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Denver Art Museum Unveils $150 Million Campus Transformation Project, Reimagined Galleries

ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2021

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) reopened its expanded and reimagined campus to the public on October 24, 2021, unveiling all eight levels of its iconic Gio Ponti-designed Lanny and Sharon Martin Building (formerly referred to as the North or Ponti Building), and the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome ...

Fine Arts Paris Returns to Carrousel du Louvre and Online

ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2021

Fine Arts Paris – the Paris-based specialist art fair dedicated to the fine arts from Antiquity to modern times – returns for a fifth edition in its emblematic venue, the Carrousel du Louvre, November 6-11. The premier destination for fine arts in Paris, the fair will once more bring together the ...

Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Makes 'Extremely Unusual' Admissions In Alleged Fraud Case, Court Reports

The Age / October 25th, 2021

Melbourne-born art dealer Andrew (Andy) Valmorbida, scion of an Italian-imports family dynasty in Australia, reportedly admitted to fraud involving multimillion dollars in artwork last May. A judgment was recently published following the civil case in the offshore tax haven of Jersey, part of the ...

The Whitney Publishes Second Volume of Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Transfers Archive to MoMA

ArtfixDaily / October 25th, 2021

The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the publication of the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of the films of Andy Warhol. Illuminating the true significance of Warhol’s radical experiments in film and his mastery of the medium, The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, ...

First-Ever Art Exhibition Held at Giza Pyramids Features AI Robot Artist

ArtfixDaily / October 25th, 2021

Through November 7, Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, takes part in a major contemporary art exhibition and sculpture trail at the great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. Titled Forever is Now, the exhibition represents the first time in the 4,500 year history of the ...

Dual Exhibitions in Vermont Consider Hiroshige and Japanese Printmaking Today

ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021

Southern Vermont Arts Center presents Japanese Woodblock Prints: Then and Now -- two complimentary Mokuhanga exhibitions in Manchester, Vermont, this winter. Hiroshige and the Changing Japanese Landscape, opening Saturday, November 20 in SVAC’s Elizabeth de C. Wilson, is a presentation of ...

Julie Green, Artist Known For Humanizing Death Row Inmates With 'Last Supper' Plates, Remembered

ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021

Artist Julie Green passed away this month after a cancer diagnosis. “Green, a wide-ranging artist whose paintings also examined gender roles, wrongful conviction, animal abuse and their own colorful life — from a childhood in Japan to a teaching post in Oregon — was 60 when they died Oct. 12 at ...

Created As a Private Catharsis, The Pictures of Boris Lurie Tell a Story of Survival in New Exhibition

ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021

Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try is on view now at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. This is a first-of-its-kind exhibition on the 20th century artist and Holocaust survivor and the Museum’s first contemporary art show. The exhibition is centered around ...

Norway's Massive Munch Museum Finally Opens to the Public

ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2021

A decade in the making, a museum dedicated to one of Norway's most famous artists debuts this week. Oslo's new waterfront Munch museum—rebranded as MUNCH—is among the world's largest museums devoted to a single artist. MUNCH opens to the public on October 22, with tickets available from ...

Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey

ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2021

Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington, now presents the first solo exhibition of the work of Kenjiro Nomura (1896-1956) in over sixty years along with an accompanying publication. Kenjiro Nomura, American Modernist: An Issei Artist’s Journey features the Japanese American artist’s work ...

Immersive Exhibition of Jeffrey Gibson Works Opens at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021

Outside Boston, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has opened the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE, on view through March 12, 2022. This exhibition concerns the intersections of four powerful words—INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE. The two outer terms suggest boundless ...

Innovating From Antiquities, Rubens Masterfully Took Inspiration From a Wealth of Sources

ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021

Paintings and drawings by Rubens reunite with antiquities that inspired them The Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens’s (1577-1640) passion for the classical past shaped his personal values and provided him with powerful artistic inspiration. Rubens: Picturing Antiquity at the Getty Villa Museum ...

Exhibitions on Mid-Century Abstraction and Modernist Design at Black Mountain College to Open at Asheville Art Museum

ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021

The Asheville Art Museum is planning two new companion exhibitions highlighting artworks from its collection. Gestures: Mid-Century Abstraction from the Collection explores works in a variety of media that speak to the vibrant abstract experiments in American art making during the middle of ...

5 Reasons Visitors Can't Stay Away From the Museum Café

ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021

After some 18 months of pandemic-related closures, many museum cafés are back to serving meals and sweet treats, in-house or grab-and-go. For visitors trudging through art galleries, the end game can be a rewarding slice of cake or relaxing lunch. Here are five museum café items that visitors map ...

'Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies' Exhibition Travels to Massachusetts

ArtfixDaily / October 19th, 2021

The growth of two of New England’s oldest and most revered summer art colonies will be the subject of a special exhibition, Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies, opening Oct. 30, 2021 at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Mass. The show features works by ...

From Part of Her Pink Granite Sarcophagus to a Pair of Everyday Sandals, Get a Glimpse of Queen Nefertari's Egypt

ArtfixDaily / October 17th, 2021

An exhibition now in Oregon explores the world of Queen Nefertari, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II. Drawn from the world-renowned Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, Queen Nefertari’s Egypt immerses visitors in the magnificent palaces and tombs of ancient Egypt, including Queen Nefertari’s ...

The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership; Thomas Cole Masterwork Is First Purchase

ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2021

In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation, based in Los Angeles County, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California, have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The ...

MFA Boston Reframes the American Experience in 'Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories'

ArtfixDaily / October 17th, 2021

Quilts are a democratic art. They provide a window into the lives of the many people who have made and used textiles, across geographic, political, social and economic contexts. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), from October 10, 2021 through January 17, 2022, Fabric of a Nation: ...

Vienna's Museums Post Nude Artworks on OnlyFans

CNN / October 17th, 2021

Vienna's tourism board is turning to adults-only platform and website OnlyFans to post museum artwork that is deemed "explicit." The move, reports CNN, is a work-around to social media censorship of art that at times flags images of nude figures or even suspends museum accounts due to art content ...

Skies Fill With Crowd-Pleasing Smoke in San Francisco, Thanks to Artist Judy Chicago

Mercury News / October 17th, 2021

In conjunction with Judy Chicago's popular retrospective (through January 9, 2022) at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the pioneering feminist artist launched a spectacular smoky rainbow display over Golden Gate Park on Saturday. Forever de Young, Chicago's complex, multicolored ...