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'Dakota Modern' Retrospective of Oscar Howe Reexamines His Role in 20th Century American Art
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2022
One of the 20th Century’s Most Innovative Native American Painters, Howe Challenged Stereotypes and Created Pathways for Native Painters The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York debuted “Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe” in March. This major traveling ...
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 ...
Collection of Art Dealer Forrest Fenn, Known for His Treasure Hunt, Heads to Auction
ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2022
Santa Fe art dealer and collector Forrest Fenn famously hid a treasure chest -- supposedly worth over one-million dollars -- in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. Based on a riddle-laden poem in Fenn's memoir, hundreds of thousands are said to have pursued the elusive treasure for a decade, and ...
'At First Light' Exhibition Surveys Maine as an Essential Site of Inspiration for Artists Across Two Centuries
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2022
This summer, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) in Brunswick, Maine, will present At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, an expansive exploration of how artists have shaped our understanding—and often, quite literally how we see—Maine’s landscapes, communities, and people. At ...
'Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water' Exhibition Opens at Seattle Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2022
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water (March 18–May 30, 2022), exploring the many ways artists around the world have engaged with the theme of water. The exhibition features works from SAM’s collection and three local lenders, with over 80 works of art ...
Barnes Foundation Unveils Its First-Ever Native American Art Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / February 21st, 2022
This spring, the Barnes Foundation presents Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community, a major exhibition of historic and contemporary Southwest Native art, including Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. Exploring living artistic traditions that promote individual ...
Peabody Essex Museum Combines Its Renowned Native American and American Art Collections In a Refreshed Gallery Installation
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2022
This winter, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., opens a new gallery that, for the first time, combines its Native American and American collections. On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America brings together more than 250 historical and contemporary works from its ...
Modern Native American Art Explored in New Traveling Exhibition 'Action/Abstraction Redefined'
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2022
Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art (Mass.) debuts Action/Abstraction Redefined, the first major traveling exhibition analyzing modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting and created by leading ...
2022 USPS Stamps Honor Black Sculptor Edmonia Lewis and Ojibwe Modernist Painter George Morrison
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2021
The United States Postal Service (USPS) will release new FOREVER stamps in 2022 featuring two noteworthy American artists of color. USPS noted in a statement, "One of the nation’s greatest modernist artists and a founding figure of Native American modernism, George Morrison (1919-2000) ...
Major Survey of Contemporary Indigenous Photography to Open at Amon Carter in October 2022
ArtfixDaily / November 7th, 2021
Marking the first major museum survey to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working today, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) will present Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography in October 2022. Contemporary photography-based works will spotlight ...
'Companion Species' Embraces Connections Between Native and Non-Native Artists and Humans, Animals and the Earth
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
This fall, the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents Companion Species, an insightful and timely exhibition that places works of art from Native and non-Native artists in conversation with each other. Its centerpiece is Marie Watt’s vibrant textile “Companion ...
Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
After premiering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in April, an exhibition of Karl Bodmer's portraits of Indigenous people has arrived at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and then will continue on to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX.) in fall 2022. During the early ...
A Rediscovered Masterwork, 19th Century Paintings and Pomo Basketry Combine In Traveling Exhibition 'Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo'
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo explores the intercultural exchange between French-born and -trained American artist Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) and the Indigenous Pomo community of Elem at Clear Lake in Northern California. The exhibition is on view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Protecting Native American Sites, Boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments Are Restored
NPR / October 10th, 2021
Boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments in Utah were reinstated with a slight uptick to 1.3 million acres total, President Biden announced on Friday. Previously, the Trump administration had reduced the size of the protected area by 85%, notes NPR. At the time, ...
Exhibition on Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo Offers Perspectives On Western Expansion and Indigenous Resiliency
ArtfixDaily / August 9th, 2021
Rediscovered masterwork reveals a remarkable story about California history and Indigenous communities. Exhibition is on view December 18, 2021–April 17, 2022, at the de Young museum, San Francisco. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will be the exclusive West Coast presentation ...
'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 ...
Decorative Arts Trust Announces Inaugural Recipients of IDEAL Internship Grants
ArtfixDaily / March 9th, 2021
IDEAL Internship Grants Awarded to the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Backstreet Cultural Museum, MFA Boston, and Newport Restoration Foundation — Inaugural Decorative Arts Trust Grants Support Young Scholars The Decorative Arts Trust ...
Seriously Upbeat Artworks Are Standouts in the New TEFAF Online
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has launched TEFAF Online, running November 1-4, 2020, in a fresh format. This is TEFAF’s first virtual fair, which provides attendees with direct, live access to world-renowned dealers and their selection of vetted artworks. Reducing virtual fair fatigue, ...
Preview Highlights of This Weekend's ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Online
ArtfixDaily / October 5th, 2020
Following a successful virtual spring show, the Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) is looking forward to hosting the annual ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show online in the year of their 35th anniversary. The online show opens at 10 am October 9 and continues through 10 pm ...
A Powerful Trio of Must-See Exhibitions Are Extended As Yale University Art Gallery Reopens
ArtfixDaily / September 27th, 2020
On September 25, the Yale University Art Gallery opened to visitors for the first time in nearly seven months with new covid-19 safety measures in place. “Our world has transformed in ways we never could have imagined since the Gallery closed in March. Now, more than ever, cultural institutions ...