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Richard Feigen art collection on view at Yale University Art Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
Art scholar, collector, and dealer Richard L. Feigen, who owns an eponymous art gallery in New York, is sharing his renowned personal art collection for the first time with the public. Yale University Art Gallery is hosting 60 of Feigen's early Italian paintings, considered to be among the finest ...
MOCA exhibition now a tribute to Dennis Hopper
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
On Saturday, actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper passed away at age 74. As ARTFIXdaily wrote last Friday, his artwork will be showcased in the upcoming retrospective "Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by artist-film director Julian Schnabel as the debut exhibition under new Museum of ...
Winslow Homer celebrated in Maine this summer
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
Winslow Homer's (1836-1910) enduringly-popular art---from genre scenes of boys fishing to fierce seascapes---immortalized American life and the land itself at the point when the country transitioned from an agrarian society, centered on farms and small towns, to an industrial nation. Curator ...
Celebrities, others shake up 50th anniversary of Hancock Shaker Village
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2010
Thirty guest curators, including celebrities who collect Shaker furniture and objects, were recruited to help shape the Hancock Shaker Village's exhibition "True and Honest Before the World" in the Berkshire Mountains. Filmmaker Ken Burns, architect/designer Michael Graves, television host Al ...
Influential sculptor Louise Bourgeois passes away
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2010
Paris-born American artist Louise Bourgeois passed away Monday at age 98 in New York City. She was creating artwork just last week, according to Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio. Dubbed the "the mother of American feminist identity art" by Robert Hughes in his ...
Destination London: The Masterpiece Fair is set to impress this June
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
The demise of the 75-year-old Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair last year perhaps paved the way for a new summer showcase for objects of desire: Masterpiece Fair 2010 London. Organizers plan to offer more than the traditional fair offerings of antiques and fine art. Wine, jewelry, ...
Hassam pastel leads Skinner's $3.9 million auction
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
Skinner's May 21 sale of American & European Paintings & Prints rocketed to $3.9 million (including fees) with several world record auction prices set among the 850 lots. The Boston auctioneer profited from fresh-to-market gems from private collections. Leading the sale was the rare and ...
New Wayside Inn Antiques Show fills a niche
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
American art was one category that fared well at the inaugural Wayside Inn Antiques Show, a benefit for historic Longfellow's Wayside Inn, from May 14 to 16, in Sudbury, Mass. Sales at the booths of Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, The Cooley Gallery and Vose Galleries, to name a few of the 45 ...
Artist-stars are on the rise
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper, and Sylvester Stallone have a common thread other than being entertainment superstars. They are painters, of varying talent, who have grabbed headlines for their artwork in the past year. Add Mary Lynn Rajskub, an actress best-known for appearing opposite Kiefer ...
Two architectural firms in the running for new Broad museum
ArtfixDaily / May 26th, 2010
While the decision to build his museum in downtown Los Angeles has not yet been finalized, Eli Broad has gone forward with the process of selecting an architect. The Los Angeles Times reported that the billionaire philanthropist, whose new building will house his collection of 2,000 postwar and ...
"Currier & Ives on The Hudson" opens this summer
Westchester.com / May 26th, 2010
On July 4, a major exhibition featuring Currier & Ives, “printmakers to the American people," will open at the beautiful Federal-style Boscobel House & Gardens in Garrison, New York. Currier & Ives prints have been popular collectibles since the 19th century. The exhibition focuses ...
New MoMA curator will follow latest sensational show
Wall Street Journal / May 26th, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Sabine Breitwieser, an independent curator, author and lecturer, as the new chief curator for its department of media and performance art. "Media and performance art are among the most popular and cutting-edge fields in the arts, and the renewed interest ...
"American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery
Philly.com / May 26th, 2010
"A handsome and piquant show that contains more than a few delights and surprises," writes Edward Sozanski in the Philadelphia Inquirer of "American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery. The Greenville, Delaware, gallery is showing thirty works by leading American artists, mostly from the ...
Crocker Tavern House: A Colonial treasure for sale on Cape Cod
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
A superb example of 18th-century New England craftsmanship is on the market. Crocker Tavern House, a pre-Revolutionary War estate in seaside Barnstable, Massachusetts, is steeped in history. The Crocker Tavern House played an instrumental role in the birth of American liberty. Whigs (Patriots) ...
Get inside a cabinet of curiosities at The Getty or in London
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
The newly-designed European sculpture and decorative arts galleries at The Getty Center in Los Angeles are arranged according to period and theme, incorporating paintings and two-dimensional works of art. One extraordinary piece can be viewed close-up in 3-D: A collector's cabinet from ...
Tate Modern going global with acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
A decade after its inception, Tate Modern has displayed some 880 new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases. In a press release, Britain's bastion of modern and contemporary art states that it will continue to aggressively pursue new artworks from regions other than Europe and North America. ...
Whitney Museum will break ground downtown
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
After a quarter century of quibble, the vote was unanimous for the Whitney Museum to expand with a new building in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. On Tuesday afternoon the museum board finally agreed to build in the new downtown location with an expected completion date of 2015. The ...
Antiques found in Silicon Valley; Ceramics, Americana to feature in two fairs
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2010
"Antiques Roadshow" will air its last episode taped in San Jose on Thursday night. The heart of the high-tech region yielded up some treasures including a circa 1815 chronometer and a suite of lithographs by marine artist Frederic Cozzens (1846-1928). Also in San Jose, the new Vintage Glass, ...
Shelburne Museum rolls out 11 new summer exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2010
From luminist marine paintings to Ogden Pleissner sporting art, New England landscapes by Jay Hall Connaway to Victorian crazy quilts, Vermont's venerable Shelburne Museum, which touts its many "collections within collections," has organized a near-dozen diverse exhibitions for the summer ...
"Behind the Veneer: Thomas Day, Master Cabinetmaker" opens
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2010
Thomas Day, a free man of color who owned and operated one of North Carolina’s largest cabinetmaking shops prior to the Civil War, created a remarkable output of American furniture. Just opened at the North Carolina Museum of History, an exhibition of Day's work---from simple carvings to ornate ...