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Deutsche Bank Is Refocusing Its Art Collection Starting With a Downsize of Historical Works
Forbes / October 14th, 2020
Deutsche Bank, which holds around 55,000 artworks—one of the world's largest corporate art collections—will sell around 200 modern works to fund new art acquisitions, says Friedhelm Hütte, head of Arts Deutsche Bank. "The number of branches is becoming less and less," Hütte says. "That has had ...
Smithsonian Exhibition Explores the Relationship Between Art and Nature
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2020
Nature and art have the power to reframe perspectives and offer moments of release during times of uncertainty. The exhibition “Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020,” opening Oct. 16 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, turns to nature for inspiration to help explain ...
Crystal Bridges Announces Director-Level Appointments, Sam Gilliam Acquisition and New Exhibits on View Including 'Nick Cave: Until'
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2020
Crystal Bridges has announced the appointments of Sandy Edwards as senior director, and Jill Wagar as deputy director, effective immediately. Sandy Edwards’ career exemplifies her deep commitment during her 46-year career to improving quality of life through arts and education. ...
'Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead' – A Century of Women-Designed Landscapes Now At-Risk Shown in Digital Exhibition and New Report
ArtfixDaily / October 1st, 2020
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has released Landslide, its annual thematic report and exhibition about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2020: Women Take the Lead, timed to the centennial of women’s right to vote, focuses on sites across the country designed by women (there ...
New Book 'Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly' Documents the Influential Activist-Artist Group Since 1985
ArtfixDaily / September 30th, 2020
In 1985, a bunch of feminist masked avengers began plastering posters all over downtown New York. They named galleries, museums, critics, collectors, and white male artists who contributed to an art system prejudiced against women and artists of color. Since then, the Guerrilla Girls have ...
Landmark Exhibition at Kew Gardens Explores the Fragility of the Natural World
ArtfixDaily / September 28th, 2020
Paradise Lost will be the first UK solo exhibition by Dutch-born, Mexico-based visual artist Jan Hendrix. The landmark show at Kew Gardens, featuring new works in a number of mediums, will convey the artist’s response to the transformation of the landscape known as Kamay Botany Bay, in Sydney, ...
The Very Timely Philip Guston Retrospective Will Be Postponed For 4 Years
Guardian / September 27th, 2020
A much-anticipated exhibition of Philip Guston — the 20th-century American artist who boldly took on subjects from racism to fascism, along with abstraction and American identity themes — has been delayed for four years. Now falling on the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the show ...
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 ...
'States of Mind: Art and American Democracy' to Open at The Moody in Houston
ArtfixDaily / September 17th, 2020
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston will be reopening its galleries on September 19 with the fall exhibition States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, on view through December 19, 2020. Reflecting on some of the most pressing topics facing American democracy, ...
Art Dealer Sues Marlborough Gallery For $10.8 Million Over Alleged 'Scheme'
ARTnews / September 16th, 2020
Art dealer Max Levai is seeking at least $10.8 million in damages from his former employer. Levai sued Marlborough Gallery and two of its board members, Stanley N. Bergman and Franz Plutschow, in a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Tuesday. Levai accuses them of a ...
American University Museum's Online 'Contested Space' Series Explores Themes Relevant to Presidential Election of 2020
ArtfixDaily / September 16th, 2020
Every four years, American University Museum in Washington, DC, presents exhibitions during the run-up to presidential elections addressing the most heavily contested issues, with the intention of educating and encouraging dialogue. This year, necessitated by the ongoing pandemic, the museum is ...
The Nation's First Native American Owned Gallery Focused Solely on Native Contemporary Artists to Open This Winter
ArtfixDaily / September 16th, 2020
K Art will debut at the end of 2020 in the heart of Buffalo’s Allentown historical district, near Seneca Nation of Indians Territory New York State’s second largest city will receive unique added depth and energy to its social, economic and cultural profile at the end of 2020 with the ...
MFA Boston Will Reopen September 26 with Art of the Americas Galleries, "Women Take the Floor," "Black Histories, Black Futures," Plus a Trio of Blockbusters Later This Fall
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2020
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will reopen on Saturday, September 26, welcoming the community back for one-of-a-kind encounters with works of art. First to reopen will be 31 galleries of the Art of the Americas Wing, featuring the work of North, Central and South American and Caribbean ...
Preview 'Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2020
Cut, folded, torn, glued, burned or embossed, paper becomes a transformational art medium in Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from October 8, 2020 through January 18, 2021. Presenting the work of 22 emerging and underrepresented ...
Virginia Jaramillo's Curvilinear Paintings a Highlight of the Menil's Fall Reopening
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2020
The Menil Collection will reopen its main building and the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston on Saturday, September 12. In the main building galleries, visitors will be greeted with a fresh installation of works by John Chamberlain, Mary Corse, Dan Flavin, Barkley Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, ...
Chrysler Museum's Exhibition 'Come Together, Right Now' Focuses on Timely Themes
ArtfixDaily / September 2nd, 2020
This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, encourages everyone to consider the bonds between us with Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering. On view Oct. 11, 2020–Jan. 3, 2021 at the museum and in outdoor locations in Norfolk, the exhibition will feature more than ...
Preview '2020 Vision' Highlights As the Baltimore Museum of Art Readies to Reopen in September
ArtfixDaily / August 27th, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced that it will begin a phased reopening on September 16, with the intention of having all of its galleries and gathering spaces accessible to visitors by September 30, 2020. For visitor hours, guidelines and updates, visit the museum website. Upon ...
UK's Dyson Family to Open Art Gallery Showcasing Their Stellar Collection
Wallpaper / August 26th, 2020
The UK's bagless vacuum cleaner inventor and billionaire James Dyson, and his wife Deirdre, are planning to open an art gallery at their historic property in the Cotswolds. The new space will feature the Dyson's major collection of modern and contemporary artworks by the likes of David Hockney, ...
Whitney Museum Cancels Exhibition After Criticism Mounts Online
Vulture / August 26th, 2020
The Whitney Museum of American Art canceled the upcoming exhibition “Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in a Time of Change” after protests over the mode of acquisition of works to be shown. Scheduled to open on Sept. 17, the exhibit was to showcase prints, photographs, posters, and ...
In T Magazine: 'America’s Monuments, Reimagined for a More Just Future'
New York Times / August 24th, 2020
With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, for its forthcoming Fall Women’s Fashion issue, the New York Times Style Magazine T asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of reckoning: “...T asked five artists, including ...