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Media Scion James Murdoch's Company Takes Stake in Art Basel Owner
Hollywood Reporter / August 3rd, 2020
Days after resigning from News Corp.'s board of directors, James Murdoch has been approved to join the board of MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel and its art fair platforms. Murdoch's Lupa Systems was approved by the MCH Group board of directors on Aug. 3 to allow the investment and ...
Basquiat Sells For Record In-App Price of $10.8 Million on Loïc Gouzer's Fair Warning
High Snobiety / August 2nd, 2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Untitled brought $10.8 million on Loïc Gouzer's new Fair Warning app last Thursday. The price is a world record for an in-app purchase. The oil stick on paper was estimated to sell for between $8 million to $12 million. According to the New York Times, the work had ...
A New Kind of Virtual Online Museum of Art to Debut This Summer
Hypebeast / August 2nd, 2020
The Virtual Online Museum of Art plans to be the world’s first fully interactive virtual museum. Opening online on August 14, VOMA will present curated exhibitions featuring seminal works from major institutions around the world, alongside works by contemporary artists and ...
'Sensational' Claim: Some Paintings By Gauguin Are Forgeries, Commissioned By His Art Dealer
Washington Post / July 30th, 2020
Beset by illness and injury, post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin's life was coming to an end in 1903. Due to his ill health, while he was holed up in the remote French Polynesian islands of Marquesas, Gauguin was not likely to have created paintings dated to that year, contends French-born, ...
Museum of the American Revolution Set to Reopen Sept. 3; Special Exhibition 'When Women Lost the Vote' to Open Oct. 2
ArtfixDaily / July 29th, 2020
The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is scheduled to reopen to the general public on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, with special access for Museum Members beginning Thursday, August 20. Please check the Museum’s website for the most up-to-date hours and information for visitors. The ...
The Monet Show Must Go On — With an Array of Online Features From MFA Boston
ArtfixDaily / July 28th, 2020
Nineteenth-century Bostonians were on the cutting edge of collecting when the innovative works of French Impressionists burst on the scene. One of the largest holdings of Claude Monet’s (1840–1926) work outside France, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) acquired dozens of his Impressionist ...
House Votes For a National Latino Museum to Be Part of Smithsonian
NBC News / July 27th, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Monday to approve legislation that would create a national Latino museum in the nation’s capital. The initiative had wide bipartisan support and passed unanimously by voice vote, reports NBC News. "It's time for Latinos to see our contributions, our ...
Social Media Sensation 'Getty Museum Challenge' Will Be A Book
ArtfixDaily / July 27th, 2020
Getty Publications has announced a new book celebrating people's creativity and joy sparked by the Getty Museum Challenge — with all profits going to charity. Van Gogh’s Starry Night made out of spaghetti? Cat with a Pearl Earring? Frida Kahlo self-portraits with pets and toilet paper? ...
Upcoming Exhibition to Shed Light On African Modernism in America
ArtfixDaily / July 24th, 2020
A traveling exhibition planned for late 2022 will illuminate African Modernism in America, 1947–1967. The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, which will be the first venue. African Modernism in America, 1947–1967 is the ...
Take an Online Tour of 'Fantastic Women' to Explore Works by the Hidden Heroines of Surrealism
ArtfixDaily / July 26th, 2020
Goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, child-woman or wonderful dream creature – in various guises, women were the central subject of male Surrealist fantasies. Women artists initially found their way into the circle surrounding André Breton, the founder of the Surrealist group, as companions or ...
Art Nouveau Ceramics, Scheherazade in Gilded Age Art and an Artist's White House Coming Up at the Crocker
ArtfixDaily / July 25th, 2020
While the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Calif., is currently closed and preparing to reopen, a suite of new summer exhibitions await visitors. A major exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of California artist Wayne Thiebaud is also planned for the fall. "Al Farrow: The White House" is ...
One-Third of U.S. Arts Institutions May Close This Year; PPP Loans Lagged Behind the Billions in Losses
ArtfixDaily / July 23rd, 2020
A survey released by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) this week relayed a bleak outlook for U.S. arts institutions during ongoing pandemic-produced shutdowns: one-third expect that they could close completely this year. From responses taken from 760 museum directors, 33 percent ...
New York City Wants Locals to Get Out and Enjoy Free Public Art Programs With a New Digital Resource
ArtfixDaily / July 23rd, 2020
NYC & Company, the official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau for the five boroughs of New York City, has just launched All In NYC: Public Art Edition, showcasing dozens of free, public art programs across the City for New Yorkers now, and eventually ...
Police Discover Roman Antiquities in a Seafood Store
CNN / July 23rd, 2020
A routine inspection of fish storage facilities yielded a surprising find for police in Spain. A cache of 13 Roman amphorae, along with a metal anchor from the 18th century, were found with fish products at a store in Alicante. The store owners are now under investigation for possessing ...
UPDATE: Kidnapped German Art Curator Hella Mewis Is Rescued In Iraq
Deutsche Welle / July 21st, 2020
(Update 7/24/20) An Iraqi security official cited by the Associated Press said German art curator Hella Mewis was released in a security operation outside Baghdad. A German art curator was kidnapped on Monday night by unidentified miltants in Baghdad, according to multiple reports. ...
6 Leading Artists Will Present Work for the 2nd Edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center
ArtfixDaily / July 21st, 2020
Frieze and Tishman Speyer have announced a special exhibition of site-specific works by six renowned artists, which will comprise the second year of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center. Usually held in the spring as part of the wider programming of Frieze New York, Frieze Sculpture at ...
Multiple Allegations Swirl Around Director of Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit News / July 20th, 2020
Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, is at the center of a host of accusations — a charge of nepotism involving the loans of artwork, and allegations regarding his management style, hiring practices and racial mistreatment of current and former staffers, reports the ...
25 Chinese and American Artists Exhibited Together in 'Matter + Spirit'
ArtfixDaily / July 17th, 2020
A new online exhibition showcases contemporary Chinese and American artists at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Montecito, Calif. Matter + Spirit: A Chinese/American Exhibition (through August 15) showcases the work of 25 artists involved in a cross-cultural program promoting creative ...
See How Robert Reich Wove Thomas Cole Paintings Into A Final Class For 2020 UC Berkeley Graduates
ArtfixDaily / July 17th, 2020
"You're going to have to design the hoops you jump through," former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tells his final class in the last semester at UC Berkeley. He later asks the 2020 graduates to consider: "The question is when you get to this stage what do you want, what do you want to look back ...
A Redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Stirs Controversy
New York Times / July 18th, 2020
The Hirshhorn museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, announced a redesign of its sculpture garden in 2019, noting that the garden needed infrastructure repairs, better accessibility and refreshed galleries. Japanese artist and architect Horishi Sugimoto was enlisted to revitalize the ...