighth edition of FOG Design+Art closed on Sunday, January 23, 2022, following a pause in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Exhibitors, curators, collectors and attendees reported a strong return to the fair, noting great sales, well-curated presentations and excellent attendance throughout ...
63 Artists Named for Whitney's 80th Biennial Titled 'Quiet as It's Kept'
ArtfixDaily / January 25th, 2022
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that sixty-three artists and collectives will be participating in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, co-organized by two Whitney curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards. This will be the eightieth iteration in the long-running series ...
Intersect Palm Springs to Feature 50 Exhibitors, Curated Spaces and Sculpture Garden
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
Intersect Palm Springs, a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of more than 50 emerging and established contemporary and modern art and design galleries, released its exhibitor list and special exhibitions for the 2022 edition. An Opening Night Preview on Thursday, February 10 will be ...
'A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence' Opens at The Block Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
“How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence?” asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting later this month at The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long ...
Major Survey of Sean Scully Is Expanded for Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition This Spring
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2022
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major survey of Irish-born American artist Sean Scully, featuring paintings and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas will chart the artist’s significant contributions to the American and ...
New Museum to Show the First Full Retrospective in New York of Faith Ringgold This February
ArtfixDaily / January 6th, 2022
From February 17 to June 5, 2022, the New Museum will present the first full retrospective in New York of the art of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY). Bringing together over sixty years of work, “Faith Ringgold: American People” provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of ...
Kehinde Wiley Brings a 'New Kind of Sublime' to the National Gallery London
ArtfixDaily / December 30th, 2021
This winter, in his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, American artist Kehinde Wiley explores the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition – mountainous, coastal, sublime, Romantic and transcendental – through the mediums of film and ...
'Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects' at SFMOMA Examines a Former MIT Professor's Pioneering Art and Sustainable Designs
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
What does it mean to build, house, inform and inspire sustainable ways of living in the 21st century? American Israeli architect and founder of the New York-based practice, OXMAN, Neri Oxman questions the materials, tools and methods of architecture as we know it today. In the exclusive ...