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Dalí / El Greco Side-by-Side Exhibit Prompts: 'Are They Really Paintings of the Same Thing?'
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2022
From July 9 to December 4, 2022, The Auckland Project in the U.K. will unite two Spanish masterpieces from British collections at the Spanish Gallery. Acquired by Glasgow city in 1952 directly from the artist, Salvador Dalí’s Christ of St John of the Cross is one of the most celebrated and ...
Demonstrators Glue Themselves to Iconic 'The Hay Wain' Painting, 'The Last Supper' Copy in Latest Oil Protests
CNN / July 5th, 2022
One of Britain's best-known masterpieces became the backdrop for a demonstration at London's National Gallery on Monday, one in a series of protests at cultural sites by British environmentalist group Just Stop Oil. On July 4, two people covered John Constable's peaceful pastoral painting "The ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed to July 4
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2022
ARTFIXdaily is closed for website maintenance and updates. E-newsletter service will resume from July 4. Looking ahead, the exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern opens June 18 at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. One of the largest Rodin exhibitions in the ...
100 Great British Drawings Spotlighted at The Huntington
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2022
“100 Great British Drawings,” a major exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, will trace the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, spotlighting The Huntington’s important collection of more than 12,000 works that represent the ...
Designer Duro Olowu Selects Objects That Amplify Pattern for Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2022
Nigerian British designer Duro Olowu has guest curated the 20th installment in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s “Selects” exhibition series, which invites designers, writers and cultural figures to explore and interpret objects in the museum’s permanent collection. On view in New York ...
London's Regency-Era Soane Museum to Offer Portals into Other Realms With Summer Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2022
Space Popular: The Portal Galleries will present new work and research by the multidisciplinary design practice Space Popular, led by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, at Sir John Soane’s house museum in London this summer. Designed by renowned architect Sir John Soane and filled with his ...
View Highlights of Norway's Massive, New National Museum Debuting June 11
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2022
Norway's long-awaited National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design opens in Oslo on June 11. Designed by Klaus Schuwerk, who partnered with Kleihues + Kleihues of Germany and Dyrvik Arkitekter of Norway, the new 587,000-square-foot building merges the collections of four institutions with some ...
A Museum Dedicated to a Poet Among Cultural Sites Attacked in Ukraine
NBC News / May 30th, 2022
A missile strike targeted the Hryhorii Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum in Skovorodynivka, Ukraine, on May 6. The Russian attack damaged paintings, sculptures and books housed in the historic house museum dedicated to one of Ukraine’s most influential poets and philosophers. The museum burned, ...
'Archive of the World' Explores the Complex Dynamics of Spanish America at LACMA
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2022
From June 12 to October 30, 2022, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. Grounded in LACMA’s collection of Spanish American art formed largely in the last 15 years, the exhibition features over 90 works ...
Following the Morozov Collection Blockbuster, Fondation Louis Vuitton Debuts 2 New Major Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2022
Following the resounding success of the Morozov Collection exhibition (recently returned to Russia after 1.25 million visitors saw the show in Paris), the Fondation Louis Vuitton inaugurates two new exhibitions, “Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) – the Centenary Exhibition,” and “Fugues In Color”, on view ...
Schwenke Thirteenth Anniversary Auction Features Multiple Estates, Over 700 Unreserved Lots Selling Sunday, May 22nd
ArtfixDaily / May 18th, 2022
On Sunday, May 22nd Schwenke Auctioneers will auction a diverse group of over 700 lots consigned from 49 separate estates and consignors from Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. The auction includes over 100 lots of Asian decorative ...
Art Collector Steve Wynn Sued by US to Register as Foreign Agent
Bloomberg / May 18th, 2022
Former casino CEO Steve Wynn, who is well-known for his blue-chip art purchases, has been sued by the Department of Justice. Wynn is accused of lobbying Donald Trump in 2017 on behalf of the Chinese government in an effort to extradite a dissident residing in the U.S., according to a lawsuit in ...
The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction After 1945
ArtfixDaily / May 17th, 2022
The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images. ... To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time. - Adolph Gottlieb, 1947 The Shape of Freedom: International ...
$15.2 Million Ernie Barnes Painting Among Record-Setters in Christie's Over Billion-Dollar Auction Week
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2022
Christie’s Spring 2022 Marquee Week held its final evening sales on Thursday, May 12 with three blockbuster auctions: The Collection of Anne H. Bass achieved $363.1 Million, The 20th Century Evening Sale achieved $468.2 Million, and The Raptor sold for $12.4 Million. The night achieved $843.7 ...
Coral Gables Museum Presents Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to Kyiv’s Art Revival
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2022
The Coral Gables Museum will be the first stop of a traveling exhibition titled Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985 - 1993, a series of Ukrainian avant-garde works revealing freedom during the transitional time when Ukraine came out from under the rule of the former Soviet ...
This Artist's House For Sale in the Hills of Tuscany Is a Draw
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
The sea is black, you are transparent, the sky is black you are deep, ciao - excerpt of a note from Lucio Fontana to Diana Baylon In the hills above Florence, a house-museum in which Abstract Expressionist artist Diana Baylon (1920-2013) lived and worked is for sale. Baylon set up her Tuscan ...
Bruce Museum to Receive Promised Gift of a Major Collection of European and American Art
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
The identities of the collectors of this transformative gift of 70 artworks—which includes Edward Hopper’s seminal final painting Two Comedians (1966)—have been guessed at, but not revealed, according to ARTnews. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., announced the promised gift of a major ...
Ohio Museum Deaccessions Artworks That Could Raise Over $60 Million at Auction
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
In an effort to bolster its acquisition fund to diversify collections, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Toledo, Ohio, will offer up for sale three major Impressionist paintings expected to fetch up to $64 million in Sotheby's Modern Evening sale on May 17. The deaccessions include Nu ...
Three Major Institutions Collaborate on First Major Exhibition Devoted to Matisse in the 1930s
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2022
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, will present the first exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), one of the giants of twentieth-century art. Opening ...
Finland Seizes $46 Million in Art Returning to Russia; Paris Mayor Calls for 'Freezing' Morozov Collection
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
Finland seized artwork en route to Russia in accordance with sanctions imposed by the European Union over Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine. The haul of paintings and sculptures is valued at around 42 million euros ($46 million), the agency said. The artwork was on loan from Russia to ...