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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 ...
Artist Lauren Fensterstock Will Transform Chrysler Museum Gallery Into a Dark and Glittering Cosmos
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Lauren Fensterstock’s The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk, on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art Jan. 15–June 19, 2022, invites visitors to come face to face with a dark and ominous cosmic landscape. A black comet—encrusted with a dazzling mosaic of glass, crystals, and stones including onyx ...
The Art Show Concludes Successful Edition With New Fall Dates; ADAA Appoints New President and Board Members
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Inaugurating a new moment on the art fair calendar, The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2021 edition yesterday with an enthusiastic response from ADAA members, collectors, museum leaders, and visitors, who ...
First-Ever Exhibition on Van Gogh's Olive Grove Series Reveals His Passionate Artistic Process During a Personal Crisis
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2021
In 2021 and 2022 the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) host the first exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh’s important olive grove series, executed during his yearlong stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Co-organized by the two institutions, ...
From Earliest-Known Indigo Cloths to a Narrative Garment on the 2004 Tsunami, 'Weaving Stories' Spotlights Extraordinary Southeast Asian Textiles and Their Makers
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2021
Lying along the trade routes between India and China, island Southeast Asia has been a crossroads for merchants, pilgrims, and travelers from many parts of the world. Weaving Stories, a new exhibition exclusively at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, brings together more than 40 ...
Museum Retrospective of Marcia Resnick Reveals the Photographer's Innovative Eye In Works From the 1970s-80s
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2021
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), in collaboration with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) and the George Eastman Museum, have announced the first ever museum exhibition of the photographer Marcia Resnick. One of the most innovative American photographers of the 1970s, Resnick is ...
Visionary Modernist Designer Eileen Gray (Finally) Gets More of the Spotlight
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2021
Transformative modernist architecture, enduring furniture designs in museum collections and still being reproduced, and a "Dragons" armchair that, at $28.3 million, remains the most expensive piece of 20th-century design ever sold at auction, belong to a woman lesser known than her male ...
At The Huntington, 2021 Served as a Banner Year for American Art Acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2021
In 2021, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens acquired more than 50 important works of art by a wide range of artists from North America. The acquisitions contribute to a more expansive story of American art, adding hemispheric and global perspectives and diversity to the ...
'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 ...
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Innovates Museum Model in World First; Displays Entire Collection by Size and Climatic Requirements
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2021
With Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a new all-access art museum and system of collection management debuts. The King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, will open the Depot this week, with all 151,000 collection items—from Vincent van Gogh paintings to a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room—on ...
'Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky' Celebrates Nature and Community
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion will present an exhibition focusing on a community of artists surrounding New Jersey native and revered American landscape painter Lois Dodd. “Painting the Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Explore the Night Sky,” opening Friday, November 19, and ...
Family of Jean-Michel Basquiat Tap Sir David Adjaye to Design New York Exhibition of 200 Never-Before and Rarely-Seen Artworks
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
The family of Jean-Michel Basquiat has announced that renowned architect Sir David Adjaye OBE will serve as the Exhibition Designer for Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©. The exhibition opens on April 9, 2022 at NYC landmark, the Starrett-Lehigh Building and will feature over 200 never before ...
Survey of Graphic Design Pioneer E. McKnight Kauffer Charts the Legacy of an 'Underground Modernist'
ArtfixDaily / November 2nd, 2021
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York is showing the largest-ever exhibition of works by E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954), a pioneer of commercial art—the profession known today as graphic design. On view now through April 10, 2022, “Underground Modernist: E. McKnight ...
New Exhibition is First to Fully Examine Impact of Southern European Sites on Picasso
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2021
This winter The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, offers a celebration of Pablo Picasso’s flourishing creativity in the south of France and northern Spain. Organized by The Dalí Museum in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, Picasso and the Allure of the South offers a ...
Bob Thompson Exhibition Explores His Brilliant Artworks From a Career Cut Short
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2021
"All this was totally my imagination of a faraway place." - Bob Thompson An important traveling exhibition offers a rich reconsideration of a visionary African American painter. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Bob Thompson (1937–1966) earned critical acclaim in the late 1950s for his paintings of ...
Machine Learning Recreations and Mysteries of Stolen 'Portrait Of a Lady' Spotlighted in Major Klimt and Vienna Secession Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / October 31st, 2021
Missing for over two decades, a portrait by Gustav Klimt returns to public view in a major exhibition focused on the Vienna Secession in Rome. Galleria di Moderna Ricci Oddi, in Piacenza, has loaned to Klimt: The Secession and Italy its prized Bildnis einer Frau (Portrait of a Lady). The ...
Newly-Acquired 'Soundsuit' by Nick Cave Anchors Reinstalled Gallery at Honolulu Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) recently acquired a major work by legendary contemporary artist Nick Cave. “Soundsuit 8:46” (2021), a mixed-media mannequin of vintage floral textiles and sequined appliques, is a response to recent police violence against people of color, in particular the ...
New Exhibition Celebrates Collaborations of French Brothers-Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2021
This fall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Circus: Bouroullec Designs, featuring the work of leading contemporary designers, the brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (b. France, 1971, and 1976). The title of the exhibition is inspired by their lively design sense and ...
Spooky Images Abound in the Traveling Exhibition 'Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art'
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Kentucky's Speed Art Museum welcomes Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), this major exhibition debuted at Toledo Museum of Art and travels to the Speed (on now until January 2, 2022) before ...
New York's ADAA Art Show Opens Next Week at Park Avenue Armory and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Members of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation’s foremost nonprofit organization of leading art dealers, return together this fall for The Art Show to showcase their dynamic programs—featuring more than 40 solo presentations, as well as an array of ...