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Basquiat Painting Tops London Auction

ArtfixDaily / June 26th, 2013

A signature graffiti-style painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat brought $29 million at Christie's in London on Tuesday. The untitled 1982 oilstick-on-panel sold to...

Art Dealer's Hamptons Home Keeps $40 Million List Price

Chicago Curbed / June 23rd, 2013

Art dealer Bernard Goldberg's 5,000-square-foot, shingle-style home on chic Lily Pond Lane in East Hamptons, New York, is on the market for...

Two New Exhibitions Open June 29 at Crystal Bridges

ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2013

June 29 marks the opening of two new exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A traveling exhibition, Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century American Art explores the myriad ways artists portrayed young girls: from the sentimental, ...

Expanded Hudson River School Art Trail Opens for Season

ArtfixDaily / June 18th, 2013

Search for the sublime this summer with a weekend guided hike on the Hudson River School Art Trail. Starting Saturday, you can escape in 19th-century style on a tour to a cool mountain top with exceptional scenery enjoyed by scores of painters since the 1800s.

Cadmus Drawing Leads Swann Galleries' American Art Sale

ArtfixDaily / June 17th, 2013

A male nude rendering by Paul Cadmus fetched a record price for a drawing by the artist at Swann Galleries' first stand-alone American art auction on June 13 in New York City.

Oprah Winfrey Gives $12 Million to Smithsonian's African American Museum

ArtfixDaily / June 11th, 2013

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has donated $12 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a new museum planned for Washington, DC's National Mall.

WWII Documentary Reveals Ghost Army of American Artists

/ June 10th, 2013

Now available on DVD and as a book, a new PBS documentary premiered last month about the little-known Ghost Army of American artists who helped defeat Hitler's forces in World War II.

Whitney Redesigns its Graphic Identity Prior to 2015 Grand Opening

ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2013

As the Whitney Museum approaches the opening of its new building in 2015, all aspects of programming and operations are being reconsidered.

Opportunity Knocks for American Art Collectors

New York Times / May 30th, 2013

After the skyrocketing post-war and contemporary art auctions in early May, prices in the historic American art sales last week were seemingly modest, reports the New York Times. Several lots soared, a few soured, but overall a renewed market strength was evident for American paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet...

Bill Proposed to Protect Detroit Institute of Arts Collection from Sale (UPDATE)

ArtfixDaily / May 30th, 2013

A Michigan lawmaker has proposed a bill to protect artwork held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) from being sold by the city to cover billions of dollars of debt. Detroit's $15 billion to $17 billion in bond debts...

City Leaders Consider Selling Objects from Detroit Institute of Arts

ArtfixDaily / May 29th, 2013

With an estimated debt burden of $15 billion, cash-strapped Detroit is considering selling objects from the city's renowned art museum. A debate has ensued over ownership of the multibillion dollar collection held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)...

Google Adds 20 More Museums to its Online Art Project

ArtfixDaily / May 26th, 2013

Google Art Project recently added 20 more museums to its online display of more than 40,000 total artworks from 250+ cultural organizations around the globe. Now online visitors can take a "Street View" virtual tour of the Mark Rothko galleries at...

Edward Hopper Leads $50 Million Christie's American Art Sale

ArtfixDaily / May 23rd, 2013

A panoramic view by modernist Edward Hopper was the top lot in a $50.8 million Christie's American art sale on Thursday. The auction total was the highest for the category at Christie's since 2008. The sale's star was Hopper's 1928 oil painting Blackwell's Island...

Select Lots Sizzle in Sotheby's American Art Sale

ArtfixDaily / May 22nd, 2013

Works by the likes of Rockwell and Russell helped push Sotheby's auction of American art well above its estimated total on Wednesday in New York. While 10 of 62 lots went unsold, several lots went wildly above estimate, bringing the sale total to $28 million, in excess of its high estimate of $24 ...

Tax Fraud Charges for New York Art Dealer Connected to Knoedler

ArtfixDaily / May 21st, 2013

A New York art dealer has been arrested on tax fraud charges levied by federal prosecutors on Tuesday in relation to the sale of paintings that she said were by famed Abstract Expressionists, but some turned out to be fakes.

Crystal Bridges Museum Opens Two American Genre Painting Exhibitions

ArtfixDaily / May 20th, 2013

On the heels of a hugely popular Norman Rockwell exhibition, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is showcasing two new temporary exhibitions featuring American genre painting. More than 65,000 visitors trekked to Bentonville, Arkansas, to view...

Sotheby's American Art Sale Features Museum Deaccessions

ArtfixDaily / May 20th, 2013

Sotheby’s will offer a range of works deaccessioned from the collections of four museums in its May 22 sale of American art in New York. Three works sold by the Art Institute of Chicago are led by...

Exhibition Spotlights American Modernist Oscar Bluemner

ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2013

Timed to coincide with its major exhibition, “The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913,” the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey is now presenting a revealing look at works by American modernist Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938).

Mark Rothko Arts Centre Opens in Latvia

ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2013

Mostly funded by the European Union, the Mark Rothko Arts Centre opened in Daugavpils, Latvia, on Wednesday. Six paintings from the private collection of...

Sotheby's Slated to Sell Artwork from American Folk Art Museum

ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2013

Over 200 artworks once promised to New York's American Folk Art Museum are reportedly coming up for auction at Sotheby's.