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An Olfactory Exhibition at the Prado Invites Visitors to Smell the Rubens and Brueghel
ArtfixDaily / April 5th, 2022
Jasmine, ambergris, orange blossom...visitors can breathe in the heady scents represented in a 17th-century garden scene painting in this fresh exhibition. On display until July 3 at the Prado in Madrid, The Sense of Smell, a painting by Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, is the focus ...
Trailblazing 18th-Century Woman Artist's Work Goes On Public View For First Time in Over 230 Years in San Francisco
ArtfixDaily / April 4th, 2022
In 1791 artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist set out to defy expectations, to prove to all of Paris that a woman could indeed “compose history paintings.” Exhibiting Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell at that year’s Salon, the official exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, she became the ...
Louvre Halts Sale of Record-Smashing Strawberries Painting by Chardin
The Art Newspaper / April 3rd, 2022
A still-life by 18th-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin sold to a U.S. art dealer for an artist record of €24.3m ($26.8 million) in Paris last week. The sale has now been put on hold by the Louvre. The Louvre’s director, Laurence des Cars, told Le Figaro that she has requested ...
MGM Resort's New Acquisitions Reshape Its Public Fine Art Collection
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2022
In October, MGM Resorts sold 11 works by Pablo Picasso, some decades-long fixtures in the casino restaurant, for a total of $108 million. Sotheby's conducted the sale on-site at the MGM Bellagio in Las Vegas, and while several works by Picasso remain in the collection, the resort entity now aims ...
Russian Art Auctions Cancelled by Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams
The Art Newspaper / March 16th, 2022
In light of Russia's attack on Ukraine, sales of Russian art scheduled for June in London have been called off by Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's, reported The Art Newspaper. “Sotheby’s will not be holding Russian art sales in June,” a spokesperson for the auction house says in a ...
'Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water' Exhibition Opens at Seattle Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2022
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water (March 18–May 30, 2022), exploring the many ways artists around the world have engaged with the theme of water. The exhibition features works from SAM’s collection and three local lenders, with over 80 works of art ...
New Monograph Along With Exhibition of Lesser-Known Works By Käthe Kollwitz Revisit Her Powerful Art
ArtfixDaily / March 14th, 2022
“I want to have an effect during this age in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” - Käthe Kollwitz, diary entry from 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), considered one of the most important German artists of the first half of the 20th century, famously addressed themes of war, ...
Investigators Probe Cold Case Murder for Clues to Gardner Museum Heist
Smithsonian Magazine / March 3rd, 2022
An unsolved murder in 1991 is being revisited by authorities for possible clues into the infamous art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, reports Bob Ward for Boston 25 News. In the over three decades since thieves made off with treasured artworks valued then at $500 million, ...
Magritte Masterwork Fetches Record $79.8 Million
ArtfixDaily / March 2nd, 2022
Described as one of the most "definitive images of Surrealist art," René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières captured an artist record price of £59.4 million ($79.8 million) at Sotheby’s on Wednesday. The Belgian Surrealist's previous record was $26.8 million, landed by Le Principe du ...
Exhibition at The Met to Examine Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! through the Lens of Slavery, Colonialism, and Empire
ArtfixDaily / March 2nd, 2022
Organized around a single object—the marble bust Why Born Enslaved! (1868) by French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast is the first exhibition at The Met to examine Western sculpture in relation to the histories of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and ...
Restituted Franz Marc 'Foxes' Painting Leads Christie's Shanghai/London Sale
ARTFIXdaily / March 1st, 2022
A three-part auction hosted both in London and Shanghai totalled $334 million in sales for 20th and 21st century art on Tuesday. The Christie's auction marked the first ever time that London's mid-season evening sale included a section of sales taking place in Asia. The top lot was a ...
'Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels' Exhibits Some Radical Experimentation at The Getty
ArtfixDaily / February 28th, 2022
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Powder and Light: Late 19th-Century Pastels, an exhibition tracing the evolution of pastels from Impressionism to Symbolism, featuring works from the Getty collection including Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de ...
Collection of 150 Mesmerizing Works by M.C. Escher Reveal a Mathematician's Mind in Comprehensive Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / February 28th, 2022
The Chrysler Museum of Art is set to bring the mesmerizing work of the renowned M.C. Escher to Norfolk, Virginia. M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations, on view April 15–Aug. 28, spans the Dutch artist’s entire career with more than 150 works from the collection of Paul and Belinda Firos of Athens, ...
Blockbuster Loan Exhibition of Russia's Prized Morozov Collection Is Still in Paris
ArtfixDaily / February 27th, 2022
A major international exhibition, which opened in Paris last fall after being postponed three times due to COVID-19, offers a rare view of 200 masterpieces collected over a century ago by the Russian brothers, Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. As Russia invaded Ukraine last week, the exhibition of ...
New Exhibition on Artists' Perceptions of War Opens at Clark Art Institute
ArtfixDaily / February 24th, 2022
The Clark Art Institute’s latest exhibition presents four centuries of war imagery from Europe and the United States in As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War, on view March 5–May 30, 2022. Spanning European and American art from 1520–1920, the exhibition of prints, drawings, and photographs ...
Murillo's Prodigal Son Series Brought Together in Major Loan Exhibition Following Restoration
ArtfixDaily / February 20th, 2022
The Meadows Museum, SMU now presents a major exhibition focusing on Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s series of six paintings illustrating the biblical parable of the prodigal son. On loan from the National Gallery of Ireland, the canvases travel to the United States for the first time for Murillo: ...
The British Museum Turns J.M.W. Turner Artworks Into NFTs
The Art Newspaper / February 9th, 2022
After launching 200 Hokusai works into NFT sales last fall, The British Museum is now offering up prized works by J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) as collectible NFTs. The Turner NFTs, comprising a jpeg edition with "tradable" code on the blockchain, start at around €4,999 ($5,660). "Think of it as ...
Santa Barbara Transforms Into a Van Gogh Destination With City-Wide Events During Landmark Exhibition This Spring
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2022
Santa Barbara, a seaside city known for its café culture, sweeping views and vibrant arts scene, is set to draw visitors this spring for a full van Gogh experience. Organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) and in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art, Through Vincent’s Eyes: ...
National Gallery London Unveils Newly-Restored Acquisition 'The Red Boy' While 'The Blue Boy' Visits
ArtfixDaily / February 6th, 2022
Two of the most iconic examples of British portraiture are currently on public view at the National Gallery in London—the newly-acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence portrait known as The Red Boy joins The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainborough's masterpiece which is on loan through this spring from the Huntington ...
The Getty's 'Poussin and the Dance' to Combine 17th-Century Paintings, Antiquities and Contemporary Dance
ArtfixDaily / February 3rd, 2022
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) was the most influential French painter of the 17th century, and an artist fascinated by movement. Living and working in Rome, he painted scenes of wild revelry—dancing nymphs and satyrs—that drew inspiration from classical antiquity and helped make ...