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Samsung Founding Family To Donate Massive Art Collection As $10.8 Billion Inheritance Tax Looms
AP / April 28th, 2021
South Korea's Samsung founding family will donate tens of thousands of artworks and gift hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research to help pay an estimated 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in taxes related to inheritance, following the death of chairman Lee Kun-Hee last year, according ...
'Decade of Change' Photography Award Winners Spotlight Environmental Issues in Touring Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / April 28th, 2021
1854 & British Journal of Photography have announced the winners of the inaugural Decade of Change award From the creators of Portrait of Humanity and Portrait of Britain, two of the most viewed photographic exhibitions in history, Decade of Change is a new environmental ...
'Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe' To Debut At High Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2021
This fall, the High Museum of Art will present "Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe" (Sept. 3, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022), featuring nearly 60 works drawn from the High Museum’s folk and self-taught art collection, which has the largest public holdings of Rowe’s art. The exhibition chronicles ...
UC Irvine's Institute and Museum of California Art To Showcase Collection Highlights and Private Loans in 'Radiant Impressions'
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2021
UC Irvine's Institute and Museum of California Art (IMCA) will debut a new exhibit, “Radiant Impressions,” upon reopening in May after an over yearlong closure due to the pandemic. Selections of California art, from the IMCA’s permanent collections and private collections, will be exhibited. ...
Browse Art and Antique Finds In The Philadelphia Show With Tastemakers Martha Stewart, Michael Diaz-Griffith, Emma Bazilian and Others
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2021
The 2021 Philadelphia Show continues online this week through Friday, April 30, showcasing over 1,000 works of art, antiques, and design from the country's finest dealers. Visitors to the show can return daily to explore new inventory offered by exhibiting dealers. Three new Tastemakers, ...
Dallas Museum of Art and Van Gogh Museum Co-Organize First Exhibition Dedicated to Van Gogh’s Olive Grove Series
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2021
In 2021 and 2022 the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) host the first exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh’s important olive grove series, executed during his yearlong stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Co-organized by the two institutions, ...
'Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America' Joins Mayflower 400 Exhibition This Summer at The Box In Plymouth, UK
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2021
Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America will be displayed next to The Box’s major Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy exhibition in England, which tells a shared transatlantic history. Concurrent celebrations which began in 2020 at Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum Plans To Reopen May 14 With New Installations and Extended Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / April 23rd, 2021
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, reopen to the public Friday, May 14. This is the second reopening of the museum following closures on March 14, 2020 and on Nov. 23, 2020 as a public health precaution due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The museum ...
Discover New Twists On Tradition In The Philadelphia Show With Online Programs and Offerings From 50+ Top Dealers
ArtfixDaily / April 22nd, 2021
Celebrating its 59th edition showcasing America's preeminent dealers of antiques and fine art, The Philadelphia Show has a fresh look and a new approach. A stalwart show known for American art and antiques, the 2021 Philadelphia Show includes international influences with European and Asian ...
Traveling Exhibition On American Impressionism Brings Together Prime Examples From Public and Private Collections
ArtfixDaily / April 22nd, 2021
After its debut at Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis (on view now through May 9, 2021), the exhibition travels to San Antonio Museum of Art (June 11–September 5, 2021) and Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA (October 9, 2021–January 9, 2022) America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a ...
Olafur Eliasson Floods Museum With Site-Specific Installation Open to 'Human and Non-Human Alike'
ArtfixDaily / April 21st, 2021
A new site-specific installation entitled Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has brought a literal flood inside the Fondation Beyeler, in the Swiss city of Basel. For this solo show (now through July 11, 2021), the artist immerses the museum in a border-crossing investigation ...
An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Florida Outsider Art
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2021
The passion for Outsider Art runs deep in Florida, where self-taught artists have forged an indelible mark of special attention on the creative landscape of the state. An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection of Florida Outsider Art is the most comprehensive exhibition ...
Museums Send Deaccessioned American Art To Auction, While One Sells Privately For New Acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2021
Pandemic-induced impacts on museums, many temporarily closed for months to over one year, include shrinking revenue. Museums directors estimated that their institutions would be losing the equivalent of 35% of their annual operating income in 2020, according to an October survey by the American ...
Schwenke Auctioneers April 25th Spring Sale Features Paul McCartney’s Gold Record Award
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2021
Sale Comprises Estate Jewelry & Watches, Cameras, Folk Art, Americana, Political Ephemera, Fine Art & Outsider Art, Books & Rugs Woodbury, CT – On Sunday, April 25th Schwenke Auctioneers will hold its Spring Fine Estates Auction comprising over 600 lots of estate property including ...
Modern Art Museum Shanghai 2021 Program Spotlights Zaha Hadid Architects, Premieres Immersive Alice in Warholand Experience, and Launches a Night Museum and Sculpture Garden
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2021
The Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai has announced its 2021 exhibition program, including the first large-scale exhibition of Zaha Hadid Architects in China, ZHA Close Up – Work & Research from 19 June - 15 September, and the first fully curated narrative museum featuring Andy Warhol in ...
Underexamined, Women-Led Pattern and Decoration Movement Explored In Expansive Exhibition at Hessel Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2021
This June, the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, will present With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement, originally on view at The ...
The Imaginative Sculptures of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne Showcased In Summer Exhibition at The Clark
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2021
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed, May 8–October 31, 2021, at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. It has been more than forty years since an American art museum has mounted a presentation of the work of sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, and the ...
Major Exhibition Exploring Cartier’s Inspirations from Islamic Art to Make U.S. Debut at Dallas Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / April 18th, 2021
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (MAD Paris), in partnership with the Maison Cartier, have announced the co-organization of Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity. This major exhibition traces the inspirations from and adaptations of Islamic art and ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed Week of April 12, Returning Next Week With A Virtual Look at The Philadelphia Show
ArtfixDaily / April 11th, 2021
ARTFIXdaily will be closed for the week of April 12 and subscriber e-newsletter service will resume on April 19. Coming up, look for our coverage of The Philadelphia Show (April 23-30) as the 59th edition showcases stellar American fine and decorative arts along with European and Asian works. ...
Salvator Mundi Gets the Spotlight in Two Films
ArtfixDaily / April 8th, 2021
Since the Salvator Mundi sold at a Christie's auction for $450M in 2017, setting a world record price for any artwork, intrigue has followed. Restored after its rediscovery in 2005 and then sold as a rare work by Leonardo da Vinci, the painting of Christ as Savior of the World continues ...