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ARTFIXdaily Closed for the Holidays, Returns January 2022
ArtfixDaily / December 13th, 2021
ARTFIXdaily is closed for the holidays. E-newsletter service will resume on January 3, 2022. Thank you to our readers and to ARTFIXdaily's contributors and advertising supporters for providing inspiring art news and information during the peaks and valleys of 2021. The peaks included a first ...
Pantone Conjured Up A Fresh Color of the Year for 2022 to Signal 'Newness'
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2021
The Pantone 2022 "Color of the Year"—Very Peri—is meant to reflect transformation as humanity adapts during the COVID-19 pandemic with new ideas and technology. Very Peri is described as a "dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone" that is a mix of the "faithfulness and ...
Must-See 'Majolica Mania' Exhibition Continues in New York Through January 2, Then Travels
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2021
Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition yet mounted of a significant nineteenth-century innovation in ceramics. Inspired by Italian Renaissance maiolica and French Palissy ware, “majolica” debuted at ...
Dutch State Moves to Acquire Rembrandt Masterpiece from Rothschild Family
ArtfixDaily / December 8th, 2021
The Netherlands allocates nearly $200 million to acquire an important Rembrandt self-portrait The Dutch State announced on Wednesday its intention to purchase Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer (1636) for the national collection, with the support of the Rembrandt Association and the ...
Norton Museum of Art to Exhibit Jane Peterson Works Alongside 'From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen'
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2021
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, will open From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen (December 10, 2021 – May 1, 2022), featuring major oil and watercolors from American artists in the late 19th- to mid 20th-centuries, gifted to the Norton in 2020. The ...
Artist Takashi Murakami Is Dropping an Army of NFT Avatars
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2021
Following Miami's frenzied week of art sales and a parallel race to capitalize on the NFT craze, Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami teased more of his own NFT avatars, to be revealed this week for public sale on RTFKT. He hinted on Instagram, then followed with image preview posts ...
Billionaire Relinquishes $70 Million in Antiquities, Gets Lifetime Ban From Collecting, Per Manhattan DA
Associated Press via NBC / December 7th, 2021
Billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, 81, will hand over 180 stolen objects valued at $70 million and has received a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities, the Manhattan District Attorney's office announced on Monday. The resolution came after a multi-year, ...
Broad Range of Contemporary & Antique Items In Schwenke Auctioneers December 12th Holiday Fine Estates Auction
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2021
Woodbury, CT – On Sunday, December 12th Schwenke Auctioneers offers over 485 lots of estate fine and decorative arts sourced from multiple estates and collections in the tri-state area. The 11:00 am online sale will be broadcast live on Invaluable and Live Auctioneers. Absentee and phone bidding ...
'Chihuly in the Desert' Brings Large-Scale Glass Works by the Iconic Artist to Frank Lloyd Wright's Famed Taliesin West
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2021
A new exhibition of monumental works by Dale Chihuly is now on view at one of Arizona’s most iconic landmarks and the state’s only cultural UNESCO World Heritage site, Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed home and studio, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale. A historic partnership between the revered artist and ...
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) ...
Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2021
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer for the first time in its history. With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The ...
'Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy' to Explore Extraordinary Fashion Displayed in European Art Galleries at San Francisco's Legion of Honor
ArtfixDaily / December 2nd, 2021
Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts ...
Monet Brings $24 Million at Beijing Sale, Topping Record for Western Artwork in China; Records Fall in Christie's $192 Million Hong Kong Sales
The Art Newspaper / December 2nd, 2021
At China Guardian’s evening sales in Beijing on Sunday, Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers sold for RMB154.1m (around $24.1m, with fees) at the first-ever Impressionist and Modern art sale of the leading Chinese auction house. The 1913 oil of Monet's beloved Giverny ...
Jacqueline Avant, Philanthropist and Noted Collector of Japanese Art, Is Fatally Shot in Her Home
New York Times / December 2nd, 2021
Jacqueline Avant, 81, was fatally shot in her Beverly Hills, Calif., home early on Wednesday. A suspect in the home invasion killing was later arrested after he accidentally shot himself in the foot during an alleged burglary attempt in Hollywood Hills, according to police. The injured ...
Alma Thomas Painting Features in The White House Bedecked for 2021 Holidays
See photos of 2021 White House Holiday Decorations / December 1st, 2021
First Lady Jill Biden unveiled the 2021 White House holiday decorations on Monday with the theme, “Gifts from the Heart.” Decor was chosen to reflect values that “tie together the heart strings of our lives,” explained Biden, including peace and unity, the arts and learning, nature and gratitude, ...
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch Photography Returns to NY's Scandinavia House
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2021
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography, an exhibition organized by American-Scandinavian Foundation with The Munch Museum in Oslo that first brought the photographic work of the master painter to NYC in 2017/18 before traveling worldwide, returns to Scandinavia House (58 Park Ave., NY) ...
'Grand and Humble': 19th Century Russian Prints Gifted to Georgia Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
Two recent gifts to the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia have one common theme: life in mid-19th-century Russia. The next focused exhibition in the museum’s “In Dialogue” series, “In Dialogue: Views of Empire: Grand and Humble,” will display two print collections that create a ...
$125 Million Gift to Met Museum Kick-Starts Modern Art Wing Transformation
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a lead donation of $125 million, the largest capital gift in the museum's history, to overhaul its modern and contemporary art wing. Donors Oscar L. Tang, a Met trustee, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, an art historian and archaeologist, will ...
Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. On view at ...
From Beeple at The Bass to Minting Your Own NFT at Art Basel, Digital Art Descends on Miami Art Week
Miami Herald / November 29th, 2021
Thanksgiving table talk about NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) is over, and the (art) game is on now in South Florida, from a day-long summit to museum talks and special offerings at multiple venues plus the suite of contemporary art fairs during Miami Art Week, through Dec. 5. A sampling of this ...