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Hackers Pose as Prominent Art Dealer in Museum Deal Costing Millions
Bloomberg / January 30th, 2020
Hackers worked their way into email conversations between a Dutch museum and a London art dealer to have millions erroneously paid to an account in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reports. Representatives of Rijksmuseum Twenthe were negotiating a deal for a painting by English master John Constable from ...
Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 37 Artists for 2020 Residency Program
ArtfixDaily / January 30th, 2020
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced the 37 artists who will participate in its Artist-in-Residence program at its Center in New Orleans in 2020. All of the artists are selected through a multi-tiered process that includes a review by a five-person panel of established artists, curators, ...
The National Trust For Historic Preservation Wants to Know Where Women Made History, So Bring on the Artist Places
ArtfixDaily / January 28th, 2020
For the art world, a new opportunity to put American women artists on the map has come as the U.S. celebrates the centennial of womens' voting rights. This year, with the 100th anniversary of U.S. women earning the right to vote, a new campaign of The National Trust For Historic ...
25th Annual LA Art Show Celebrates the Meteoric Rise of the Los Angeles Art Scene
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2020
The LA Art Show, the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, will officially kick-off the city’s 2020 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center from February 5-9, 2020, with a full lineup of international galleries, museum exhibitions, panel discussions, film ...
5 Things to To Do During NYC's Americana Week
ArtfixDaily / January 21st, 2020
New York's signature Americana Week continues through February 2, with a number of fairs, auctions, gallery and museum exhibitions and events centered on American art and antiques, and other categories, offering a mix of historic period objects deftly combined with contemporary works to reflect ...
From the Colonial to the Contemporary: The Philadelphia Show Expands and Rebrands
ArtfixDaily / January 20th, 2020
Celebrating its 58th edition showcasing America’s preeminent antiques and fine art dealers, The Philadelphia Show has a new look and a new approach. Nearly 60 dealers, featuring works from the 17th to the 21st centuries, will gather from Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26 at ...
Six Artists to See in State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary
ArtfixDaily / January 16th, 2020
State of the Art 2020 debuts next month as part of opening the new contemporary art space, the Momentary. The exhibition will be on view at the Momentary and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from February 22 through May 24, 2020, free for all visitors. Lauren Haynes, ...
Groundbreaking Exhibition Shows What A Major Influencer Millet Was On Modern Art's Trajectory
ArtfixDaily / January 16th, 2020
{{image}} {{image}} ‘Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí’ creates an alternative narrative for the history of modern art. {{image}} The Saint Louis Art Museum next month will open “Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí,” an exhibition that examines, for the first ...
What to Hear and See Inside San Francisco's FOG Design+Art 2020 This Weekend
ArtfixDaily / January 14th, 2020
FOG Design+Art opens on January 16 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, with a Preview Gala benefitting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on January 15. This year’s fair features a series of thought-provoking conversations and panel discussions in the FOG ...
'Edvard Munch and the Cycle of Life' Includes His Powerfully Emotional Alpha and Omega Series
ArtfixDaily / January 14th, 2020
The Chrysler Museum of Art will present its first-ever exhibition of Edvard Munch’s iconic works in Edvard Munch and the Cycle of Life: Prints from the National Gallery of Art. On view February 28–May 17, 2020, the show will consist of 50 prints, including The Scream and Madonna. It will include ...
'Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945' Debuts at The Whitney This Winter
ArtfixDaily / January 13th, 2020
The cultural renaissance that emerged in Mexico in 1920 at the end of that country's revolution dramatically changed art not just in Mexico but also in the United States. Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 will explore the profound influence Mexican artists had on ...
France Blocks Export of $26M Cimabue Painting Discovered in Kitchen
People / January 1st, 2019
A 13th-century masterpiece by Italian painter Cimabue that was found hanging above of a hotplate in an eldery woman's kitchen sold at auction for $26.8 million in October. But will the buyer be allowed to export the piece from France? France seeks to block the export of “Christ Mocked,” ...
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A Missing Klimt Painting Possibly Found by Gardener in Italian Gallery Wall
Guardian / December 12th, 2019
Italian police are investigating the possible discovery of a long-missing Gustav Klimt painting that was found inside a wall of the gallery where it disappeared from 23 years ago. The missing Klimt is valued at €60 million ($66 million). Klimt's Portrait of a Lady, reportedly stolen in 1997, ...
Collection Gift Expands Saint Louis Art Museum’s Holdings of American Modernism
ArtfixDaily / December 10th, 2019
John and Susan Horseman have given the Saint Louis Art Museum a major gift of 20th-century American art. The gift includes excellent examples of American surrealism, American Scene, and modernist painting—all areas with significant gaps in the Museum’s collection. “I am deeply grateful to John ...
Harvard Students' Installation in the Sackler Museum Names Opioid Victims
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2019
A new art installation at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum names local victims and survivors of opioid abuse, taking aim at the family legacy of the benefactor whose name the museum bears and the addictive drug that ballooned the Sackler multibillion dollar fortune while ...
Google Doodle Honors Innovative French Sculptor Camille Claudel
heavy / December 8th, 2019
On her 155th birthday, French artist Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was given major recognition this Sunday (Dec. 8) with a Google Doodle celebrating her pioneering sculptural work. After studying at Académie Colarossi, Claudel began training under Rodin in 1884, learning about his method of ...
Why the Four Turner Prize Finalists Got a Collective Win
NPR / December 8th, 2019
All four finalists — Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani and Oscar Murillo — for the U.K.'s prestigious Turner Prize have won in an unprecedented twist of events last week. The four artists lodged a request with judges that was accepted. After three and half decades of handing ...
Top Execs to Exit Sotheby's in Latest Shake-Up
Page Six / December 4th, 2019
Several top executives at Sotheby's will be leaving, some voluntarily and some not, according to party buzz at the Art Basel circuit in Miami, reported Page Six. August Uribe (former Vice Chairman, Americas) is among up to a dozen staffers reported to be out of the auction house, many from ...
Pantone Color of the Year 2020 Is a Classic Blue Familiar in Art and Antiques
ArtfixDaily / December 4th, 2019
For 20 years, PANTONE has chosen a color that the company anticipates will be on trend for the year ahead. For 2020, Classic Blue is the look, an ever-popular shade that has popped up in decorative arts and painting palettes across cultures and millenia. "A timeless and enduring blue hue, ...