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Art Dealer Graham Arader Lists His Antiques-Filled Hudson River Estate
Bloomberg / March 30th, 2018
New York-based antique map, book, and print specialist W. Graham Arader has listed his 1850s Italianate Victorian residence in Nyack, New York, one of several of his historic residences. “I own the seventh-oldest house in San Francisco,” he told Bloomberg, “I own the only pristine beaux-arts ...
NYC Public Art Project Spotlights Climate Change, Birds and Audubon
ArtfixDaily / March 21st, 2018
In New York City over the last few years, North American birds have been slowly appearing --- in large-scale murals --- to emphasize that threatented birds might be disappearing. The Audubon Mural Project is bringing attention to endangered birds with dozens of public murals, a fitting ode to the ...
New Contemporary Art Museum to Debut in Florence
Firenze / March 18th, 2018
Art collector Roberto Casamonti, founder of the Tornabuoni Art gallery, will open a contemporary art museum in Florence, Italy, on March 24. Housed in the Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, a Renaissance building overlooking Santa Trinita square, the museum will bring 20th century to ...
Nearly $2 Million in Hudson River School Paintings Stolen From Warehouse
New York Daily News / March 13th, 2018
An art owner notified police last summer that his collection of 19th-century paintings worth nearly $2 million was missing from a Brooklyn storage facility. The Hudson River School works were stored within the Crozier Fine Arts warehouse, which was sold to Iron Mountain in 2015. NYPD is ...
Major Gift Expands Mennello Museum of American Art
Orlando Sentinel / March 4th, 2018
A new donation of artwork — the biggest in the history of the Mennello Museum of American Art — will help spur growth in Orlando's downtown, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The over $8.75 million donation in art from museum co-founder Michael A. Mennello was announced Saturday. Orlando ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed for Maintenance, Feb. 26 Week
ArtfixDaily / February 25th, 2018
ARTFIXdaily will be closed for maintenance from Feb. 26 to March 2. Subscriber e-newsletter service will resume on March 5. Coming up: Armory Week in New York. This year, the fair dates have shifted, causing a spread over two weeks for the suite of popular art fairs. The Armory ...
Before Twitter, There Was 'The Tiff,' a Cutting-Edge Painting that Captured a Moment
ArtfixDaily / February 22nd, 2018
A brief exchange, perhaps heated, executed quickly to capture a moment. Sounds like a Twitter tweetstorm, but the subject here is a 19th-century painting once titled The Tiff, painted en plein air, a direct rendering out-of-doors of a couple's conversation in a sun-dappled garden. Executed at ...
Locals to Continue the Fight Against Berkshire Museum Art Sales
Berkshire Eagle / February 13th, 2018
A group of locals from Lenox, Mass., who were blocked from a legal challenge of the Berkshire Museum's plan to sell 40 artworks, are "stunned" by the state attorney general's agreement on Friday to allow up to $55 million in art sales, pending court approval. The residents plan to continue the ...
Lawsuit Erupts Over Portrait of Jackie Kennedy Onassis as Teen
Newsday / February 12th, 2018
A lawsuit was filed in federal court by relatives of former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis after a 1950 portrait of her that was allegedly stolen decades ago surfaced at a Long Island art gallery. The relatives contend that the painting of Jackie at age 19 was stolen in the 1960s ...
Berkshire Museum Gets Green Light From State to Sell Art
New York Times / February 11th, 2018
The Berkshire Museum and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office came to an agreement that will allow the museum to sell artworks from its collections, while one work by Norman Rockwell will be sold to an institution that will keep it in public view, pending court approval. Norman ...
'Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth' Retrospective to Open at The Broad
ArtfixDaily / February 7th, 2018
“One hopes for something resembling truth, some sense of life, even of grace, to flicker, at least, in the work.” Jasper Johns, 2006. Jasper Johns, 87, is considered among the foremost living artists, and his six-decades of work has placed him in the pantheon of American artists since his first ...
Berkshire Museum Art Sales Case Heads to State Supreme Court
ArtfixDaily / February 5th, 2018
An extension for the Massachusetts Attorney General office's investigation into the Berkshire Museum art sales concluded Monday. The museum and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office will next file a petition with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to hear the case over the ...
Boston's Copley Masterpiece Heads to Philadelphia After Eagles Win Super Bowl
ArtfixDaily / February 4th, 2018
While the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles played the Super Bowl on Sunday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art had their own, equally contentious, Museum Bowl. At stake was a prized painting wagered from their permanent collections. A fourth ...
Massachusetts AG Seeks to Extend Berkshire Museum Injunction
NEPR / January 30th, 2018
The Massachusetts attorney general has asked a state appeals court to extend an injunction blocking the Berkshire Museum from selling artworks for one more week. A trove of artworks, including two prized Norman Rockwell paintings, have been halted from being sold by the museum. ...
Sting Narrates a Video Preview of the Met's Thomas Cole Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 28th, 2018
Opening January 30 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings will examine, for the first time, the artist’s transatlantic career and engagement with European art. Click here to watch a video introduction to Thomas Cole's Journey: ...
Mennello Museum Features New York School Innovator Grace Hartigan
Mennello Museum / January 24th, 2018
Through March 18, 2018, the Mennello Museum of American Art, in Orlando, is showing a collection of seminal works by New York School artist Grace Hartigan. "I have found my subject, it concerns that which is vulgar and vital in American life, and possibilities of its transcendence into the ...
Lawsuit Erupts Over George Inness Painting Consignment
Courthouse News Service / January 5th, 2018
An 1877 landscape painting by American artist George Inness is at the center of a dispute over its consigment to a gallery by the family's matriarch. Tennessee couple Richard and Becky Hearty filed a complaint in Cleveland. They contend that Richard J. Hearty Sr. gifted the piece to ...
La Salle University Faces Backlash Over Planned Sale of Artworks
Philly.com / January 4th, 2018
La Salle University in Philadelphia announced plans this week to sell 46 artworks from its museum collections to help fund teaching and learning initiatives, according to school officials. The art, includings works by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Georges Rouault, and Albert Gleizes, ...
George Washington's Diamond Eagle Medal On Display With Newly-Discovered 7-Foot Watercolor in Philadelphia Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2017
The Diamond Eagle — an exquisite jewel-encrusted medal owned and worn by George Washington — is now on display in Philadelphia for the first time since it was presented to Washington in the city 233 years ago, and it will be shown this winter with a rare, newly-found Revolutionary War-era ...
From Abstraction Innovators to Protest Art, Art Basel Miami Beach Mixes Up Eclectic Offerings
ArtfixDaily / December 4th, 2017
From December 7 to December 10, with a VIP preview on Dec. 6, Art Basel's 16th edition in Miami Beach features 268 leading galleries within a more-spaciously redesigned floorplan at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC). 2017 is an important year for the cultural scene in ...