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Rarely Shown In the U.S., Masterworks from the Bemberg Foundation Go On View at San Diego Museum of Art This Summer, Along With Ana de Alvear's Photorealistic Drawings
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2021
The San Diego Museum of Art plans to open to two summer exhibitions, Cranach to Canaletto: Masterpieces from the Bemberg Foundation and Everything You See Could Be A Lie: Photorealistic Drawings by Ana de Alvear. From Old Master paintings to contemporary, hyper-realistic ...
Explore Scenes of American Impressionists' Winter Haven in the Exhibition 'St. Augustine in a New Light'
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
A new exhibition from the Lightner Museum explores the work of the American Impressionist painters who wintered in St. Augustine, Florida, at the dawn of the 20th century. St. Augustine in a New Light is on view now through July 5, 2021. The traveling exhibition American Impressionism: ...
Maya Lin's 'Ghost Forest' Takes a Stand In Manhattan's Madison Square Park
ArtfixDaily / May 11th, 2021
After a delay due to COVID-19 precautions, Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of forty-nine spectral cedar trees, is a powerful new public art work on view in New York's Madison Square Park, now through November 14, 2021. Killed by saltwater infiltration in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, the ...
Planned 50% Funding Cuts to Arts Education In UK Sparks Protests
Guardian / May 10th, 2021
A planned 50% funding cut to arts subjects at universities in the U.K. has been met with fierce resistance. The UK's Office for Students (OfS) and the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, rolled out a plan that reduces spending for “high cost” higher education arts subjects in England from ...
Walter B. Stephen Pottery: Cameo to Crystalline
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
Artist Walter B. Stephen (Clinton, IA 1875–1961 Asheville, NC) contributed to Western North Carolina’s identity as a flourishing site for pottery production and craftsmanship in the early 20th century. Walter B. Stephen Pottery: Cameo to Crystalline features art pottery and functional vessels ...
In A First, Only Artist Collectives Are Shortlisted For Turner Prize 2021
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
Tate Britain has announced the shortlist for Turner Prize 2021: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. An exhibition of their work will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK, from September 29, 2021 to ...
Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies on View this Summer in Maine
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies will explore the relationship between the historic and still-thriving art colonies of Monhegan, Maine, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, featuring the work of artists connected with both places. Organized in collaboration with ...
Group Protests The Newark Museum of Art's Planned Sale of Thomas Cole Painting; 'A Senseless Monetization'
The Art Newspaper / May 9th, 2021
Facing $6 million in revenue loss during the pandemic, the temporarily closed Newark Museum of Art will deaccession a number of collection artworks. Critics are particularly decrying the planned sale of “Arch of Nero,” an 1846 painting by Thomas Cole scheduled for sale at Sotheby's on May 19 and ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens New Galleries and Public Spaces in Major Renovation
ArtfixDaily / May 6th, 2021
On May 7, 2021, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils to the public the culmination of two decades of planning, design, and construction: a project by the celebrated architect Frank Gehry that represents a major milestone in the renovation, reorganization, and interior expansion of the museum’s ...
Take A Virtual Walk-Through of Desert X 2021 in the Coachella Valley
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2021
After a postponement due to pandemic stay-at-home orders, Desert X 2021 is in its final weeks of a 9-week (to May 16) run in multiple loactions across California's Coachella Valley. On-site visitors can download a mobile app for exact locations and information on artworks. This third edition of ...
British Artists Ackroyd & Harvey Plant 100 Oak Trees Outside Tate Modern
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2021
In advance of the Tate Modern galleries' reopening (planned for May 17) in London, Beuys’ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum. The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate ...
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Splitting Up. Now What About Their Art Collection?
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their marriage after 27 years, the couple announced via Twitter on Monday. Noting that "..we no longer believe that we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives," their statement says. They have 3 adult children. The pair will continue to ...
Now at Peabody Essex Museum, Traveling Exhibition 'In American Waters' Casts New Light On Our Relationship With the Sea
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is now showing In American Waters, a painting exhibition that reframes and expands our understanding of American culture and environment by looking at the sea. For over 200 years, American artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry, ...
Birding Is Ultra Popular During the Pandemic; This Exhibition Offers An Eyeful of 'Rare and Wonderous' Feathered Friends
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is now showing Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820, through July 25, 2021. The exhibition, curated by TMA’s Head of Interpretive Projects and Managing Editor Paula Reich, showcases the museum’s recent acquisition of the important six-volume series ...
David Hockney Digital Billboards Deliver A Brilliant Sunrise To Major Cities
New York Times / May 2nd, 2021
Celebrated British artist David Hockney has created a 2½-minute animation of a sunrise in spring that will be broadcast on digital billboards across five major cities thoughout May. Now living in Normandy, France, Hockney, who is 83, used an iPad during lockdown to create the digital work, ...
The Bold Modernist Print Designs of Saitō Kiyoshi Surveyed In New Exhibition At The Ringling
ArtfixDaily / May 2nd, 2021
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art now presents Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening, a new exhibition on view through Aug. 15, 2021, in Sarasota, Florida. Comprised of recent donations of artworks by Saitō from Charles and Robyn Citrin to The Ringling and other collections, Saitō ...
Eli Broad, Billionaire Businessman Who Revitalized L.A. Cultural Scene, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / May 2nd, 2021
Eli Broad (1933-2021), the influential billionaire businessman and philanthropist who poured his fortune into cultural institutions, art collecting, public education, civic improvement and scientific endeavors, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87. His generous philanthropy, including the ...
The Kinsey Collection of African American Art Resumes National Tour
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2021
The Gathering Place and Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will host artworks from the Kinsey collection, beginning May 22 through June 2021 in the ONEOK Boathouse. The collection then travels to Tacoma Art Museum in Washington this summer. The widely acclaimed exhibition, The Kinsey ...
Marie-Josée Kravis Named MoMA Chair, Replacing Leon Black
New York Times / April 29th, 2021
New York's Museum of Modern Art announced on Tuesday that philanthropist Marie-Josée Kravis will replace investor Leon Black as chairman. According to the New York Times, Kravis, said in the virtual board meeting: “I know it’s a huge responsibility. I will try to live up to it.” Businesswoman ...
Art Heals: A Museum In Italy Becomes COVID-19 Vaccine Site Enveloped In Claudia Comte's Site-Specific Audiovisual Work
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2021
From April 29, 2021, a Covid-19 vaccine center will be set up at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rivoli, on the outskirts of Turin, Italy. Vaccinations will be administered in the galleries of a Claudia Comte exhibition where visitors will be ensconced in a specially-created ...