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After 13 Years, ARTFIXdaily to Cease Daily News Service
ArtfixDaily / August 15th, 2022
ARTFIXdaily will end weekday e-newsletter service after 13 years of publishing art world press releases, events and news. The final subscriber e-newsletter appeared on July 8, 2022. Thank you to the thousands of readers of more than 3,000 daily e-newsletters, especially those subscribers who ...
Inaugural Exhibition at The Cheech Highlights Groundbreaking Chicano Artists
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2022
One of the nation’s first permanent spaces dedicated to showcasing Chicano art and culture opened on June 18. The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Southern California debuted with the center’s first exhibition, Cheech ...
Crystal Bridges Explores the U.S. Constitution Through Art in New Exhibition 'We the People: The Radical Notion of Democracy'
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2022
Original print of the U.S. Constitution headlines exhibition sponsored by Ken Griffin (who purchased it for $43.2 million at Sotheby's in 2021) that combines art and history to broaden the American narrative A document at the very heart of U.S. democracy was unveiled in an art exhibition this ...
Dalí / El Greco Side-by-Side Exhibit Prompts: 'Are They Really Paintings of the Same Thing?'
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2022
From July 9 to December 4, 2022, The Auckland Project in the U.K. will unite two Spanish masterpieces from British collections at the Spanish Gallery. Acquired by Glasgow city in 1952 directly from the artist, Salvador Dalí’s Christ of St John of the Cross is one of the most celebrated and ...
'Dakota Modern' Retrospective of Oscar Howe Reexamines His Role in 20th Century American Art
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2022
One of the 20th Century’s Most Innovative Native American Painters, Howe Challenged Stereotypes and Created Pathways for Native Painters The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York debuted “Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe” in March. This major traveling ...
Dinosaurs Draw Buyers at Summer Art Events From Masterpiece London to Sotheby's
The Art Newspaper / July 5th, 2002
A full skeleton of a Gorgosaurus is expected to sell for as much as $8 million at auction this month, in a first-ever offering of the dinosaur species at a public sale, according to Sotheby’s. A close relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the well-preserved Gorgosaurus specimen dates to around 76 ...
Demonstrators Glue Themselves to Iconic 'The Hay Wain' Painting, 'The Last Supper' Copy in Latest Oil Protests
CNN / July 5th, 2022
One of Britain's best-known masterpieces became the backdrop for a demonstration at London's National Gallery on Monday, one in a series of protests at cultural sites by British environmentalist group Just Stop Oil. On July 4, two people covered John Constable's peaceful pastoral painting "The ...
Take a Peek at 'Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts'
ArtfixDaily / July 4th, 2022
Following appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Wallace Collection in London (now through Oct. 16, 2022), the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif., will present the international traveling exhibition “Inspiring Walt Disney: The ...
$450 Million Hong Kong Palace Museum Debuts with Forbidden City Treasures, Louvre Loans
ArtfixDaily / July 4th, 2022
Hong Kong’s newest arts and cultural landmark, the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) located in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), officially opened its doors to the public this week. An unprecedented loan show from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City is among the largest and ...
Recently Conserved American Portrait Reveals a Once-Erased Enslaved Boy's Story
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2022
Ogden Museum of Southern Art has unveiled a recently conserved 19th-century painting, Bélizaire and the Frey Children, to reveal a hidden central figure. The painting once again includes the image of an enslaved boy that was intentionally painted out and only recently uncovered and restored to ...
Bill of Rights Precursor Document Could Fetch $5 Million at Auction This July
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2022
This July, Sotheby’s will offer Virginia’s official ratification of the U.S. Constitution, a rare copy which also includes a list of 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, all part of a 13-page document from June 25, 1788, that later helped establish the Bill of Rights. It is one of only ...
Boris Johnson Formerly Deemed British Holding of Parthenon Sculptures 'Unacceptable'
ArtfixDaily / July 3rd, 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson once ardently supported the Parthenon Marbles repatriation to Athens in letters to the Greek culture minister that detailed why the British government should give the ancient sculptures back. Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea has reported on previously unseen and ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed to July 4
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2022
ARTFIXdaily is closed for website maintenance and updates. E-newsletter service will resume from July 4. Looking ahead, the exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern opens June 18 at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. One of the largest Rodin exhibitions in the ...
100 Great British Drawings Spotlighted at The Huntington
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2022
“100 Great British Drawings,” a major exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, will trace the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, spotlighting The Huntington’s important collection of more than 12,000 works that represent the ...
New Exhibition 'Sand Unshaken: The Origin Story of Alma Thomas' Reveals Striking Historical Background That Informed Artist's Work
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2022
A new exhibition highlights the life and work of renowned artist Alma Thomas, a native of Columbus, Georgia. Alma Thomas rose to fame in 1972 at 80 years old as the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum in NYC; she was also the first African American woman to have her work ...
New Colby Museum Exhibition Unveils Previously Unseen Works by Andrew Wyeth
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2022
Life and Death shows the artist engaging with his own mortality A new exhibition in Waterville, Maine, at the Colby College Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, offers the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered series of drawings in which the artist Andrew Wyeth ...
See 5 Phenomenal Floral Works in The Whitney's American Modernism Show
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2022
Floral works are a highlight in the telling of The Whitney's collection transition from focusing on realism to more abstraction in its holdings of early American Modernism. The Whitney Museum of American Art now is showing At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, an ...
First Exhibition to Explore the Collaborative Partnership of James McNeill Whistler and Joanna Hiffernan opens at National Gallery This Summer
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2022
When James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839–1886) met in 1860, they began a close professional and personal relationship that lasted for over two decades. Featuring some 60 works including paintings, drawings, and prints, The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James ...
Designer Duro Olowu Selects Objects That Amplify Pattern for Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2022
Nigerian British designer Duro Olowu has guest curated the 20th installment in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s “Selects” exhibition series, which invites designers, writers and cultural figures to explore and interpret objects in the museum’s permanent collection. On view in New York ...
Leading Asian Artists Create New Works Within Hancock Shaker Village
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2022
In its first major exhibition on contemporary Asian art, A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing is now on view at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Mass., through November 14, 2022. This immersive, site-specific exhibition features three acclaimed Asian artists: Yusuke Asai of Japan, ...