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'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' Online Programming Announced Ahead of Opening at the New Museum Next Month
ArtfixDaily / January 13th, 2021
The New Museum has announced programming and a new opening date for “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn ...
With Complex Paintings That Offer a 'Nuanced Reckoning' For Our Times, This Survey of Julie Mehretu's Powerful Work Heads From LACMA to the Whitney in March
ArtfixDaily / January 4th, 2021
Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu is a midcareer survey that will unite more than seventy paintings and works on paper dating from 1996 to the present, reflecting the breadth of Mehretu’s multilayered practice. Born in Addis ...
In California: UC Regents Buy SF Art Institute Debt; State's $500 Million Grants Program Launches For Small Businesses, Nonprofits & Cultural Institutions
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2021
The Regents of the University of California stepped up to buy San Francisco Art Institute's (SFAI) $19.7 million debt, according to Mission Local. Boston Private Bank & Trust Company moved to foreclose on the 149-year-old art institution in July. The UC Regents will now be landlord to ...
'No Ocean Between Us' Exhibition to Feature Modern and Contemporary Art by Latin American and Caribbean Artists of Asian Descent
ArtfixDaily / December 17th, 2020
On February 12, the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) will open No Ocean Between Us, an exhibition that explores the art of Asian diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean. The exhibition features approximately 65 works of modern and contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists of ...
A Look Back at 2020 - ARTFIXdaily Returns in January
ArtfixDaily / December 10th, 2020
Thank you to ARTFIXdaily's readers, advertisers and content providers for keeping the arts engaged throughout the challenges of 2020. Our subscriber e-newsletter will resume in January 2021. Over the holiday break, the ArtGuild platform will remain open for members to post events and press ...
Craft in America Awarded $100,000 Inaugural Prize for Excellence and Innovation by the Decorative Arts Trust
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2020
As part of the Decorative Arts Trust's dedication to nurturing academic and educational programs, Executive Director Matthew A. Thurlow announced Craft in America as the recipient of the inaugural Prize for Excellence and Innovation in a special presentation last evening. Established in 2020, the ...
ARTFIXdaily's Holiday Gift Guide 2020
ArtfixDaily / November 29th, 2020
Find a selection of holiday gift ideas here, for your favorite people or to enhance your own collection, from upcoming auction sales, museum stores and gallery selections. {{image}} Color As The "Strongest Joy" New York-based Berry Campbell Gallery is participating in the 31st edition of ...
Human Evaluators Fooled By Princeton Student's AI Generated Chinese Paintings
Synched / December 1st, 2020
A college student's thesis work has made strides in machine-original art generation — at least in artistic styles that emphasize edge definition. The student created a data set of over 2,000 traditional Chinese landscape paintings from museum collections to train the model. Synched ...
What Does a Billion-Dollar Government Investment in the Arts Look Like? Sneak Peek Melbourne's Reimagined Arts Precinct
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2020
Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will build a new gallery to present Australian and international contemporary art, design and architecture. When complete, at over 30,000 sqm (320,000 sq ft), NGV Contemporary will be the country’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary art and ...
That Mystery Monolith in the Utah Desert Has Disappeared
New York Times / November 29th, 2020
Art lovers speculated that it was a sculpture by the late Minimalist artist John McCracken. Others were convinced it was an alien marker. Now the shiny, metal monolith that caused a stir after being discovered in the Utah desert last Monday has vanished. The over ten-foot-tall mystery object ...
Artist Cole Sternberg Conjures Up The Free Republic of California
ArtfixDaily / November 23rd, 2020
For ESMoA’s Experience #47 FREESTATE, an art experience in Southern California, artist Cole Sternberg created an agitprop public movement via exhibition, dedicated website and propaganda factory that conjures into conceptual existence The Free Republic of California. Taking place both inside ...
'Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change' Opens at Toledo Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / November 23rd, 2020
American quilts have long been connected with notions of tradition, with patterns and techniques passed down for generations in communities throughout the country. As nostalgic symbols of the American past, quilts have been viewed as antidotes to upheaval during times of change. Disrupting our ...
Crystal Bridges Announces $17.5M Gift from Windgate Foundation to Champion American Craft
ArtfixDaily / November 11th, 2020
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has announced that Windgate Foundation has provided a $17.5 million gift to advance the field of craft through a dedicated position, research, programmatic support, as well as an acquisitions fund to bring craft objects into the museum’s permanent ...
Baltimore Museum of Art's Restrooms to Be Named For John Waters Following a Gift of 375 Artworks
ArtfixDaily / November 12th, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) last week announced a promised gift of approximately 375 works from John Waters’ fine art collection. The long-planned bequest is rich in photographs and works on paper with important examples by 125 artists, including Diane Arbus, Richard Artschwager, Thomas ...
'¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now' Unites Historic Civil Rights-Era Prints With Works by Contemporary Graphic Artists at the Smithsonian
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2020
Features More Than 100 Artworks From the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Leading Latinx Collection In the 1960s, Chicano activist artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking rooted in cultural expression and social justice movements that remains vital today. The exhibition “¡Printing ...
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, ...
Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró
ArtfixDaily / October 29th, 2020
For its final exhibition, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC) in Newport News, Virginia, will present Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró. On view from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, the exhibition will feature more than 60 prints by surrealist luminaries, who sought to tap into the unconscious ...
8 Leading Artists Create Flags Accompanied by Sound-Based Works in 'unFlagging' Series at Ballroom Marfa
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2020
This fall, Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition from October 2, 2020 through January 21, 2021 that features new commissions from eight noted artists. Each artist has created a flag accompanied by a sound-based work that will be on view individually for two weeks, rotating through each ...
'Love, Life, Death, and Desire' Exhibition Opens at Yale Center for British Art
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2020
Damien Hirst’s seminal installation In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) is presented alongside works of historic, modern, and contemporary art. The Yale Center for British Art presents its first new special exhibition since ...
ARTFIXdaily Returns Week of November 1
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2020
ARTFIXdaily will be closed the week of October 25. Subscriber e-newsletter service will resume November 1. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, has recently reopened with Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory retrospective ...