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Picasso's Great-Grandson Launches 'Florian Picasso NFT' Collection With a John Legend Collaboration
The Art Newspaper / February 3rd, 2022
The Picasso estate initially stymied sales of more than 1,000 NFTs created by the granddaughter and great-grandson of Pablo Picasso last week. With more clarifying language around the sales, Marina Picasso and her son Florian have since launched their first NFT collection which went live Tuesday ...
Van Gogh Self-Portraits Reunited For the First Time in 130 Years for Landmark Exhibition at The Courtauld
ArtfixDaily / February 2nd, 2022
Van Gogh. Self- Portraits opens February 3 – May 8, 2022, at The Courtauld Gallery in London. This unprecedented exhibition takes as its springboard Van Gogh’s iconic Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, one of the most celebrated works in The Courtauld collection, and will bring together ...
Rodin's Expressive Sculptures of Hands on Display in New Installation at Philadelphia's Reopened Rodin Museum
ArtfixDaily / February 2nd, 2022
On Friday, February 4, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is reopening with a new installation that focuses on Auguste Rodin’s expressive sculptures of hands. The focused grouping brings together fifteen bronzes and plasters, including works that are rare or unique to the museum’s collection, some ...
MFA Boston Kicks Off Spring with 2 Powerful Exhibitions: 'Philip Guston: Now' and 'Turner's Modern World'
ArtfixDaily / February 1st, 2022
This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings focus to a pair of differing game-changer artists, J. M. W. Turner and Philip Guston, who responded to their own tumultuous times with innovative artistic visions. One of Britain’s greatest artists, J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and ...
Franz Marc Painting Stars in Auction After Restitution From Museum to Heirs of Nazi-Persecuted Family
ArtfixDaily / February 1st, 2022
An oil painting by German expressionist Franz Marc - returned by a German museum to the descendents of a Jewish collector who fled the Nazis - could fetch a record price for the artist at auction next month. Marc's The Foxes (Die Füchse), a canvas featuring two colorful intertwined foxes, is ...
Belvedere Museum to Sell NFTs Derived From The Kiss by Gustav Klimt for Valentine’s Day
ArtfixDaily / January 27th, 2022
Vienna's Belvedere Museum, in collaboration with artèQ, is dropping NFTs of its historical Gustav Klimt masterpiece The Kiss (Lovers), as announced on Thursday. Billed as a "digital declaration of love," the sales will come just ahead of Valentine's Day in a limited number of digital ...
Time Travel to Early 1900s Austria With Kirkland Museum's 'Josef Hoffman's Vienna'
ArtfixDaily / January 4th, 2022
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver presents Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna Jan. 21 through April 3, 2022, offering visitors the chance to time travel to early 1900s Austria without the need of a passport and plane ticket. Revel in the influence of architect and designer Josef ...
Kehinde Wiley Brings a 'New Kind of Sublime' to the National Gallery London
ArtfixDaily / December 30th, 2021
This winter, in his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, American artist Kehinde Wiley explores the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition – mountainous, coastal, sublime, Romantic and transcendental – through the mediums of film and ...
Peter Lynch Donates More Than $20 Million in Art to Boston College
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2022
Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company and trustee associate at Boston College, has gifted 27 paintings and three drawings—worth in excess of $20 million—from his and his late wife Carolyn’s private art collection to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, ...
Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2021
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer for the first time in its history. With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The ...
'Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy' to Explore Extraordinary Fashion Displayed in European Art Galleries at San Francisco's Legion of Honor
ArtfixDaily / December 2nd, 2021
Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts ...
Monet Brings $24 Million at Beijing Sale, Topping Record for Western Artwork in China; Records Fall in Christie's $192 Million Hong Kong Sales
The Art Newspaper / December 2nd, 2021
At China Guardian’s evening sales in Beijing on Sunday, Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers sold for RMB154.1m (around $24.1m, with fees) at the first-ever Impressionist and Modern art sale of the leading Chinese auction house. The 1913 oil of Monet's beloved Giverny ...
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch Photography Returns to NY's Scandinavia House
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2021
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography, an exhibition organized by American-Scandinavian Foundation with The Munch Museum in Oslo that first brought the photographic work of the master painter to NYC in 2017/18 before traveling worldwide, returns to Scandinavia House (58 Park Ave., NY) ...
'Grand and Humble': 19th Century Russian Prints Gifted to Georgia Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
Two recent gifts to the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia have one common theme: life in mid-19th-century Russia. The next focused exhibition in the museum’s “In Dialogue” series, “In Dialogue: Views of Empire: Grand and Humble,” will display two print collections that create a ...
$125 Million Gift to Met Museum Kick-Starts Modern Art Wing Transformation
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a lead donation of $125 million, the largest capital gift in the museum's history, to overhaul its modern and contemporary art wing. Donors Oscar L. Tang, a Met trustee, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, an art historian and archaeologist, will ...
Toomey & Co. Dec. 2 Auction to Feature Rare Frank Lloyd Wright Weed Holder and Rediscovered Alphonse Mucha Painting
ArtfixDaily / November 28th, 2021
Oak Park, IL — Toomey & Co. Auctioneers’ December 2 Art & Design sale will feature a rare and important museum quality weed holder by Frank Lloyd Wright. The vase is one of 11 known examples, with others found in the collections of prestigious museums such as ...
The Arts Society's Artvent Calendar Offers a Free Digital Daily Treat For the Festive Season
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2021
An innovative digital take on the traditional advent calendar, The Arts Society’s Artvent Calendar offers 31 days of digital art experiences and events to delight and surprise throughout the month of December. Behind each door of the digital calendar art lovers will discover a range of daily ...
Exhibition Exploring How French Art and Design Inspired Walt Disney Will Open at The Met in December
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2021
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts will be the first-ever exhibition at The Met to explore the work of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ hand-drawn animation. Opening December 10, it will draw new parallels between the magical creations of the Disney Studios and their ...
Italian Women Artists Celebrated in Groundbreaking Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Travels to Detroit Institute of Arts
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
A collaboration between the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Detroit Institute of Arts (Dia), By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, is on view now to January 9, 2022, at the Wadsworth, and travels to the Dia, February 6 – May, 29 2022. An exhibition solely ...
The Art Show Concludes Successful Edition With New Fall Dates; ADAA Appoints New President and Board Members
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Inaugurating a new moment on the art fair calendar, The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2021 edition yesterday with an enthusiastic response from ADAA members, collectors, museum leaders, and visitors, who ...