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Former Assistant to Jasper Johns Sentenced to Prison
NY Daily News / April 23rd, 2015
The ex-assistant to famed abstract expressionist Jasper Johns was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday for swindling the artist. James Meyer, of Salisbury, Conn., stole 22 paintings from Johns and sold them out of a Lower Manhattan studio for a profit of $4 million between 2006 and 2011. ...
Norman Rockwell''s 'Rosie the Riverter' Model Dies
USA Today / April 23rd, 2015
The woman who inspired many during World War II after posing as the model for Norman Rockwell's painting 'Rosie the Riveter' died on April 21 in Simsbury, Conn. Mary Doyle Keefe was 92. Keefe was a 19-year-old telephone operator from Vermont when she posed for Rockwell. With a sandwich ...
Trove of Missing WPA Artworks Discovered in California
NBC / April 21st, 2015
Dozens of missing artworks commissioned by the U.S. government during the Great Depression have been found. Attics, basements and storage areas of California libraries yielded some of the lost art. Investigators with the Inspector General’s office of the General Services Administration ...
Take a Tour Inside the New Whitney
NY Times / April 19th, 2015
The new Whitney Museum of American Art opens May 1 in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Will architect Renzo Piano's design become both an iconic symbol in the New York cityscape and a major art destination on the edge of Chelsea? Take a look at the $422 million building with the New ...
Randolph College Sells Paintings by Edward Hicks and Ernest Martin Hennings
Newsadvance / April 4th, 2015
Randolph College has sold two more works from its collections. Unnamed buyers have acquired Ernest Martin Hennings’ “Through the Arroyo” and Edward Hicks’ “A Peaceable Kingdom,” college president Bradley Bateman announced Thursday. The buyer of the Hennings painting will loan it back ...
School's Thomas Hart Benton Painting Heads to Museum
News Tribune / April 5th, 2015
A painting by Thomas Hart Benton that was hidden in storage by a suburban Kansas City school will go on public view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "Utah Highlands" will be on long-term loan at the museum in Kansas City, starting in late April. "It is fitting that this painting has found ...
Shepard Fairey Set Design Debuts in Justin Peck's Heatscape at Miami City Ballet
ArtfixDaily / April 1st, 2015
Miami City Ballet (MCB) is closing out its season with a world-premiere by choreography’s current wunderkind, Justin Peck, who collaborated on set deisgns with iconic street artist Shepard Fairey, well-known for his 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Part of Points of Departure, the ...
Iconic 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Painting Now Resides in Minnesota
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2015
A version of Emanuel Leutze's famous image of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" has moved from Washington, DC, to its new home at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona. The nearly 3-by-6-foot painting from 1851 was unveiled Sunday at a private event and goes on public view this week ...
Andy Warhol Museum Abandons Plans for New York Outpost
Post Gazette / March 22nd, 2015
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum has dropped plans for a satellite location in New York City. A new 10,000-square-foot space was to showcase works from the museum's collection as part of a 6-acre development on the Lower East Side in Seward Park. “The Andy Warhol Museum, which had been ...
CM Russell's 'For Supremacy' Wrangles $1.5M at Auction
Great Falls Tribune / March 22nd, 2015
Western Art Week ended with an auction to benefit the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, on Saturday. The Russell brought a total of just over $5.6 million, led by 3 three works by Western artist Charles M. Russell — two oils and a bronze — that sold for a combined $2.85 ...
Colonial Williamsburg Offers to Help Protect Iraq's Artifacts, Cyber Attack Follows
ArtfixDaily / March 12th, 2015
The website of Colonial Williamsburg -- www.history.org -- was hacked last weekend in one of several cyber attacks on U.S. websites by a group claiming to be Islamic State. The incident followed an event at Colonial Williamsburg where president Mitchell Reiss, a former senior U.S. ...
American Modernism Highlights of Armory Arts Week
ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2015
Armory Arts Week is now in full swing, kicking off the international spring arts season with an array of fairs, events and parties around New York. Leading the headlines are the contemporary art attractions, but The Armory Show and The Art Show (both through March 8) also are offering ...
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus to Gift Art Collection to Harlem Nonprofit
Barron's / March 4th, 2015
Some fifty years of collecting 3,500 artworks will culminate in a grand gift to a Harlem school. Paris-born billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus, 82, says his collection will be sold periodically to benefit school children. His bequest includes works by about 170 artists, from big names ...
Whitney Museum to Kick Off New Digs with 'America is Hard to See'
ArtfixDaily / March 3rd, 2015
On May 1, New York will fete the Whitney Museum's debut in a new downtown building with the largest display ever of its collections. First up will be the exhibition America is Hard to See, a vast survey of art in the United States with approximately 650 works by some 400 artists, spanning ...
Construction Begins on $40 Million Museum of the American Arts & Crafts in Florida
My Fox Tampa Bay / February 18th, 2015
Florida businessman and art collector Rudy Ciccarello has endowed the Two Red Roses Foundation, a non-profit educational institution, with extraordinary gifts to foster an appreciation of America's Arts & Crafts Movement. Now, the foundation has a new Museum of the American Arts & ...
Can Computer Algorithms Authenticate Jackson Pollock Paintings?
Arstechnica / February 16th, 2015
Can a computer decipher elements of style to determine genuine works by an artist as opposed to forgeries? A computer scientist at Lawrence Technological University thinks so. Lior Shamir has taken a series of image analysis algorithms to show that a computer can distinguish between real and ...
A Sweet Gift for the Norman Rockwell Museum
NY Times / February 12th, 2015
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., has announced a gift of one of the artist's most recognizable--and sweet--works.
Cy Twombly Tops $178.4 Million Christie's Sale
LA Times / February 12th, 2015
One of Cy Twombly's scribbly "blackboard" works fetched $30 million to lead Christie's auction in London.
Buyer of Record-Setting Georgia O'Keeffe Revealed
artlyst / February 11th, 2015
After an iconic white flower painting ranked the work of Georgia O'Keeffe at the top of the market for any female artist, mystery shrouded the identity of the buyer.
Accused Art Thief Escapes Federal Custody
Courthouse News / February 10th, 2015
Accused art thief Luke Brugnara has escaped a federal building in San Francisco and is currently on the lam.