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Museum Featuring Westervelt CEO Jack Warner's Collection Will Close, and More Art Sold
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2018
The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art in Alabama, housing the renowned collection of 17th-20th century American and Asian fine art, furniture and decorative arts formed by the late Westervelt Company CEO Jack Warner, will close on Aug. 31. In a statement the museum noted: "While The Westervelt Company ...
Artworks Rediscovered in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art's Vault in 2019 Exhibition
The Art Newspaper / August 15th, 2018
A trove of artworks hidden away in Iran's Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art will finally be on display next year. A planned exhibition of the long unseen works was scrapped for Berlin last year, and selections are now scheduled to show in Tehran. Modern American and European masterworks, and ...
Appeals Court to Hear Suit Against Berkshire Museum Art Sales
Berkshire Eagle / August 14th, 2018
While some $47 million in art may have already been sold, an appeals case against the Berkshire Museum's offloading of its collections will go forward in Sept., reports the Berkshire Eagle. Detractors say the museum breached a contract with museum members and betrayed the public trust by ...
'My Greatest Successes Have Come Through Her': The Artistic Partnership of Edward and Christiana Bannister
NewportRI / August 13th, 2018
Through Oct. 8, 2018, the Gilbert Stuart Museum, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, presents “My Greatest Successes Have Come Through Her,” The Artistic Partnership of Edward and Christiana Bannister. African-American artist Edward Bannister rose to fame in the antebellum era, with the ...
Gerry Lenfest, Philadelphia Philanthropist and Arts Patron, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / August 6th, 2018
H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, 88, passed away on Aug. 5, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. A leading philanthropist and driver of civic causes and the arts for the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, Lenfest gave away over $1.3 billion in just two decades. After building a fortune in ...
Rarely-Seen Thomas Hart Benton Painting Emerges in Martha's Vineyard Gallery
Vineyard Gazette / August 2nd, 2018
A gallery in West Tisbury, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, has reportedly acquired a much-admired painting by American master Thomas Hart Benton. The 1926 painting of a moving train, titled Going West, has rarely been exhibited in public. While the similar lithograph is widely ...
Grant Allows Bates College Museum to Acquire Marsden Hartley Art, Create Online Resource
Bates / July 18th, 2018
The Bates College Museum of Art in Maine has acquired a prized painting by American modernist Marsden Hartley, with funds from a $100,000 grant to the museum from a foundation in New York City. The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts helped fund the purchase of ...
Motherwell Painting Found After Missing for Four Decades
New York Times / July 15th, 2018
A monumental painting by 20th century American master Robert Motherwell was recently found after going missing four decades ago, announced the FBI and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, last week. Berman said: “The storied past of this ...
Pasadena Museum of California Art Will Close This Fall
ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2018
Without mention of any reason, the 16-year-old Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) announced this week that the Southern California institution will close its doors. On June 13, at a PMCA Board meeting, Chairman Jim Crawford recommended that the museum close after the current exhibitions ...
Father Countersued Over Basquiat Painting Sale
Courthouse News Service / June 10th, 2018
From Courthouse New Service: Claiming that her father’s lawsuit gutted the auction of a Basquiat masterpiece, the middle daughter in a family of art collectors brought a $100 million legal demand of her own Thursday in the latest swat of an ugly family dispute. “Flesh and Spirit” sold for ...
Record Prices Abound at Sotheby's $392 Million Contemporary Art Sale
ArtfixDaily / May 17th, 2018
On Wednesday, Sotheby's tallied $392.3m total with fees for contemporary art in New York, setting 15 artist records among the 75 lots offered. Just two works failed to sell—by Yayoi Kusama and Lucio Fontana. An Asian private collector won David Hockney's "Pacific Coast Highway and Santa ...
Richard Gray, Noted Gallerist, Remembered
WTTW / May 17th, 2018
Richard Gray, a celebrated art dealer, civic leader, and philanthropist, died Wednesday morning at his home in Chicago, surrounded by family. He was 89 years old. In 1963, Gray founded the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago and he later opened another gallery in New York City. With his ...
Modigliani Nude Fetches $157.2 Million at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / May 14th, 2018
Amedeo Modigliani's largest work and his greatest nude has become the most valuable artwork ever sold at Sothebys—selling for $157 million in the May 14 Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale. Nu couché was acquired by its previous owner, Irish billionaire John Magnier, at ...
Protest Planned Outside Sotheby's Over Berkshire Museum Art Sales
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2018
The grassroots citizens' group Save the Art – Save the Museum has invited fellow supporters to join a permitted protest at Sotheby’s on Monday, May 14 from 5:45 to 7 p.m. at 1334 York Avenue in New York City. The protest is timed to coincide with the auction of two of 40 deaccessioned ...
Diego Rivera, American Art Hits Record Prices in $106 Million Rockefeller Sale
ArtfixDaily / May 9th, 2018
Bidders went bonkers for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller on the second night of the sales series at Christie's in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The first two days of Rockefeller sales have totaled over $765 million, with more to go this week and jewelry in June. ...
Alleged Painting Slasher at Aspen Gallery Denies Doing It
Aspen Times / May 6th, 2018
The British man accused by police of slashing a $3 million painting at an Aspen art gallery last year says he didn't do it. Nick Morley, 40, is named by police and prosecutors as the man dressed in black who walked in and cut the Christopher Wool artwork at Opera Gallery in May 2017. Morley ...
Pacific Standard Time Boosted SoCal Economy by Over $430 Million
ArtfixDaily / May 1st, 2018
The Getty-funded, regional arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA contributed around $430.3 million to the Southern California economy between September 2017 and January 2018, according to a new report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). From the report's ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed May 22 to 25
ArtfixDaily / April 22nd, 2018
ARTFIXdaily will be closed from May 22 to 25. E-newsletter service will resume on May 28. Image: The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery now presents “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in terms of their ...
Artwork from La Salle University Collection Hits the Auction Block
The Inquirer / April 18th, 2018
Philadelphia's La Salle University is unloading a trove of 46 American and European artworks from its museum collections through Christie's in a series of sales beginning in New York this week. School trustees say the sale proceeds will fund initiatives from La Salle University’s five-year ...
Judge Rules for Berkshire Museum Sales of Norman Rockwell, Other Artworks
New York Times / April 6th, 2018
A Massachusetts judge on Thursday gave the final approval for Berkshire Museum's controversial plan to sell artworks from its collections, including a significant Norman Rockwell painting that the artist gifted to the Pittsfield, Mass., institution. The decision comes after a seven month ...