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Book Release: The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2020
Born wealthy, the Oxford-educated Rose Dugdale (b. 1941) turned to crime as she became involved with Irish Republicanism. Her radical ideals led Dugdale to mastermind a major art heist. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist, a new ...
Take a Peek At Highlights of MFA Boston's Captivating Cézanne Show
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2020
Cézanne: In and Out of Time (November 11, 2020–February 28, 2021) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), places 12 paintings by Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)—five from the MFA’s collection and seven from private collections—in dialogue with eight works by his peers and forebears, ...
Traveling Exhibition 'Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives' to Debut at Joslyn Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2020
In 2016, ConAgra Foods, Inc. donated nearly 600 Currier & Ives lithographs to Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Now home to one of the largest public collections of these popular and historically significant images, Joslyn has organized a traveling exhibition, on view at the Joslyn from ...
New York Collectors Gift $1 Million Jasper Johns Flags I Print to British Museum
Guardian / November 2nd, 2020
Jasper Johns's Flags I (1973), an iconic print by the American artist, has been gifted to the British Museum by New York-based collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield, reports the Guardian. The piece was exhibited in the British Museum's American Dream exhibition of 2017. It is one of the most ...
From Turmoil to Triumph, Baroque Artist Artemisia Gentileschi's Life Story Inspires TV Series
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
On the heels of a major monographic exhibition exploring the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654) will be a new television series from ViacomCBS studios. The series will begin filming next year following the popular exhibition on the Baroque artist at London's National Gallery (on view ...
Seriously Upbeat Artworks Are Standouts in the New TEFAF Online
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has launched TEFAF Online, running November 1-4, 2020, in a fresh format. This is TEFAF’s first virtual fair, which provides attendees with direct, live access to world-renowned dealers and their selection of vetted artworks. Reducing virtual fair fatigue, ...
Palm Springs Art Museum Sells Helen Frankenthaler Painting for $3.9 Million at Sotheby's
Desert Sun / October 29th, 2020
The Helen Frankenthaler painting "Carousel," donated to the Palm Springs Art Museum by the late interior designer Steve Chase, sold for $3.9 million Wednesday at a Sotheby's auction in New York, reports the Desert Sun. The deaccession of the gift was to cover "direct care" costs for the ...
The Postponed Philip Guston Show Will Open Earlier; Tate Curator Who Criticized Delay Suspended
New York Times / October 29th, 2020
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has said that the four year postponement of "Philip Guston Now" will instead be a two-year delay after an uproar, the New York Times reported. The exhibition will open in 2022, not 2024, as previously announced by the participating museums. The ...
Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró
ArtfixDaily / October 29th, 2020
For its final exhibition, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC) in Newport News, Virginia, will present Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró. On view from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, the exhibition will feature more than 60 prints by surrealist luminaries, who sought to tap into the unconscious ...
8 Leading Artists Create Flags Accompanied by Sound-Based Works in 'unFlagging' Series at Ballroom Marfa
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2020
This fall, Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition from October 2, 2020 through January 21, 2021 that features new commissions from eight noted artists. Each artist has created a flag accompanied by a sound-based work that will be on view individually for two weeks, rotating through each ...
Major New Museum Exhibition Explores Spanish Influence on American Artists
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2020
The extensive impact of Spanish art and culture on American painters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is the focus of a new exhibition co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art. {{image}} Opening on February 12, 2021, in Norfolk, Virginia, ...
Dozens of Art Objects Vandalized in Mysterious Attacks at German Museums
NPR / October 21st, 2020
About 70 artifacts and art pieces were vandalized at several museums in Berlin earlier this month. Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, stone sculptures and 19th century paintings are among the works damaged wtih an oily substance on Oct. 3, according to Berlin police. The museums were open that ...
'Love, Life, Death, and Desire' Exhibition Opens at Yale Center for British Art
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2020
Damien Hirst’s seminal installation In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) is presented alongside works of historic, modern, and contemporary art. The Yale Center for British Art presents its first new special exhibition since ...
ARTFIXdaily Returns Week of November 1
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2020
ARTFIXdaily will be closed the week of October 25. Subscriber e-newsletter service will resume November 1. The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, has recently reopened with Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory retrospective ...
Whitney to Present Exhibition of Kamoinge Workshop Photographers this November
ArtfixDaily / October 15th, 2020
This November, the Whitney presents Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring over 150 photographs by fourteen early members of the Kamoinge Workshop, nine of whom are living and working today. In 1963 a group of Black photographers based ...
Deutsche Bank Is Refocusing Its Art Collection Starting With a Downsize of Historical Works
Forbes / October 14th, 2020
Deutsche Bank, which holds around 55,000 artworks—one of the world's largest corporate art collections—will sell around 200 modern works to fund new art acquisitions, says Friedhelm Hütte, head of Arts Deutsche Bank. "The number of branches is becoming less and less," Hütte says. "That has had ...
Stanford Economists Win Nobel Prize For Auction Theory
Bloomberg / October 12th, 2020
The Nobel prize for economics was awarded on Monday to Americans Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson. The two game theory specilaists won for their designs of mathematical models that promote “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats,” said Göran K Hansson, ...
Tourist Returns Stolen Items to Pompeii Citing 'Negative Energy'
CNN / October 12th, 2020
A tourist from Canada who took five artifacts from Pompeii 15 years ago has returned the items after blaming them for bad luck. The woman mailed two white mosaic tiles, two pieces of amphora vase and a piece of ceramic wall to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii along with a note explaining her ...
A Favorite Pupil of W.M. Chase and Friend of Helen Keller, This American Impressionist Is Spotlighted at Hawthorne Fine Art
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2020
Hawthorne Fine Art will present a retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Mary Lane McMillan. Running from October 15, 2020 to December 18, 2020, Drawn from Life: The Art of Mary Lane McMillan (1883-1976) invites viewers to rediscover a highly talented and accomplished American ...
The American Art Fair Kicks Off Its 13th Edition Online With 24 Top-Tier Galleries
ArtfixDaily / October 9th, 2020
{{image}} The American Art Fair celebrates its thirteenth year with an online only fair that runs through October 18 opens at www.theamericanartfair.com. Inaugurated in 2008, The American Art Fair is the only one that focuses on American 19th and 20th century works. This year, each of the 24 ...