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CBS News Features "River Crossings" Exhibition at Hudson River School Sites

CBS News / October 18th, 2015

CBS Sunday Morning visited the exhibition "River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home" for a segment on October 18 that showcases the new art on view at two artist-home historic sites representing the Hudson River School, the first homegrown art movement in America.  Cedar ...

Public Re-Opening of Gracie Mansion will Showcase Art Additions

ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2015

Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York City, has once again been transformed. Built in 1799, the stately Federal style mansion (East End Ave and 88th St.) underwent a $7-million restoration in 2002, and when first occupied in 2014 by Mayor Bill de ...

Douglas Druick Resigns Lead Role at Art Institute of Chicago

ArtfixDaily / October 7th, 2015

Douglas Druick, the president of the Art Instiute of Chicago since 2011, announced that he will step down from the top position when his replacement is found. His decision was told to the museum's board on Tuesday evening. Druick, 70, has been with the museum since 1985. He was at the ...

National Press Club to Sell Norman Rockwell Painting

Washington Post / October 6th, 2015

A Norman Rockwell painting owned by National Press Club Journalism Institute, and the National Press Club, will be offered at auction this fall with a $10- to $15-million estimate. “Norman Rockwell Visits a Country Editor” was a gift from the artist to the National Press Club more than 50 ...

Judge Rules Two Knoedler Forgery Cases WIll Head to Trial

Art Newspaper / October 6th, 2015

An estimated $60 million in fake Abstract Expressionist works were sold through New York's now-defunct Knoedler gallery, according to the U.S. attorney general. Since the forgery scandal broke in 2011, four out of ten cases have been settled against the gallery and its ...

$45M Paves Way for 'Totally Immersive' Arts Museum in Mississippi

Meridian Star / October 5th, 2015

Officials broke ground Saturday on a $45-million, 58,500 sq. foot facility devoted to Mississippi artists in film, literature, music, arts, dance, theater and visual arts to be named the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience. An opening date in November 2017, ...

Olga Hirshhorn, Art Collector and Widow of Museum Founder, Remembered

Washington Post / October 4th, 2015

Olga Hirshhorn, wife of the late founder of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and known as a significant art collector and patron in her own right, passed away at her home in Naples, Florida on Oct. 3. She was 95. The fourth wife of financier and mining tycoon Joseph Hirshhorn, Olga ...

Murals of Hans Hofmann Headline Art Basel Season at Florida's Frost Museum

Frost Art Museum / September 28th, 2015

First-Ever Exhibition Celebrating Mid-Century Modern Master’s  Mural Projects  . . . Only Florida Showing & First Southeastern U.S. Stop Opening reception free & open to the public on Saturday, October 10 (4 – 7 p.m.) On view Through January 3 A riot of color roars in ...

Lawsuits Over Authentication Are Silencing Artists' Foundations

Fortune / September 24th, 2015

While the European Fine Art Foundation estimated a robust $57.3 billion in global art sales last year, the number of fake artworks on the market  and hanging in museums could also be on the rise, reports Fortune. One reason is that art experts and authenticators are less ...

Crystal Bridges Acquires Oprah's Gift of Faith Ringgold Quilt to Maya Angelou

Huffpo / September 16th, 2015

A quilt by Faith Ringgold, the first quilt by the African-American artist ever to hit the auction market, brought $461,000 at Swann Galleries in New York on Sept. 15. The quilt led an auction totalling $1.3 million for 50 artworks from famed writer and activist Maya Angelou's estate. ...

Revised Plan for George Lucas Museum Is Smaller, Greener

Star Tribune / September 13th, 2015

Much-maligned plans for a massive, spaceship-like museum built to house filmmaker George Lucas's art and memorabilia collection have been revised. The new design was revealed in federal court Thursday as part of proceedings for a nonprofit group's lawsuit to halt the construction of ...

Adirondack Museum's Antiques Show and Sale Opens This Weekend

ArtfixDaily / September 13th, 2015

On the heels of its popular Rustic Furniture Fair last weekend, the Adirondack Museum will host the country's top dealers in art, antiques and vintage pieces embodying the mountain "Great Camp" style this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ablaze in ...

Phillips Auctioneers Ups the Ante With More Modern Art, eBay Deal

Fortune / September 10th, 2015

Phillips auction house might soon give larger rivals Sotheby's and Christie's a run for their money. Led by former Christie's CEO Edward Dolman, Phillips is arming itself with new hires (largely from Christie's, along with the former Brooklyn Museum head Arnold Lehman), rebranding its ...

On the Market: Landscape Architect Lockwood de Forest's Santa Barbara Home

ArtfixDaily / September 9th, 2015

Lockwood de Forest III (1896-1949) was an astute painter of poetic landscapes like his father, the renowned artist-designer Lockwood de Forest Jr. (1850-1932). Yet the younger de Forest (known professionally at Lockwood de Forest Jr.) chose instead to design landscapes, ...

New York State Creates Edward Hopper Citation of Merit to Award Artists

The Art Newspaper / September 1st, 2015

A bill was passed through the New York State Legislature to create a biannual award giving an artist recipient $10,000 and two state-subsidized public exhibitions. The Edward Hopper Citation of Merit, named for the renowned New York-born artist, will be presented to “a ...

Broad Art Museum's Min Jung Kim is Tapped to Lead New Britain Museum of American Art

Hartfoed Courant / August 31st, 2015

Min Jung Kim was named director of the New Britain Museum of American Art on Friday. She currently serves as deputy director for external relations of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum of Michigan State University in East Lansing. Kim follows Douglas Hyland who held the role for 16 ...

Judge Rules Hospital Won't Owe Manet or Millions to Huguette Clark Estate

NY Post / August 31st, 2015

Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan has dodged a lawsuit to recoup $4 million in gifts filed by the estate of copper mine heiress Huguette Clark in 2013. The elderly multimillionaire spent nearly 20 years in the hospital until her death at age 104 in 2011. Her estate's lawyers and a ...

The Hyde Collection Receives 55 Works from Major Modern Art Collection

Times Union / August 30th, 2015

The Hyde Collection, in Glen Falls, N.Y., has received its largest gift of modern art in 30 years - a remarkable group of paintings, drawings,  prints, mixed media, and sculpture by many of the world's leading modern artists. The collection of 55 works of art, including works by Josef ...

$75 Million Museum of Western and Native American Art Planned for St. Petersburg

Tampa Bay Times / August 23rd, 2015

Art collector Tom James, who is executive chairman of Raymond James Financial, says he is under contract to purchase the first two floors of a building at 100 Central Ave. in St. Petersburg, Florida, to partly house a new museum. About 60 percent of 133,600 square feet ...

Seward House's Iconic Thomas Cole Painting Awaits Decision on Fate

Auburn Pub / August 23rd, 2015

In February 2013, the Seward House Historic Museum in Auburn, New York, removed a Thomas Cole painting on display, citing concerns over the work's value and the museum's ability to safeguard the Hudson River School landscsape. Emerson Foundation said a valuation of Cole's ...