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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, September 08, 2009
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 | Forgeries or Finds? Art world is fighting over Frida Kahlo
LA Times Arts - September 6th, 2009 07:00
The emergence of previously unknown artwork said to be made by the popular Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54) has led to a very public debate about its authenticity. In Mexico, Kahlo is officially ranked an artist of the national patrimony, a formal endorsement foreign to American culture. Without official backing, an archive of previously unknown material faces high hurdles for acceptance. Aggressive bullying over the discovery by Kahlo-establishment figures is so strange that it suggests ...Read more | |
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 | The Go-to List: NYT's museum and gallery exhibition guide
NY Times - September 8th, 2009 05:11
The New York Times' listing of New York gallery and museum exhibitons includes the jewel-toned paintings of Paul Jenkins, on view at D. Wigmore Fine Art, and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's group show of artwork by friends such as Wayne Thiebaud (shown here) at Julie Saul Gallery. Check out the entire list...Read more | |
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 | Bonds that Bind: Long Beach museum and city could break ties
LA Times Arts - September 5th, 2009 07:00
Long Beach, Calif. - The Long Beach Museum of Art's future could be at stake, with a dispute intensifying over whether the 59-year-old museum must pay back $3.06 million the city government grudgingly anted up this week to satisfy bond holders. The museum's discovery that it doesn't have to pay the millions back to Long Beach has lead to threats of discontinued city support.
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 | Harvard is #1: Boston Globe ranks top college museums
Boston Globe 1 - September 4th, 2009 03:11
New England - and Massachusetts in particular - is richly endowed with great college art collections. As teaching collections, almost all of them span continents and epochs. And they’re all easily accessible to the public. Among the ten best, the greatest, without question, is Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge - a university collection that is richer and deeper than all but three or four of the country’s great public museums Read more | |
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 | Pastoral Pre-War Watercolors: Adolf Hitler's artwork auctioned in Nuremberg
NY Daily News / Reuters - September 7th, 2009 23:27
Three watercolors supposedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler were auctioned off for a total of $60,000 in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg Saturday. German auctioneer Herbert Weidler said the paintings were sold to three different phone bidders. Although the exact number of Hitler artworks is unknown, experts believe there are about 720, including sketches, in existence.Read more | |
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 | Eco-friendly Art: Giant bird sculpture arrives in Hyde Park
London Times - September 8th, 2009 00:00
An enormous Ibis is the first new public sculpture in Hyde Park, Central London, for nearly 50 years. The three-metre tall bronze artwork, named Isis after the goddess of nature, was created by Simon Gudgeon. It is spearheading a drive to raise £1.8 million to build an ecofriendly wildlife education centre in the park. Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, have already contributed to the scheme and been given a plaque...Read more | |
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 | Benevolent Titan: Australian art dealer Joseph Brown dies
The Age - September 7th, 2009 23:12
Joseph Brown (b. 1918), Australia's most prominent and respected art dealer, who was renowned for his extraordinary civic generosity, has died at age 91. Between 1966 and 1999, Brown donated 460 works of art to public collections. In addition, in 2004, he made what was described by then premier Steve Bracks as the ''largest and most generous gift of 19th and 20th century Australian art to any Australian gallery'' - 154 works worth $30 million to the National Gallery of ...Read more | |
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