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45-Foot Female Sculpture Could Head to National Mall
New York Times / October 3rd, 2017
Organizers of an annual vigil held at DC's National Mall plan to temporarily move a 45-foot sculpture of a female nude there to face the White House as part of a November gathering of activists. The "R-Evolution" sculpture stands tall in mountain pose, a yoga posture, and was first created ...
Guggenheim Pulls Artworks from China Exhibition Amid Threats
ArtfixDaily / September 26th, 2017
Threats of violence have forced the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to withdraw three controversial works featuring animals from an upcoming exhibition. "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World," a survey of Chinese contemporary art made between the 1989 Tiananmen Square ...
Jasper Johns Plans Artists' Retreat at His Connecticut Estate
Sharon, Conn. / September 19th, 2017
The town of Sharon, Conn., has approved a plan proposed by representatives of modern master Jasper Johns for an artists' retreat. Johns, 87, owns a 170-acre country home and studio space there that would be converted into the retreat after his death. At a planning and zoning committee meeting ...
Banksy Adds Artworks to Barbican Ahead of Basquiat Exhibition
Guardian / September 18th, 2017
Street artist Banksy created two new murals outside central London's Barbican Art Gallery just prior to a major show of works by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat opening there on Sept. 21. On Instagram, Banksy describes one mural as “Portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the ...
British Art Dealer Convicted of Stealing Artwork from Rolling Stones Guitarist
Rolling Stone / September 13th, 2017
British art dealer Jonathan Poole has been sentenced to prison for stealing artworks from his clients. Poole's clients included the Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, along with the estates of Miles Davis and John Lennon. He plead guilty to 26 charges of fraud and theft made between ...
Asian Art Museum Clinches Guinness World Record for Largest Human Flower Art
ArtfixDaily / July 17th, 2017
A Guinness World Record was set Saturday when the Asian Art Museum organized 2,405 people at San Francisco's Civic Center to form a huge green and pink lotus flower together. Dubbed Lotus Live, the event created the largest recorded human flower art and was meant to mark the 50th ...
$600 Million Historical Art Collection Heads to a Contemporary Art Museum
New York Times / July 17th, 2017
Near Turin, Italy, a private art collection with notable works spanning the 13th-to-20th centuries, and valued at $600 million, will radically transform a contemporary art museum, reports the New York Times. In a statement, the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, Castello di ...
Pablo Escobar Mansion Reborn as Art-Filled Boutique Hotel
Cool Hunting / July 10th, 2017
Art lovers, serenity seekers, and fans of the Netflix series Narcos might be among those visiting Tulum, Mexico, to occupy a residence of the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Escobar's estate there has been slowly developed into an eco-friendly 35-room boutique hotel by New ...
Jimmy Carter Painting Brings Over Half Million Dollars at Auction
AJC / June 27th, 2017
A painting by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, age 92, fetched $525,000 at auction last week. It was the top lot in a benefit sale that brought in more than $2.7 million for the Carter Center. Carter's oil “Monarchs and Milkweed” went to an unidentified buyer during the silent and live ...
Trump's Official Budget Proposal Eliminates NEA
ArtfixDaily / May 23rd, 2017
Similar to a "blueprint" set forth in March, President Donald Trump's official 2018 budget proposal released Tuesday would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities with $29 million to wind down the programs. The NEH chairman resigned on Monday. ...
Banksy Delivers First Anti-Brexit Mural on Dover Wall
BBC / May 8th, 2017
Street artist Banksy over the weekend left a new mural on a wall in the English city of Dover on the Channel. Posited overnight at the Dover ferry terminal, the image depicts a worker chiselling a star from the EU flag. Commentators pointed out on social media that the work is a bit late to ...
Man Slashes $3 Million Painting in Aspen Gallery
Aspen Times / May 4th, 2017
An unidentified man entered an art gallery in Aspen, Colo., and slashed a painting with a blade on Tuesday. Wearing sunglasses and a hat, the bearded vandal lingered outside the Opera Gallery before entering to specifically harm the artwork by contemporary abstract artist Christopher Wool. ...
Artist's WPA-Style Works of National Parks Imagine Effects of Climate Change in 2050
Hannah Rothstein / April 27th, 2017
Berkeley-based artist Hannah Rothstein has created a series of vintage-style posters illustrating the effects of climate change on National Parks by 2050. Her images evoke government-funded 1930s art posters for the national park system - just with bleaker renditions of the landscapes. ...
Tehran Gallerists Charged With Attempting to Overthrow Government
ArtForum / April 12th, 2017
The owners of Tehran’s Aun Gallery, Iranian-American Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin Niasari, were arrested several months ago, jailed in the notorious Evin Prison and have now been formally charged with attempting to overthrow the government, along with other crimes, reports ...
NEA Faces Threat of $15 Million in Budget Cuts For This Year
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2017
The Trump Administration released its budget plan for FY 2018 on March 16 with a proposal for eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other agencies that serve the American people. On Monday, a further slashing was proposed to both the ...
White Artist's Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Sparks Protests
Guardian / March 21st, 2017
A painting at the Whitney Biennial in New York has caused controversy and anger since it went on view Friday. African-American artist Parker Bright stood in front the painting Open Casket for hours over the weekend wearing a T-shirt with the words “No lynch mob” on the front, and “Black ...
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 ...
Advocates Speak Up for Saving the National Endowment for the Arts
ArtfixDaily / March 11th, 2017
With Thursday's official White House release of a $1.1 trillion federal budget blueprint featuring $54 billion in cuts and increased defense spending, America's culture programs are among the many casualties in the proposal set before Congress. Proposed agency eliminations include the National ...
Versailles to Expand Contemporary Art Program With 10 Artists
Le Figaro / March 15th, 2017
Château de Versailles introduced its contemporary art program a decade ago with a solo exhibition of one artist each year. Director Catherine Pégard has announced that Versailles will this year expand the program to feature ten contemporary artists at a time in exhibitions. Massive ...
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 ...