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Kara Walker Named WSJ Magazine's Art Innovator of the Year

WSJ Magazine / November 6th, 2014

Artist Kara Walker -- "who for two decades has been fearlessly confronting attitudes toward race, women and sexuality" with work that has been displayed all over the world -- was named WSJ Magazine's Art Innovator of the Year.

U.S. Army Readies to Buy Trove of World War I Artworks

Defense News / October 22nd, 2014

The U.S. Army has petitioned for $600,000 to acquire a collection of 23 artworks created at the battlefronts of World War I. The rare group of paintings are by...

France on Fire with Art Openings This Week

France 24 / October 21st, 2014

Modern and contemporary art gets a bigger than usual spotlight this week in Paris. French president Francois Hollande, fashion editor Anna Wintour and Louis Vuitton head honcho Bernard Arnault...

George Lucas Opens Up About Museum Plans

Chicago Tribune / October 20th, 2014

“The great thing about narrative art, it's designed for the people,” said George Lucas. “It was always designed for the people. It's not an elitist art at all.”

German Museum Directors Protest Sale of Warhol's Presley and Brando

Artlyst / October 20th, 2014

Not everyone is on board with German casino conglomerate WestSpiel's consignment of two seminal 1960s works by Andy Warhol to Christie's November sale in New York. "Triple Elvis" (1963) and "Four Marlon" (1966) could together fetch up to $140 million...

Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco Entices Techies to Art Collecting

ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2014

This year has been rife with attempts to move the Silicon Valley tech elite into high-level art collecting. For the Bay Area's latest art-selling infiltration, techies, tastemakers, and true collectors turned out...

Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco Entices Techies to Art Collecting

ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2014

This year has been rife with attempts to move the Silicon Valley tech elite into high-level art collecting. For the Bay Area's latest art-selling infiltration, techies, tastemakers, and true collectors turned out...

Whitney Studio Designated "National Treasure" by National Trust of Historic Preservation

Blog PreservationNation / October 10th, 2014

In the early 20th century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney spurned a life as a privileged socialite to make her mark as a noted sculptor, arts patron, and cultivator of audiences for American artists at her New York City studio.

New Details Emerge from 'Document Dump' in Knoedler Case

Art Newspaper / October 8th, 2014

A "document dump" of legal filings and exhibits has made new information public in the multimillion-dollar art-forgery scandal surrounding New York's Knoedler gallery.

Vermont Artist Charlie Hunter Takes on the State's Gritty Side

VT Digger / September 29th, 2014

Paintings of Vermont often evoke a romanticized vision of red barns, rolling hills and vibrant foliage or sparkling snow. Artist Charlie Hunter creates the opposite, in what he describes as “murky paintings of decaying American infrastructure"...

Grant Wood Sketchbook Returned to Iowa Museum

ConnectTriStates / September 28th, 2014

Grant Wood's sketchbook has been returned to an Iowa museum some 50 years after it went missing.

Delaware Art Museum Says It Will Use Investment Funds for Debt

Delaware Online / September 25th, 2014

Winslow Homer's "Milking Time" will stay at the Delaware Art Museum, at least for now. Museum officials said Wednesday that...

NYC Art Dealer Ira Spanierman Announces Retirement, Gallery Closure

ArtfixDaily / September 25th, 2014

New York City art dealer Ira Spanierman, a fixture in the American art gallery scene, has announced his retirement after 60 years in the business.

Getty Posts Knoedler Archives Online

Getty Blog / September 24th, 2014

Gilded Age industrialist and museum founder Henry Clay Frick picked up iconic works by Bellini, Vermeer and Goya, among others, from Knoedler Gallery. Who else bought what...

Works from Cy Twombly's Personal Collection at Auction

New York Times / September 22nd, 2014

Christie's will be offering a group of works from the Twombly Foundation on Nov. 12 and 13. None are by the famed artist, rather they are pieces collected...

Couple Sues Arizona Art Gallery Over Sold Warhol

Courthouse News / September 18th, 2014

A couple says a Scottsdale art gallery that was storing their Andy Warhol work sold it without their permission.

Levis Fine Ar Presents 'Maurice Golubov: Ahead of Time'

ArtfixDaily / September 17th, 2014

Levis Fine Art will present the exhibition 'Maurice Golubov: Ahead of Time,' from Sept. 18 to Oct. 15, 2014, in New York City.

Jackson Hole Art Auction Fetches Record $10M

Jackson Hole News / September 15th, 2014

The annual Jackson Hole Art Auction brought a record-setting $10 million on Saturday in Wyoming.

Bill Cosby Art Collection to Go View at Smithsonian

ArtfixDaily / September 15th, 2014

Comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, will showcase their collection of African American art for the first time publicly at the Smithsonian this fall.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to Sell Three Works from Collection

Santa Fe New Mexican / September 12th, 2014

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has announced that it is selling three works by the artist, including one of her iconic flower paintings...