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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, August 26, 2011

HARLEQUIN MEDALLION QUILT, Artist unidentified, New England, 1800-1820. Glazed wool 87 x 96". American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Cyril Irwin Nelson in loving memory of his grandparents John Williams and Sophie Anna Macy, 1984.33.1.

An uncertain future for American Folk Art Museum
New York Times - August 25th, 2011 23:14

When the American Folk Art Museum sold its flagship building in Midtown Manhattan to the Museum of Modern Art in May that move did not save the cash-strapped institution from its woes. Now there is talk of dissolving...

Sotheby's art handler lockout extends into fall season
artinfo - August 25th, 2011 23:00

With the autumn auction schedule in full swing starting Sept. 13, Sotheby's has agreed to meet with its protesting unionized art handlers just one day before. The teamsters say they will organize a major protest outside Sotheby's on Friday.

Rigaud Benoit, Les Sirenes, 1956, oil on masonite, Winslow Anderson Collection of Hatian Art, Huntington Museum of Art

Haitian Art Arrives in Auburn, Alabama
Release Date: 23 August 2011
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art's newest exhibition, Lespri Endonptabl : Selected Works from the Winslow Anderson Collection of Haitian Art at the Huntington Museum of Art, will be on view from Aug. 27-Oct. 29 in the Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Gallery and the ...

MATTHEW BRANDT: TWO SHIPS PASSING, September 16 – October 29, 2011, Artist’s Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 2011 from 6 to 8 pm, at M + B, Los Angeles.

Matthew Brandt: Two Ships Passing opens at M + B
Release Date: 24 August 2011
M+B is pleased to announce Two Ships Passing an exhibition of new work by Matthew Brandt. “Two ships passing” is a common saying describing the possibilities and often unresolved nature of love and connection. The show’s title borrows from this multi-layered expression—its ambiguity as ...

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