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Feast Your Eyes On Monet's Birthday Cake
ArtfixDaily / September 12th, 2020
Looking for layers and layers of sugary comfort right now? For art's sake, we tried making Claude Monet's favorite birthday cake, Le Gâteau Vert. This lemony pistachio layer cake is wrapped in vibrant green fondant icing colored with spinach (don't tell the kids), and was featured as the ...
'The Blue Boy' Is Back — Take a Look at Gainsborough's Newly Restored Masterpiece
ArtfixDaily / September 10th, 2020
One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy (ca. 1770) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), has been reinstalled in the Thornton Portrait Gallery and will be on view for visitors when the Huntington Art Gallery is allowed to ...
UBS Global Art Market Report Reveals the Mid-Year Data For Gallery Sector
Art Basel / September 9th, 2020
Art Basel has released the mid-year UBS Global Art Market Report, written in partnership with economist Dr. Clare McAndrew, with data relating both the positive and negative impacts of the global health crisis on the art market. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gallery Sector report surveyed 795 ...
Preview 'Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2020
Cut, folded, torn, glued, burned or embossed, paper becomes a transformational art medium in Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from October 8, 2020 through January 18, 2021. Presenting the work of 22 emerging and underrepresented ...
Discover Works By Women Artists, Plus Fantastic Frames and Much More With London Art Week's Digital Platform In October
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2020
During October 2020 London Art Week’s new Digital platform at www.londonartweek.co.uk will present ‘Art History in Focus’, a series of themed erudite and enlightening discourses online and exhibitions in galleries. In the spotlight will be the work of significant women artists of the past 400 ...
Everyone is Invited to the New VOMA — the Virtual Online Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / September 6th, 2020
VOMA, the Virtual Online Museum of Art, has opened its virtual doors. With an online debut that attracted enough virtual visits to have "obliterated our servers," says British artist and VOMA founder Stuart Semple, the museum has two exhibitions now open to browse. “I believe art should be for ...
Virginia Jaramillo's Curvilinear Paintings a Highlight of the Menil's Fall Reopening
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2020
The Menil Collection will reopen its main building and the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston on Saturday, September 12. In the main building galleries, visitors will be greeted with a fresh installation of works by John Chamberlain, Mary Corse, Dan Flavin, Barkley Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, ...
See Inside Charles Woodbury's Recreated Studio as the Ogunquit Art Colony Gets Spotlighted During Maine Bicentennial
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2020
To mark the state of Maine’s bicentennial year, Ogunquit Museum of American Art is showcasing locally-active artists who have played significant roles as educators and founders of Maine’s influential visual and cultural heritage. The View From Narrow Cove: Bicentennial Oqunquit ...
Chrysler Museum's Exhibition 'Come Together, Right Now' Focuses on Timely Themes
ArtfixDaily / September 2nd, 2020
This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, encourages everyone to consider the bonds between us with Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering. On view Oct. 11, 2020–Jan. 3, 2021 at the museum and in outdoor locations in Norfolk, the exhibition will feature more than ...
What Can Museums Expect When They Are Expecting to Reopen?
Colleen Dilenschneider / September 1st, 2020
Museums across the U.S. are slowly reopening as local, state and Centers for Disease Control guidelines allow. After nearly six months of closures due to the pandemic, cultural institutions are navigating new territory with health precautions in place and other needed controls. Since reopening ...
Preview '2020 Vision' Highlights As the Baltimore Museum of Art Readies to Reopen in September
ArtfixDaily / August 27th, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced that it will begin a phased reopening on September 16, with the intention of having all of its galleries and gathering spaces accessible to visitors by September 30, 2020. For visitor hours, guidelines and updates, visit the museum website. Upon ...
Discover the Work of Pioneering Modernist Artist Everett Spruce in New Exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum
ArtfixDaily / August 27th, 2020
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) now presents Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce, the first exhibition in nearly 30 years to highlight the pioneering and inventive career of Texas artist Everett Spruce (1908–2002). Featuring nearly 50 works from private and ...
Dutch Museum Reports Frans Has Painting 'Two Laughing Boys' Stolen For a Third Time
Reuters / New York Times / August 27th, 2020
A work by Dutch Golden-Age master Frans Hals was stolen in the pre-dawn hours from a small museum in the Netherlands on Thursday, police said, according to reports. Dating from 1626, Hals' "Two Laughing Boys With a Mug of Beer" is now missing from the Hofje van Aerden Museum, located near ...
UK's Dyson Family to Open Art Gallery Showcasing Their Stellar Collection
Wallpaper / August 26th, 2020
The UK's bagless vacuum cleaner inventor and billionaire James Dyson, and his wife Deirdre, are planning to open an art gallery at their historic property in the Cotswolds. The new space will feature the Dyson's major collection of modern and contemporary artworks by the likes of David Hockney, ...
Whitney Museum Cancels Exhibition After Criticism Mounts Online
Vulture / August 26th, 2020
The Whitney Museum of American Art canceled the upcoming exhibition “Collective Actions: Artist Interventions in a Time of Change” after protests over the mode of acquisition of works to be shown. Scheduled to open on Sept. 17, the exhibit was to showcase prints, photographs, posters, and ...
Cultural Organizations Worldwide Pledge Support to Beirut Following Blast Damage to Museums and Heritage Sites
ArchPaper / August 25th, 2020
International cultural organizations have expressed support for Beirut following blasts that extensively damaged historic buildings, cultural sites and museums in the Lebanese capital on August 4. Thousands of buildings, including hundreds in the city’s historic districts, were damaged. Over ...
'Forward Into Light': See Museums, Libraries and Civic Buildings Illuminated Nationwide To Celebrate Women’s Suffrage Centennial — And Join In
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2020
A national initiative celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage has cultural institutions, national park sites and civic buildings illuminating their façades in purple and gold lights, the official colors of the suffrage movement, starting on Women's Equality Day (August 26). ...
New Book Reveals Why The Influence of Salvador Dalí Endures in Fashion, Literature and Art
ArtfixDaily / August 24th, 2020
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.” - Salvador Dalí Noted art historians Dr. Christopher Heath Brown and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts unravel the meaning of Dalí’s mysterious quote in their new book, THE DALÍ LEGACY: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art ...
Notre Dame VR Experience Offers an Immersive View Before and After the Fire
T+L / August 24th, 2020
FlyView, a virtual reality experience in Paris, now offers an immersive inside/outside look at Notre Dame cathedral before and after the April 2019 fire. “Rebuilding Notre Dame" is a 35-minute tour providing viewers with glorious details of architectural elements from the spire, gargoyles and ...
In T Magazine: 'America’s Monuments, Reimagined for a More Just Future'
New York Times / August 24th, 2020
With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, for its forthcoming Fall Women’s Fashion issue, the New York Times Style Magazine T asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of reckoning: “...T asked five artists, including ...