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National Academy Museum Buildings Return to Market in 3 Listings
Curbed NY / March 22nd, 2017
Financial needs placed the palatial Upper East Side mansions occupied by the National Academy Museum on the market last spring at $120 million. A buyer was not found and now Corcoran is marketing the properties differently, to be sold together for $78.5 million or as separate listings, reports ...
David Rockefeller, Philanthropist and Art Collector, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / March 20th, 2017
Billionaire banker David Rockefeller died Monday morning at the age of 101. The last living grandson of oil mogul John D. Rockefeller, David Rockefeller made his own reputation over several decades as a banker, philanthropist, art collector, world traveler and influencer in political and ...
Three Notable Art Exhibitions to View on International Women's Day
ArtfixDaily / March 7th, 2017
International Women’s Day is March 8 and it can be an opportunity for appreciating women in the arts with a museum visit. Here are three major exhibitions across the U.S. on view now (check venues for timed ticket availability): Over 6,000 black-and-white photographs — Frida Kahlo's ...
Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Fraud
Art Newspaper / February 20th, 2017
Michigan art dealer Eric Spoutz has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for wire fraud charges in an elaborate scheme to sell fake artworks passed off as by modern American artists. His sentencing also includes three years supervised release and the forfeiture of $1.45m of “ill-gotten ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Atlanta's High Museum Waged a Super Bowl Twitter War
ArtfixDaily / February 5th, 2017
In a stunning comeback the New England Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons, 34 to 28 in overtime, to win Super Bowl LI on Sunday. Leading up to the big game, two art institutions had a fierce exchange of team-centric images called #MuseumBowl -- with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston featuring ...
Lunders Make Another Gift of $100 Million to Colby College Museum of Art
Portland Press Herald / February 2nd, 2017
The Portland Press Herald reports that Colby College Museum of Art has received a gift worth $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder. It is the couple's second gift of that magnitude to the institution in Waterville, Maine, which they have long supported in various ways, including ...
Art Dealer in Knoedler Scandal Avoids More Prison Time
New York Times / January 31st, 2017
Long Island art dealer Glafira Rosales will not be sentenced to more prison time after serving three months for her part in the $80 million scam that helped topple Manhattan's oldest art gallery. Rosales was sentenced to time served on Tuesday at Federal District Court in Manhattan. Her lawyers ...
Planned $75 Million International African American Museum Adds Billionaire Board Member
Post and Courier / January 28th, 2017
A proposed $75 million International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, has gotten the boost of a new billionaire board member. Sheila Johnson, billionaire CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts and owner of three professional sports teams, has agreed to join the museum’s board of ...
Still Foward-Looking: The Four Freedoms
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2017
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The ...
From Trump Plates to Chippendale Chairs, A Range of Works in Antiques Week 2017
Antiques and the Arts Weekly / January 18th, 2017
Americana collectors and "best of the best" object seekers will head to events during Antiques Week 2017 underway now in New York City. Antiques and the Arts Weekly (aka "The Bee") has published this guide to the week's events, exhibitions, shows, lectures, auctions and more. (The action ...
Hamilton Musical Set Designer Installs Display for Sotheby's Americana Week
ArtfixDaily / January 11th, 2017
David Korins, set designer for the Broadway hit Hamilton, served as creative director for Sotheby's installation of Americana Week in New York. Previews opened Wednesday for the blockbuster sales series, from Jan. 18 to 21, with art and objects that span centuries of American craftsmanship. ...
Petition Calls for Museum to Cancel Loan to Trump Inaugural Luncheon
Hyperallergic / January 4th, 2017
Hyperallergic reports that two St. Louis area residents have launched a petition demanding that the Saint Louis Art Museum cancel its loan of the George Caleb Bingham painting “Verdict of the People” (1854–55) for Donald Trump’s Inaugural Luncheon in Washington, DC later this ...
Art Institute Chicago and Cleveland Museum of Art Played Artful World Series
Ohio.com / November 2nd, 2016
After six games led to a tie, the final game of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs dragged on with a rain delay on Wed. night. For the Cubs, victory came with a 8-7 win. The whole suspenseful series also played out most artfully between the Cleveland Museum of Art and ...
Basquiat Moment: 1980s Works in Milan Prior to Major London Showing
ArtfixDaily / October 31st, 2016
Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is getting the star treatment in Italy and the UK from this fall to next. The Warhol friend, known for his singular and direct style, died of a drug overdose at 27 in 1988. He came of age in the post-punk underground art scene of 1970s Lower Manhattan ...
Lucas Museum Reveals Dual Designs for Possible LA and San Francisco Sites
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2016
Two designs from MAD Architects have been released for a museum to be built by filmmaker George Lucas for his collection of American art, illustration, and memorabilia. Months after the Chicago site was abandoned following opposition that stalled the project, San Francisco and Los Angeles are now ...
London Gallery Files Lawsuit Against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné
The Art Newspaper / October 25th, 2016
The Art Newspaper reports that a "new authentication dispute has cropped up around the work of the Canadian-born American abstract painter Agnes Martin, whose minimalist paintings are currently the focus of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (until 11 January). The Mayor Gallery ...
Looking Back at Warhol's Trump Tower
PHAIDON / September 18th, 2016
PHAIDON (publisher of the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne Collection) provides a timely art anecdote among its books on artist Andy Warhol: Presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Warhol’s factory in April 1981, with the idea to commission an image of his Trump Tower, then under ...
Jared Leto to Play Andy Warhol in New Biopic
ArtfixDaily / September 20th, 2016
Actor Jared Leto, who recently portrayed the Joker in Suicide Squad and won best supporting actor in 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, will star in a new biopic on Andy Warhol. Leto will also produce Warhol, and has acquired rights to Victor Bockris’s 1989 book Warhol: The Biography, ...
Museum Voorlinden Debuts With Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra Works
ArtfixDaily / September 12th, 2016
The new Museum Voorlinden near the Dutch North Sea coast opened on Sept. 11 to showcase the impressive collection of modern and contemporary art assembled by wealthy Dutch industrialist Joop van Caldenborgh. Among the highlights is Richard Serra’s 216-ton steel sculpture Open Ended ...
After a Near-Derailment, Exhibition of Masterworks from Tehran's Hidden Art Collection Heads to Berlin
DW / September 8th, 2016
Berlin's Gemäldegalerie will be the first-ever foreign venue for sixty 20th-century European and American masterworks, along with key works by Iranian artists, recently unveiled from the hidden collection of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA). From December 4, 2016, to February 26, 2017, ...