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From Paul Revere to Jacob Lawrence, Artist Soldiers Are Recognized in Georgia Museum of Art's Online Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2020
Every summer, the Georgia Museum of Art participates in Blue Star Museums, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that offers free admission and special discounts to military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day through Labor Day. Blue Star Museums is a ...
Art Exhibitions for the Maine Bicentennial Give a Picture of Place
ArtfixDaily / May 17th, 2020
To celebrate Maine’s 200th anniversary of statehood, art museums across the state have been planning special exhibitions for 2020. While museums are temporarily closed during the health crisis, some of the exhibits can be previewed online. The Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Humanities ...
Take a Stroll in Miami's Bayfront Vizcaya Gardens
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2020
In Miami, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens’ beautiful bayfront gardens are now open and tickets can be reserved online. With 10 acres of outdoor gardens, Vizcaya offers the community ample space to maintain social distance with a low-density experience. For those who are not local, go online to ...
Take an Inspiring Armchair Journey Through Historic Artists' Homes in America
ArtfixDaily / May 11th, 2020
Want to spend the weekend at Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage? View the desert gardens from Georgia O'Keeffe's beloved Abiquiu? Take a virtual getaway there and to dozens more amazing artists' places with a fresh travel guide. A new guidebook to Historic ...
Thomas W. Sokolowski, Former Andy Warhol Museum Director, Remembered
Post Gazette / May 10th, 2020
Thomas W. Sokolowski, longtime director of the Andy Warhol Museum, died May 6 following a seizure that caused major brain damage. He was 70. Sokolowski was one of the founders of Visual AIDS, the New York nonprofit that raised awareness about HIV in the 1980s and began the impactful Day ...
Escape With This Virtual 'Art in Bloom': American Paintings + Filoli Garden
ArtfixDaily / April 28th, 2020
{{image}} Spring is not cancelled. Just around the corner, select historic properties with ample walking trails and gardens in the U.S. will reopen after temporary closures during the health crisis, while many others can be strolled virtually with websites and social media channels. (Call the ...
40 Million People Soak In #MuseumSunshine With a Two Week Pattern of Warm Artworks
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2020
On April 21, the New-York Historical Society and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., partnered "to brighten social media feeds" by sharing sunny artworks with people during the dark days of coronavirus stay-at-home orders. Within just over a week, some 3,000 users ...
Olana Reveals a Surprise for Everyone on the 194th Birthday of Artist Frederic Edwin Church
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2020
“Olana is the monument of Emerson’s, Thoreau’s, and Whitman’s America.” - David Huntington, the visionary art historian who led the charge to save Olana from destruction in the 1960s This May 4th marked the 194th birthday of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), America's seminal landscape ...
View the Entire $100 Million Gift of Artworks to the Cleveland Museum of Art in March
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2020
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in March received a gift and promised gift of more than 100 Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern European and American paintings, drawings, and prints; Chinese and Japanese ceramics; and other works of art from the collection of Clevelanders Joseph P. ...
Step Inside the Smithsonian Exhibition Revealing One Prussian Explorer’s Profound Impact on American Identity
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2020
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture is the first exhibition to examine Humboldt’s impact on five spheres of American cultural development: the visual arts, sciences, literature, politics and exploration, between 1804 and 1903. The exhibition was installed at the ...
Antiques Dealers' Association Online Show a Success Driven By New Client Sales
ArtfixDaily / May 1st, 2020
The eighth edition of the Antiques Dealers' Association (ADA) online show was a resounding success. Before opening on April 24th, 200 visitors were already in the website's 'waiting room,' and another 200 visitors arrived within the first two minutes of being live. All were eager to shop more ...
Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into the $80 Million Knoedler Art Scandal
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2020
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, a new documentary, spins the real-life tale of con artists, a forger, a prominent art gallery, art experts, and top collectors involved in one of the biggest U.S. art crimes ever. If it seemed stranger than fiction when the news broke, the ...
Pets Rule in People's Epic Artwork Recreations During Lockdown
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2020
Quarantined people are enlisting their pets in the still-trending social media challenge to recreate art masterpeices with everyday objects (and household members) at home. As the weeks are drawing into months of stay-at-home orders, people are finding plenty of ways to stage their animal ...
Send Edward Hopper Paintings to All Your Friends With These Maine Bicentennial Stamps from USPS
ArtfixDaily / April 24th, 2020
Marking the 200th anniversary of Maine's statehood, a sheet of new stamps from the U.S. Postal Service features the iconic rocky shoreline of the Pine Tree State as painted by Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Hopper's 1914 oil Sea at Ogunquit (Whitney Museum of American Art) was painted during ...
William H. Gerdts, Giant in the Field of American Art, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2020
"What led Americans to value their own art? One could be very crass about it and say that when Americans could no longer afford the Monets and the Cézannes, then they started buying the Childe Hassams. Money was one factor...But there is also an element of national pride." - William H. Gerdts in ...
Figge Art Museum Wants You to Recreate Its Art in 'Getting Figge With It' Challenge
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2020
In the wake of the very popular Getty Challenge that invited people to post artwork re-creations on social media, the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, has launched the “Getting Figge With It” challenge. Like the Getty's challenge, which was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and ...
Dr. John Driscoll, Renowned American Art Specialist, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / April 14th, 2020
Dr. John Driscoll, owner of Driscoll Babcock Galleries in New York, passed away from COVID-19 on Friday, April 10, 2020. The gallery has provided this obituary written by Glenn Adamson: A giant has passed from the art world – a world that he loved so well, with an intensity and integrity rare ...
What’s Old is New: The Antique Dealers’ Association of America Revives Online Show
ArtfixDaily / April 10th, 2020
The Antique Dealers' Association of America (ADA) is reviving their popular online show platform amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it was announced by ADA President, Steven S. Powers. ADA is the largest member-based antiques trade organization in the United States, founded in 1984. The health crisis ...
Virtual View: A Springtime Awakening with Selected Works from Hawthorne Fine Art
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2020
In celebration of the warmth and rejuvenation of the Springtime, New York's Hawthorne Fine Art presents an online viewing devoted to the beauty of the season. As a season representing renewal and rebirth, many American artists took inspiration from spring’s botanical splendor and explored the ...
Starry Nights: Visions of the Night Sky—Wildling Museum Online Exhibit Explores Nocturne Painting, Astrophotography and Light Pollution
ArtfixDaily / April 5th, 2020
If you're enjoying the Pink Supermoon this week, pair your lunar looking with some nocturnes in art. The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang, California, offers a dazzling virtual view of its exhibition Starry Nights: Visions of the Night Sky. The expanse of the open night sky has ...