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London's Regency-Era Soane Museum to Offer Portals into Other Realms With Summer Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2022
Space Popular: The Portal Galleries will present new work and research by the multidisciplinary design practice Space Popular, led by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, at Sir John Soane’s house museum in London this summer. Designed by renowned architect Sir John Soane and filled with his ...
View Highlights of Norway's Massive, New National Museum Debuting June 11
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2022
Norway's long-awaited National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design opens in Oslo on June 11. Designed by Klaus Schuwerk, who partnered with Kleihues + Kleihues of Germany and Dyrvik Arkitekter of Norway, the new 587,000-square-foot building merges the collections of four institutions with some ...
Philanthropist Joan Brock Gifts $34 Million to Chrysler Museum of Art, Including Notable Artworks
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2022
The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA., just announced Hampton Roads Philanthropist Joan Brock has made a $34 million gift to the museum, including 40 works of art from the Macon and Joan Brock Collection and two position endowments, including the Director of the Museum. This gift will also ...
FBI Investigates 25 Basquiat Works Exhibited at Florida Museum
New York Times / May 30th, 2022
The New York Times reports that the FBI Art Crime Team is "investigating the authenticity of 25 paintings that the Orlando Museum of Art says were created by Basquiat." The works are said to have been painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, recovered from a storage unit in 2012, and largely ...
A Museum Dedicated to a Poet Among Cultural Sites Attacked in Ukraine
NBC News / May 30th, 2022
A missile strike targeted the Hryhorii Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum in Skovorodynivka, Ukraine, on May 6. The Russian attack damaged paintings, sculptures and books housed in the historic house museum dedicated to one of Ukraine’s most influential poets and philosophers. The museum burned, ...
Man Throws Cake at Mona Lisa
ArtfixDaily / May 30th, 2022
A man who disguised himself as an old lady in a wheelchair hurled a piece of frosted cake at the Louvre's iconic Mona Lisa on Sunday. "A visitor simulated a disability in order to use a wheelchair to approach the work, which was installed in a secure display case. The Louvre applied its usual ...
Former Louvre Head Charged in Alleged Antiquities Trafficking Case
The Art Newspaper / May 28th, 2022
Former director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, was charged last week as part of an investigation into alleged trafficking of antiquities. An "official legal source" told The Art Newspaper that Martinez was charged Wednesday with “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of antiquities ...
Palm Beach Art Dealer Faces Charges Over Sales of Alleged Fake Basquiat, Warhol Works
Palm Beach Daily News / May 28th, 2022
A Palm Beach art dealer is facing charges after the FBI raided his galleries on Worth Avenue last December in pursuit of allegedly fake artworks sold as originals by blue-chip artists. The case now involves an alleged scheme of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering related to art sales. ...
'Fantasy of the Middle Ages' Exhibition Reveals Medieval Influence on Modern Imagination
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2022
From fairytales to theme parks and Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, the Middle Ages have been mythologized, dramatized, and re-envisioned time and again, proving an irresistible point of inspiration for creative reinterpretations. The stories and images of vibrant illuminated ...
In New Film–The Story Won't Die–Syrian Artists Respond to the Chaos of War
ArtfixDaily / May 26th, 2022
"Art can talk about politics, but politics can't talk about art..." In light of the Ukraine crisis, this new documentary follows Syrian artists who use their work to digest and protest their people's displacement. THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an ...
Long-Lost $100 Million Willem de Kooning Painting Goes on View for First Time Since Theft
ArtfixDaily / May 26th, 2022
More than 30 years after it was cut from its frame, ripped from its backing, rolled up, and stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA), Willem de Kooning’s painting Woman-Ochre (1954 – 1955) will once again be seen by the public in the exhibition Conserving de Kooning: Theft and ...
'Archive of the World' Explores the Complex Dynamics of Spanish America at LACMA
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2022
From June 12 to October 30, 2022, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. Grounded in LACMA’s collection of Spanish American art formed largely in the last 15 years, the exhibition features over 90 works ...
Photographer Ed Burtynsky Turns Climate Change Devastation into a Walkthrough Experience
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2022
This ticketed multimedia event is Burtynsky’s most ambitious project to date and debuts in Toronto this June, then travels Internationally renowned Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has announced his most ambitious project to date. This ticketed, multidimensional indoor walkthrough experience ...
Knox Martin, a Celebrated Painter with a Seven Decade Career, Dies at Age 99
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2022
Art dealer Hollis Taggart announced that celebrated artist Knox Martin died on May 15, at the age of 99. Martin’s career spanned nearly seven decades and he continued to create new abstract paintings into 2022. Some of his most recent works were included in the 2022 solo exhibition, Knox Martin: ...
Italian Police Recover Titian Painting Missing for Almost 20 Years
Smithsonian / May 24th, 2022
A missing 16th-century painting by Renaissance master Titian has been found by a specialized art crimes unit of Italy's Carabinieri. Dating from 1512, the portrait bust has now been returned to the Italian state. Gentiluomo con berretto nero (Portrait of a Man with a Beret) is valued at ...
'Women's Work' Exhibition at Lyndhurst Takes on Craft and Tradition Themes
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2022
A groundbreaking new exhibition of historic and contemporary works by women artists fills the Gothic Revival Lyndhurst Mansion and gallery in Tarrytown, New York, this summer. Women’s Work includes more than 125 works of art in a variety of media by American women from diverse backgrounds ...
Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick Gets 7 Year Sentence for $86 Million Scam
Daily Beast / May 23rd, 2022
For bilking partners out of millions of dollars in art deals, Inigo Philbrick, 34, will spend 84 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release. A judge in New York on Monday handed down the sentence for his elaborate scheme: seven years in prison plus $86 million and restitution ...
The Aldrich Revisits Its Landmark Feminist Art Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / May 23rd, 2022
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1971. Opening on June 6, 2022, 52 ...
Traveling Retrospective Examines the Life and Work of 19th-Century 'Art Sensation' John Leslie Breck
ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2022
John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist, an exhibition showcasing more than 70 works by one of the first American artists to introduce Impressionism to the United States, wraps up its tour this summer and is covered in a richly-illustrated exhibition catalogue. The exhibition — the first ever ...
Collection of Art Dealer Forrest Fenn, Known for His Treasure Hunt, Heads to Auction
ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2022
Santa Fe art dealer and collector Forrest Fenn famously hid a treasure chest -- supposedly worth over one-million dollars -- in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. Based on a riddle-laden poem in Fenn's memoir, hundreds of thousands are said to have pursued the elusive treasure for a decade, and ...