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'Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America' Joins Mayflower 400 Exhibition This Summer at The Box In Plymouth, UK
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2021
Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America will be displayed next to The Box’s major Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy exhibition in England, which tells a shared transatlantic history. Concurrent celebrations which began in 2020 at Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum Plans To Reopen May 14 With New Installations and Extended Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / April 23rd, 2021
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, reopen to the public Friday, May 14. This is the second reopening of the museum following closures on March 14, 2020 and on Nov. 23, 2020 as a public health precaution due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The museum ...
Olafur Eliasson Floods Museum With Site-Specific Installation Open to 'Human and Non-Human Alike'
ArtfixDaily / April 21st, 2021
A new site-specific installation entitled Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has brought a literal flood inside the Fondation Beyeler, in the Swiss city of Basel. For this solo show (now through July 11, 2021), the artist immerses the museum in a border-crossing investigation ...
An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Florida Outsider Art
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2021
The passion for Outsider Art runs deep in Florida, where self-taught artists have forged an indelible mark of special attention on the creative landscape of the state. An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Florida Outsider Art is the most comprehensive exhibition ...
Modern Art Museum Shanghai 2021 Program Spotlights Zaha Hadid Architects, Premieres Immersive Alice in Warholand Experience, and Launches a Night Museum and Sculpture Garden
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2021
The Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai has announced its 2021 exhibition program, including the first large-scale exhibition of Zaha Hadid Architects in China, ZHA Close Up – Work & Research from 19 June - 15 September, and the first fully curated narrative museum featuring Andy Warhol in ...
Underexamined, Women-Led Pattern and Decoration Movement Explored In Expansive Exhibition at Hessel Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2021
This June, the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, will present With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement, originally on view at The ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed Week of April 12, Returning Next Week With A Virtual Look at The Philadelphia Show
ArtfixDaily / April 11th, 2021
ARTFIXdaily will be closed for the week of April 12 and subscriber e-newsletter service will resume on April 19. Coming up, look for our coverage of The Philadelphia Show (April 23-30) as the 59th edition showcases stellar American fine and decorative arts along with European and Asian works. ...
MASS MoCA Expands Annual Benefit Auction With Works Donated By 24 Artists
ArtfixDaily / April 8th, 2021
24 Artists Have Donated Works to the Museum to Support the Creation of New Art The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Mass., has announced that it will be greatly expanding its annual benefit auction, offering 19 works and 5 limited edition multiples by 24 ...
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Reveals Plans for Major Expansion Designed by Safdie Architects
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has revealed plans for an expansion that will increase the size of the current facilities by 50 percent. Adding nearly 100,000 square feet to the 200,000-square-foot facility, the expansion will allow the museum to showcase its growing collection and welcome ...
Largest Ever Survey of Moroccan Art Opens at Reina Sofia
ArtfixDaily / March 31st, 2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid presents Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020, a sweeping survey of the culture of Morocco from the 1950s to the present day, running from 31 March - 27 September 2021, in a unique collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art – Qatar Museums and ...
Cleveland Museum of Art's Diverse New Acquisitions Range From A 16th-Century Marble 'Dido' to Amy Sherald's 'Handsome' Portrait
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2021
Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include Aurelio Lombardo’s Dido, an exquisitely carved early 16th-century marble relief sculpture; a drawing by Giulio Romano directly related to one of the artist’s most important frescoed ceilings in Italy; Gustave Caillebotte’s Study of a ...
Here's a Glimpse of 'Making Paradise,' a Major New Exhibition that Explores the Concept of Eden Through Islamic Garden Design
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2021
The Aga Khan Centre Gallery in London this spring presents Making Paradise, a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design. Realized in collaboration with all three institutions at the Aga Khan Centre, the show (from April 29 to Sept. 30, 2021) brings ...
Bansky Painting Brings A World Record in Christie's $275 Million Sale Series
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2021
After a 14-minute bidding battle, a painting that the street artist Bansky created in homage to health workers in the COVID-19 pandemic brought a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million) at Christie’s on Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities ...
Ed Sheeran 'Jackson Pollocky' Painting Raises $70k For Charity
BBC / March 16th, 2021
A Vermont woman won an Ed Sheeran painting in a raffle that raised more than £51,000 ($70,000) for a cancer charity. The pop singer's abstract artwork, titled Splash Planet, went to Claire Faynor, who paid £20 for a raffle ticket. The Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCiS) ...
Spring Forward With Timely Books on Influential Artists Alice Neel, Yayoi Kusama
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2021
For your book wish list this Women's History Month, these two publications share the stories of important women artists — Alice Neel and Yayoi Kusama — as major exhibitions feature their work in 2021. Opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 22nd, Alice Neel: People ...
Collection of Ted and Maryanne Simmons Strengthens the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Postwar Holdings With 833 Works
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2021
The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired a collection of 833 works of contemporary art assembled by Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The collection represents a transformative addition to the museum’s collection, particularly in the area of postwar works on paper. Comprised predominately of ...
Huffman Gifts of Contemporary Southern Folk Art To Go On View At Asheville Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2021
Huffman Gifts of Contemporary Southern Folk Art features gifts of contemporary southern folk art including paintings, ceramics, and more from the collection of Allen and Barry Huffman. The exhibition will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s Judith S. Moore Gallery from April 7 through ...
Gropius Bau's Postponed Yayoi Kusama Retrospective To Open in April Featuring Her Groundbreaking Work Spanning 80 Years
ArtfixDaily / March 11th, 2021
"Yayoi Kusama’s work is characterized by revolutionary interventions driven by the desire for an immersive union of body and artwork, and an urge to redefine the role of women in art," says Stephanie Rosenthal, Director of Gropius Bau in Berlin. Postponed last fall due to the pandemic, the ...
(Updated) Picasso, Rembrandt, Rothko...Beeple? Christie's Market Test For Digital NFT Artwork Brings In Record-Smashing $69.3 Million
Forbes / March 10th, 2021
Picasso and other masters regularly fetch tens of millions at auction. A purely digital NFT artwork by Beeple just headed into that price stratosphere. The final bid of $69.3 million is the third highest price for a living artist at auction, a new world record for any work of digital art, the ...
'Cross Pollination' Traveling Exhibition and VR Experience Mixes Contemporary Art, 19th-Century Paintings and Ecology
ArtfixDaily / March 8th, 2021
The exhibition travels in 2021 (see full schedule below); a VR experience is available from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The Olana Partnership, Olana State Historic Site, and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site have announced that “Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our ...