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High Museum Receives Major Gift of Self-Taught Art
ArtfixDaily / April 8th, 2021
The High Museum of Art continues to expand its unparalleled collection of American self-taught art with a gift of 47 works by Southern self-taught artists from Atlanta collectors Harvie and Charles (“Chuck”) Abney. The paintings, sculptures and drawings, which will be followed by 26 works to be ...
MASS MoCA Expands Annual Benefit Auction With Works Donated By 24 Artists
ArtfixDaily / April 8th, 2021
24 Artists Have Donated Works to the Museum to Support the Creation of New Art The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Mass., has announced that it will be greatly expanding its annual benefit auction, offering 19 works and 5 limited edition multiples by 24 ...
'Last Supper in Pompeii' To Open at SF's Legion of Honor This Summer
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021
"Dinner... without a friend is like the life of a lion or a wolf." – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher (4 BC–AD 65) As the ash from Mount Vesuvius began to rain down on Pompeii in AD 79, the people of the city were engaged in two of their most important daily activities: eating and ...
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Reveals Plans for Major Expansion Designed by Safdie Architects
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has revealed plans for an expansion that will increase the size of the current facilities by 50 percent. Adding nearly 100,000 square feet to the 200,000-square-foot facility, the expansion will allow the museum to showcase its growing collection and welcome ...
'Warhol and Basquiat In Focus' Includes Their 1980s Collaborative Works at Reinstalled Warhol Museum
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021
In a large reinstallation of The Andy Warhol Museum’s fourth-floor gallery, Warhol and Basquiat In Focus: Works from the Permanent Collection presents for the first time the Pittsburgh museum’s near-entire holdings of artworks and ephemera related to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), the ...
Take a Virtual Tour of 'Alice Neel: People Come First'
Vulture / April 6th, 2021
Through August 1, 2021, the retrospective of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) now at The Met focuses attention primarily on her radical "pictures of people" and cityscapes made in 20th-century New York. Alice Neel: People Come First is a career-spanning survey with approximately 100 ...
Dutch Police Nab Suspect in Van Gogh, Hals Art Thefts
CNN / April 6th, 2021
Police in the Netherlands said Tuesday that a 58-year-old man from Baarn was arrested at his home on suspicion of stealing two paintings from art museums. The works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals have not been recovered. Van Gogh's “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884,″ was ...
'This Is a Robbery': Netflix Releases New Docuseries On The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
wbur / April 5th, 2021
"...the Gardner heist story finds people unwittingly rooting for criminals, or art, or perhaps both." - wbur "...it could be that a bombshell is forthcoming." - Daily Beast An unsolved mystery for over 30 years, the brazen art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still baffles ...
Largest Ever Survey of Moroccan Art Opens at Reina Sofia
ArtfixDaily / March 31st, 2021
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid presents Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020, a sweeping survey of the culture of Morocco from the 1950s to the present day, running from 31 March - 27 September 2021, in a unique collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art – Qatar Museums and ...
'House of the Drinking Contest' Mosaic Among Restored Artifacts From the Ancient City of Antioch in New Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / March 31st, 2021
A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (Florida) is presenting the famed 1930s excavation of the ancient city of Antioch through rare documents, artifacts, and the exquisite mosaics that were discovered during the archaeological dig. Antioch Reclaimed: Ancient Mosaics at ...
Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2021
The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced the acquisition of a major work by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1654), the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century Italy. Recently rediscovered after having been in private collections for centuries, the painting represents the artist at the height ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art's New Galleries Will Present a Fresh Take on Art of the Americas with a Focus on Philadelphia
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2021
A Spotlight on Immigration, Colonialism, Trade, and Underrepresented Narratives On May 7, 2021, when the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils its new Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Galleries dedicated to American art from 1650 to1850, visitors will enter a succession of generously proportioned spaces to ...
Cleveland Museum of Art's Diverse New Acquisitions Range From A 16th-Century Marble 'Dido' to Amy Sherald's 'Handsome' Portrait
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2021
Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include Aurelio Lombardo’s Dido, an exquisitely carved early 16th-century marble relief sculpture; a drawing by Giulio Romano directly related to one of the artist’s most important frescoed ceilings in Italy; Gustave Caillebotte’s Study of a ...
Here's a Glimpse of 'Making Paradise,' a Major New Exhibition that Explores the Concept of Eden Through Islamic Garden Design
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2021
The Aga Khan Centre Gallery in London this spring presents Making Paradise, a major new exhibition that explores the concept of Eden through Islamic garden design. Realized in collaboration with all three institutions at the Aga Khan Centre, the show (from April 29 to Sept. 30, 2021) brings ...
'The Painters of Pompeii,' OKCMOA is the Exclusive U.S. Venue for This Blockbuster Summer Exhibition, With Virtual Programs For Armchair Travelers
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2021
The exhibition “The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples" will travel exclusively to Oklahoma City Museum of Art from Italy and be on view from June 26 to Oct. 17, 2021. “The Painters of Pompeii” highlights a seldom seen medium – the ...
Bansky Painting Brings A World Record in Christie's $275 Million Sale Series
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2021
After a 14-minute bidding battle, a painting that the street artist Bansky created in homage to health workers in the COVID-19 pandemic brought a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million) at Christie’s on Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities ...
Corning Museum of Glass to Open Groundbreaking Exhibition 'In Sparkling Company' on May 22
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2021
On May 22, The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) will open the groundbreaking exhibition In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain During the 1700s. Presenting the glass objects that delighted the British elite, the exhibition examines how those goods defined social ...
Here's What To See As LA's Museums Prepare to Reopen
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2021
Museums in the Los Angeles region are rolling out reopening plans this spring as local restrictions allow; some institutions have largely been closed for a year due to public health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. museum directors last year estimated losing the equivalent of 35% of ...
Hokusai's 'Great Wave' Print Fetches Record $1.6 Million at Christie's; $35 Garage Sale Find Brings Over $700k at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / March 17th, 2021
Christie’s Tuesday sale of Japanese Art and Korean Art achieved a total of $9,712,250 with 85% sold by lot and 197% hammer above low estimate. There was global participation with registered bidders from 35 countries and 51% of lots sold to online buyers. The top lots of the sale were a hanging ...
France's Only Klimt Painting Will Be Returned to Nazi-Persecuted Owner's Heirs
New York Times / March 16th, 2021
A landscape painting by Gustav Klimt will be restituted more than 80 years after the Nazis looted the work from a Jewish family in Austria. Klimt's "Rosebushes Under the Trees," an oil dating to 1905, has been displayed in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for decades. The provenance for the ...