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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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
The Art Show Concludes Successful Edition With New Fall Dates; ADAA Appoints New President and Board Members
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Inaugurating a new moment on the art fair calendar, The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2021 edition yesterday with an enthusiastic response from ADAA members, collectors, museum leaders, and visitors, who ...
At The Huntington, 2021 Served as a Banner Year for American Art Acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2021
In 2021, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens acquired more than 50 important works of art by a wide range of artists from North America. The acquisitions contribute to a more expansive story of American art, adding hemispheric and global perspectives and diversity to the ...
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Innovates Museum Model in World First; Displays Entire Collection by Size and Climatic Requirements
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2021
With Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a new all-access art museum and system of collection management debuts. The King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, will open the Depot this week, with all 151,000 collection items—from Vincent van Gogh paintings to a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room—on ...
'Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky' Celebrates Nature and Community
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion will present an exhibition focusing on a community of artists surrounding New Jersey native and revered American landscape painter Lois Dodd. “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky,” opening Friday, November 19, and ...
Family of Jean-Michel Basquiat Tap Sir David Adjaye to Design New York Exhibition of 200 Never-Before and Rarely-Seen Artworks
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
The family of Jean-Michel Basquiat has announced that renowned architect Sir David Adjaye OBE will serve as the Exhibition Designer for Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©. The exhibition opens on April 9, 2022 at NYC landmark, the Starrett-Lehigh Building and will feature over 200 never before ...
Survey of Graphic Design Pioneer E. McKnight Kauffer Charts the Legacy of an 'Underground Modernist'
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York is showing the largest-ever exhibition of works by E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954), a pioneer of commercial art—the profession known today as graphic design. On view now through April 10, 2022, “Underground Modernist: E. McKnight ...
Bob Thompson Exhibition Explores His Brilliant Artworks From a Career Cut Short
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2021
"All this was totally my imagination of a faraway place." - Bob Thompson An important traveling exhibition offers a rich reconsideration of a visionary African American painter. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Bob Thompson (1937–1966) earned critical acclaim in the late 1950s for his paintings of ...
Spooky Images Abound in the Traveling Exhibition 'Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art'
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Kentucky's Speed Art Museum welcomes Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), this major exhibition debuted at Toledo Museum of Art and travels to the Speed (on now until January 2, 2022) before ...
New York's ADAA Art Show Opens Next Week at Park Avenue Armory and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Members of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation’s foremost nonprofit organization of leading art dealers, return together this fall for The Art Show to showcase their dynamic programs—featuring more than 40 solo presentations, as well as an array of ...
Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Makes 'Extremely Unusual' Admissions In Alleged Fraud Case, Court Reports
The Age / October 25th, 2021
Melbourne-born art dealer Andrew (Andy) Valmorbida, scion of an Italian-imports family dynasty in Australia, reportedly admitted to fraud involving multimillion dollars in artwork last May. A judgment was recently published following the civil case in the offshore tax haven of Jersey, part of the ...
The Whitney Publishes Second Volume of Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Transfers Archive to MoMA
ArtfixDaily / October 25th, 2021
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the publication of the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of the films of Andy Warhol. Illuminating the true significance of Warhol’s radical experiments in film and his mastery of the medium, The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, ...
Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey
ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2021
Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington, now presents the first solo exhibition of the work of Kenjiro Nomura (1896-1956) in over sixty years along with an accompanying publication. Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey features the Japanese American artist’s work ...
Exhibitions on Mid-Century Abstraction and Modernist Design at Black Mountain College to Open at Asheville Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021
The Asheville Art Museum is planning two new companion exhibitions highlighting artworks from its collection. Gestures: Mid-Century Abstraction from the Collection explores works in a variety of media that speak to the vibrant abstract experiments in American art making during the middle of ...
'Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies' Exhibition Travels to Massachusetts
ArtfixDaily / October 19th, 2021
The growth of two of New England’s oldest and most revered summer art colonies will be the subject of a special exhibition, Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies, opening Oct. 30, 2021 at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Mass. The show features works by ...
The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership; Thomas Cole Masterwork Is First Purchase
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2021
In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation, based in Los Angeles County, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California, have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The ...