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Whistleblower CFO Fired by San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
SF Chronicle / November 17th, 2015
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums whistle-blower Michele Gutierrez is out of a job — and it happened soon after the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that she had gone to the city and the state attorney general with allegations of financial misconduct involving powerful museums ...
Louvre Among Cultural Sites Set to Reopen Monday After Terror Attacks on Paris
ArtfixDaily / November 15th, 2015
Paris cultural sites including the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and others will reopen on Monday at 1pm after a national moment of silence for the 132 victims killed in a terror attack around the city on Friday night. A state of emergency was imposed Nov. 13 after 8 or more ...
Sony's Crackle Premieres Auction House Drama Series in Nov.
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2015
Sony's Crackle streaming service will launch a new drama on Nov. 19 that explores the behind-the-scenes of a high-end auction house and it comes with a bit of gunfire. The network describes The Art of More, its first scripted series, as showing “the underbelly and surprisingly ...
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Highlights Something Old, Something New Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / October 22nd, 2015
Rooted in Victorian times and infused with the energy of today's tech industry, San Francisco is a place where old and new, tradition and innovation, blend seamlessly. West Coast art collectors and designers just as easily mix styles and periods, and flock ...
S.F. Fine Arts Museums Refutes Allegations Against Board President
San Francisco Chronicle / October 19th, 2015
Dede Wilsey, the president of the board of trustees at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a major philanthropist, was reported to be under investigation by city officials after a complaint was filed of financial misconduct, according to an Oct. 16 article in the San ...
U.S. Appeals Court Rules for Google in Book-Scanning Case
Reuters / October 16th, 2015
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Friday rejected infringement claims from the Authors Guild and several individual writers against Google's online project to scan millions of books for public usage online. The project began in 2005, but has been halted by litigation from ...
Douglas Druick Resigns Lead Role at Art Institute of Chicago
ArtfixDaily / October 7th, 2015
Douglas Druick, the president of the Art Instiute of Chicago since 2011, announced that he will step down from the top position when his replacement is found. His decision was told to the museum's board on Tuesday evening. Druick, 70, has been with the museum since 1985. He was at the ...
German Art Historian Tapped to Head the British Museum
Guardian / September 27th, 2015
A German art historian has been named to lead the British Museum, which ranks as the UK's most popular tourist attraction. Vast collections spanning human history and cultures from the Parthenon marbles to Navajo silver will be overseen by Hartwig Fischer, 53, the first ...
U.S. Regulations on Ivory Sales May Change For Antique Trade
Eyewitness News / September 16th, 2015
For over a year, the antiques industry has been subject to tighter U.S. federal regulations on ivory sales. Congress will revisit this fall the 2014 regulations meant to protect an endangered species by curbing the ivory trade. Maine Antique Digest reported: ...
Oil Protestors Spill Into British Museum Over BP Sponsorship
Guardian / September 13th, 2015
Dozens of activists disrupted the British Museum and Tate Modern on Sunday in protest of BP sponsorships of the cultural institutions. Dressed in black, some protestors spelled out "NO" with their bodies. The groups involved want the museums to drop BP for future fudning. “They get to purchase ...
Harvard Students Rent Museum Art for Their Dorm Rooms
Harvard Crimson / September 10th, 2015
Harvard students can now decorate their dorm rooms with ilmited edition prints by famed artists from Andy Warhol to Pablo Picasso rented from the Harvard Art Museums. The art rental program dates back to 1972 when an anonymous donor to Harvard's Fogg Art Museum set ...
ARTFIXdaily Holiday Break - E-Newsletter Service Suspended Aug. 10-14
ArtfixDaily / August 5th, 2015
ARTFIXdaily will be on holiday and our offices closed the week of Aug. 9. There will be no e-newsletter service or promoted content from Aug. 10-14. The e-newsletter will resume on Aug. 17. ArtGuild members may continue to post press releases, events, inventory and blogs to ARTFIXdaily ...
U.S. Slips Ahead of China in Global Art Auctions
Art Newspaper / August 5th, 2015
China has lost its place as the world leader of public auctions of works of art, according to a report by Artprice that was released to the AFP. Fuelled by major sales in New York, the US has overtaken the Asian giant, which is now followed closely by the UK, reports The Art Newspaper. This is ...
Tech Start-Up Aims to Catalogue All Art on the Market
Bloomberg / July 21st, 2015
A tech start-up wants to catalogue every work of art available on the market with a digital database that logs ownership. Verisart was co-founded by Robert Norton, previously chief executive officer of two online art-commerce sites, Saatchi ...
Park Avenue Armory Receives $65 Million Gift to Create Endowment
NYT / July 12th, 2015
A gift of $65 million is set to create an endowment for arts programming and educactional initiatives at the Parl Avenue Armory, the Gothic Revival-style, hangar-size space on New York's Upper East Side that hosts art, music, performance and other activities. The Thompson Family Foundation, ...
Rijksmuseum Named European Museum of the Year
ArtfixDaily / May 28th, 2015
What is the Rijksmuseum doing right? The European Museum Forum recently named Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum the European Museum of the Year. “This is a great museum, at the height of its powers, providing a rich experience to the public, and a socially aware outreach program for visitors of ...
A. Alfred Taubman, Former Sotheby's Chairman, Remembered
LA Times / April 19th, 2015
Billionaire shopping mall magnate A. Alfred Taubman, who was jailed late in his career for a scandal that shook the art world, died at his Michigan home on Friday. He was 91. Founder of Taubman Centers, Taubman's pioneering development of the indoor mall concept gave him a personal fortune of ...
Tate Leads the Way in Museum Digital Marketing
HBS / March 26th, 2015
A Harvard Business School (HBS) report explores how the London-based Tate has transformed its marketing strategy to treat its online presence as a "fifth gallery," equal in stature to its other four museums. "The singular focus put on digital programs has gone far beyond the marketing ...
#MuseumWeek Begins with Museums Dishing Secrets on Twitter
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2015
Some 2,200 museums, galleries and cultural institutions from over 64 countries are now taking part in the second annual #MuseumWeek on Twitter. The cyber celebration is designed to engage global audiences over seven themed days. Monday's theme was #SecretsMW. The Met mysteriously ...
Museum Secrets Exposed in Twitter's #MuseumWeek Return
ArtfixDaily / March 17th, 2015
Coming up, #MuseumWeek will bombard the Twittersphere with art, antiques, and history factoids, tidbits, and surprises from March 23-29. This second edition (first time in the U.S.) of the weeklong celebration has over 1,400 museums and collections from 55 countries already signed up ...