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De Kooning Snags Record $66.3 Million, Richter's War Jet Gets $25.6 Million at NYC Auctions
AP / November 16th, 2016
From Willem de Kooning’s most productive periods, “Untitled XXV” set a new auction record for a work by the abstract expressionist artist at $66.3 million at Christie's contemporary art sale Tuesday evening in New York. The sale total brought a solid $277 million. When the painting was ...
This Week's New York Auctions Test Post-Election Mood
New York Times / November 13th, 2016
Cautious sellers put few masterworks on the market during this U.S. Presidential election season. Top-tier works that are hitting auction floors this week for the big sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in New York will test the post-election mood --- albeit at the very high end ...
Art Dealer Mary Boone Strikes Back at Alec Baldwin With New Lawsuit
Wall Street Journal / October 28th, 2016
New York art dealer Mary Boone has filed a lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin in response to his legal filing over the sale of a $190,000 Ross Bleckner painting. Baldwin had sued Boone and her gallery for fraud last month over "Sea and Mirror," claiming she sold him a later version of the 1996 ...
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 ...
Hala Wardé Chosen to Design Beirut Museum to Art
Guardian / October 13th, 2016
Situated on a historic and symbolic site across from the National Museum in the center of Beirut, BeMA, the new Beirut Museum of Art, will be conceived by Paris-based Lebanese architect Hala Wardé, who was revealed as the winner of an architectural competition on Thursday. The ...
Rijksmuseum Gives Awards for the Best Riffs On Its Masterpieces
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2016
The Dutch national museum is holding its annual competition for the best "forgery." Entrants can copy an Old Master in a new way or be inspired in any imaginable medium--from food to wood to fragrance to film--by artwork in the collection of Netherland's Rijksmuseum. The three-year-old program ...
Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Leaves After Controversial Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2016
The chief curator for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) has resigned after an exhibition of works by Kelley Walker he curated drew criticism for being racially insensitive. A museum statement: Jeffrey Uslip, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs / Chief Curator for ...
Artist Carrie Mae Weems Creates Political Video With Message: Our Progress Is On the Ballot
ArtfixDaily / October 5th, 2016
A new video project by artist Carrie Mae Weems called “The Power of Your Vote" takes viewers to the streets of diverse Jackson Heights, Queens, to convey a strong message in support of Hillary Clinton as the November election looms. Weems was inspired, in part, by President Obama's ...
Walls Go Up Around Racially Charged Exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
St. Louis Today / September 29th, 2016
Calls for a boycott of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) until an exhibition of works by Kelley Walker was removed have resulted in walls going up around the controversial artworks with viewer discretion signage. Critics had lambasted the Kelley exhibition as racially ...
EXPO CHICAGO Expands Art Program Inside Navy Pier and Around the City
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2016
EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Modern & Contemporary Art, has an expanded program of artists this year selected for IN/SITU, EXPO Projects, IN/SITU Outside and OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project. IN/SITU, curated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Associate Curator Diana Nawi, features ...
Artist Collaborates With NASA to Create Impactful Images of Dying Glaciers
New York Times / September 18th, 2016
At the Global Exchange summit at New York's Lincoln Center last Friday a new art-science collaboration was announced between photojournalist Justin Guariglia and NASA. Guariglia will work with geoscientists at NASA to “figure out fresh ways to present the effects of climate ...
4 Ways Technology Has Altered the Museum Visit
The Atlantic / September 13th, 2016
The Atlantic breaks down four ways museums will be, and already are, adapting to the digital age. 1. Cellphones are no longer shunned at museums and are used for social media sharing, "selfies," navigating galleries, and more... Atlantic: Embracing cellphones also means that more art ...
Alec Baldwin Sues Manhattan Art Dealer Over Alleged 'Copy'
ArtfixDaily / September 13th, 2016
Actor Alec Baldwin sued Manhattan art dealer Mary Boone in New York Surpreme Court on Monday, alleging that she sold him a later version of a painting for $190,000 that was not the original he thought he was buying. Baldwin says he wanted to buy Ross Bleckner’s 1996 painting 'Sea and ...
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 ...
Finnish State Funding For Helsinki Guggenheim Gets Nixed
Reuters / September 11th, 2016
Finnish politics have sunk plans for 40 million euros in government funding to go towards a new Guggenheim branch. Reuters: A plan to build a Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront - joining the likes of those that grace New York, Bilbao and Venice - appears close to collapse because of a ...
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, ...
The Art of Burning Man Is On Fire Again
ArtfixDaily / August 28th, 2016
Tens of thousands of participants and artists will gather for the 30th anniversary of Burning Man, running Aug. 28 to Sept. 5, in the Nevada desert. It's a "crucible of creativity," explains the event's website. Art enlivens the dusty playa of this eclectic festival in temporary Black Rock ...
Two Bronx Museum of the Arts Trustees Resign
Wall Street Journal / August 28th, 2016
Management style and issues surrounding an exchange project involving Cuban art has unsettled some serving on the board of trustees at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Wall Street Journal reports: A schism over governance at the Bronx Museum of the Arts has prompted two top trustees to ...
Artist Peter Doig Wins Trial Over Authentication of His Own Work
BBC / August 24th, 2016
Scottish-born artist Peter Doig has won a long and strange trial over artwork authentication --- the living artist had to prove a painting was not his own. A Chicago court ruled that Doig did not paint a landscape that former Canadian prison official Robert Fletcher said he bought ...
Digging Into the SFMOMA Deal with the Fisher Family
San Francisco Chronicle / August 22nd, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Desmarais reports on the Fisher Collection of contemporary art on display at the expanded SFMOMA, and the scant details provided on the deal between the museum and the Fisher family. As Donald Fisher’s health failed, a new deal was struck with SFMOMA, resulting ...