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Step Into the Cool, Calm Post-Impressionism of Paul Jean Martel in Palos Verde Art Center's Upcoming Online Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2020
In Belgium, as we grew up, we learned to see things through the dampness of an atmosphere heavily laden with humidity and sun. We Flemish people have always painted the colour values in our air - in that respect I believe I follow the Flemish tradition. - Paul Jean Martel California's ...
Mick Jagger Plays a Diabolical Art Dealer in Thriller 'The Burnt Orange Heresy'
New York Times / August 23rd, 2020
With the lovely mist of Lake Como as a backdrop comes a film drama that weaves together an unsettling tale involving an art dealer, critic, traveler and artist with less than transparent motives. Set in Northern Italy, the 2020 film The Burnt Orange Heresy has rock icon Mick Jagger ...
Take a Deep Dive Into The Enhanced Ghent Altarpiece Website For A View of The Restored Lamb That's Mesmerized Many
ArtfixDaily / August 20th, 2020
The Getty and Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage have greatly enhanced the popular Ghent Altarpiece website. The website Closer to Van Eyck offers a 100 billion-pixel view of the world-famous altarpiece, including the restored The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, to be enjoyed from home. (When ...
A Traveling Retrospective, Online Content and Rich Publication Will Mark 100th Birthday of Artist Wayne Thiebaud—And Yes, There Will Be Cake (Paintings)
ArtfixDaily / August 20th, 2020
“It’s just very, very familiar. They’re mostly painted from memory, from memories of bakeries and restaurants — there’s a lot of yearning.” —Wayne Thiebaud The Crocker Art Museum will present Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory retrospective ...
Wildfire Consumes Historic Structures in California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park
Mercury News / August 20th, 2020
{{image}} {{image}} A devastating wildfire swept through California's oldest state park on Tuesday night setting historic buildings ablaze along with much of the iconic site which hosts more than 1 million visitors per year. A California Historical Landmark established in 1902, Big Basin ...
New Work by 100 Women Artists For Centennial of 19th Amendment Launches in Digital Portal
ArtfixDaily / August 19th, 2020
Park Avenue Armory in New York has launched its interactive digital portal that allows audiences to explore new commissions by 100 women artists and cultural creators, including Carrie Mae Weems, Toshi Reagon, Renee Cox, Staceyann Chin, Zoë Buckman, and more. Unveiled on August 18—the date of the ...
Begun as a WPA Art Center, Oklahoma City Museum of Art Marks 75 Years With Nearly 300 New Acquisitions and 3 Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / August 19th, 2020
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) celebrates its 75th anniversary year with an exciting slate of exhibitions including “Shared Lives, Distant Places: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,” “Beaux Arts at 75” and “Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies.” In honor of ...
From Shepard Fairey to the Late Luchita Hurtado, Leading Artists Designed Bandanas For a Cause in This eBay Fundraiser
eBay / August 18th, 2020
Top artists have collaborated with eBay's charity arm to offer an array of striking bandanas in support of nonprofit organizations working to increase voter turnout in the upcoming U.S. elections. The fundraiser, "Artists Band Together," benefits efforts in nonpartisan voter registration and ...
Find Face Masks From Museum Shops Worth Wrapping Around Your Head
ArtfixDaily / August 18th, 2020
Shopping online is one way to support museums across the U.S. during the current tough times brought on by coronavirus closures. Many museum shops are selling essential items like reusable face masks — in artful cloth fabrics and at times emblazoned with collection artworks — and oftentimes these ...
Larry Gagosian Leases LA's Marciano Art Foundation Building
Variety / August 17th, 2020
International art dealer Larry Gagosian will occupy part of the now defunct Marciano Art Foundation building in Los Angeles, reports Variety. The gallerist will take 13,000-square-feet for programming in the first-floor Grand Theater Gallery beginning in January of 2021. Designed by artist ...
New York City Museums Get Green Light to Open in Late August
ArtfixDaily / August 15th, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted on Friday that New York City's museums and cultural institutions can welcome visitors starting on August 24. City officials have also approved the cultural reopening. Cuomo wrote that 25 percent occupancy, a timed ticket requirement and pre-set staggered ...
Forever Stamps Featuring Ruth Asawa Sculptures Are Now Available From USPS
ArtfixDaily / August 14th, 2020
The United States Postal Service has released its strikingly artistic 2020 Forever stamp pane featuring the undulating mesh wire sculptures of pioneering Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Each pane includes twenty 55-cent stamps, with two each of 10 designs, along with a ...
Ahead: ARTFIXdaily Closed Week of August 9; The Pollinator Pavilion Opens at Thomas Cole Site
ArtfixDaily / August 6th, 2020
ARTFIXdaily e-newsletter service will be closed next week and will resume on August 17. This Friday, August 7, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, unveils The Pollinator Pavilion, a new public artwork by internationally renowned artists Mark Dion and Dana ...
New Round of Layoffs Hit U.S. Museums; Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Vote to Unionize
ArtfixDaily / August 6th, 2020
After months of coronavirus impacts have battered museums' finances, art institutions across the U.S. have announced a fresh round of large-scale layoffs this week. Earlier layoffs and furloughs began in late March and April, and hit again in June resulting in steep job losses at American ...
Got Old House? A Live Stream Symposium Will Cover Historic Painted Wall Conservation
ArtfixDaily / August 6th, 2020
"Conserving Our Painted Past" Live Stream Symposium Oct. 26-28, 2020, 1:00 pm-4:30 pm REGISTRATION NOW OPEN AT www.pwpcenter.org/symposium Distemper paint on historic painted plaster is fragile and can be damaged in a variety of ways. Vulnerable to moisture, it dissolves when ...
Shaker Museum Taps Selldorf Architects for New $15 Million Facility
ArtfixDaily / August 5th, 2020
Shaker Museum has selected Selldorf Architects to create its new permanent facility in downtown Chatham, New York, to exhibit its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 pieces of Shaker material culture and accompanying archives. Like the objects themselves, the physical building will ...
Early American Carousel Sculptures Find New Home at the Crocker
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2020
The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., has welcomed to its collection six hand-carved carousel animal sculptures by top makers from the golden age of carousels. The menagerie includes a deer, giraffe, horse, goat, bear, and greyhound, and is a generous gift from the renowned collection of ...
New Commissions by 100 Women Marking Centennial of 19th Amendment Debut Online August 18
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2020
100 Women Artists and Cultural Creators Respond to Centennial of the 19th Amendment and 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in America in the Context of COVID and Black Lives Matter On August 18, marking the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Park Avenue Armory and lead partner ...
Police Identify Tourist Who Broke Toes Off Canova Sculpture During Selfie
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2020
A museum visitor who leaned across and damaged a reclining sculpture by Antonio Canova has been tracked down by police in Italy. The 50-year-old man from Austria was identified by surveillance video and from registration measures implemented during the COVID-19 crisis. While viewing Canova's ...
Take a Video Tour of 'We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South'
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2020
Take a video tour of We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South on view to September 6, 2020, at Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK). This first exhibition of its kind in the UK showcases the work of artists and makers from Alabama and surrounding states, revealing a little-known ...