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Wayne Thiebaud, Iconic California Painter, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
I think art is probably our saving grace. It can almost ignore our animal premise and spirits. It’s worth investing in as many deeply involved people as we can muster because I think that’s where our hopes lie: in giving us a life of pleasure, challenge, comfort, joyousness—all of the things that ...
Pantone Conjured Up A Fresh Color of the Year for 2022 to Signal 'Newness'
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2021
The Pantone 2022 "Color of the Year"—Very Peri—is meant to reflect transformation as humanity adapts during the COVID-19 pandemic with new ideas and technology. Very Peri is described as a "dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone" that is a mix of the "faithfulness and ...
Artist Takashi Murakami Is Dropping an Army of NFT Avatars
ArtfixDaily / December 7th, 2021
Following Miami's frenzied week of art sales and a parallel race to capitalize on the NFT craze, Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami teased more of his own NFT avatars, to be revealed this week for public sale on RTFKT. He hinted on Instagram, then followed with image preview posts ...
Broad Range of Contemporary & Antique Items In Schwenke Auctioneers December 12th Holiday Fine Estates Auction
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2021
Woodbury, CT – On Sunday, December 12th Schwenke Auctioneers offers over 485 lots of estate fine and decorative arts sourced from multiple estates and collections in the tri-state area. The 11:00 am online sale will be broadcast live on Invaluable and Live Auctioneers. Absentee and phone bidding ...
'Chihuly in the Desert' Brings Large-Scale Glass Works by the Iconic Artist to Frank Lloyd Wright's Famed Taliesin West
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2021
A new exhibition of monumental works by Dale Chihuly is now on view at one of Arizona’s most iconic landmarks and the state’s only cultural UNESCO World Heritage site, Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed home and studio, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale. A historic partnership between the revered artist and ...
'Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy' to Explore Extraordinary Fashion Displayed in European Art Galleries at San Francisco's Legion of Honor
ArtfixDaily / December 2nd, 2021
Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts ...
Monet Brings $24 Million at Beijing Sale, Topping Record for Western Artwork in China; Records Fall in Christie's $192 Million Hong Kong Sales
The Art Newspaper / December 2nd, 2021
At China Guardian’s evening sales in Beijing on Sunday, Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers sold for RMB154.1m (around $24.1m, with fees) at the first-ever Impressionist and Modern art sale of the leading Chinese auction house. The 1913 oil of Monet's beloved Giverny ...
$125 Million Gift to Met Museum Kick-Starts Modern Art Wing Transformation
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2021
On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a lead donation of $125 million, the largest capital gift in the museum's history, to overhaul its modern and contemporary art wing. Donors Oscar L. Tang, a Met trustee, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, an art historian and archaeologist, will ...
From Beeple at The Bass to Minting Your Own NFT at Art Basel, Digital Art Descends on Miami Art Week
Miami Herald / November 29th, 2021
Thanksgiving table talk about NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) is over, and the (art) game is on now in South Florida, from a day-long summit to museum talks and special offerings at multiple venues plus the suite of contemporary art fairs during Miami Art Week, through Dec. 5. A sampling of this ...
Qatar Museums to Transform Nation into Outdoor Art Museum With Over 40 Newly-Installed Public Works By Artists From Louise Bourgeois to Bruce Nauman
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2021
Qatar Museums (QM) has announced plans to transform the nation’s landscape into a vast outdoor art museum experience in celebration of Qatar’s hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 Games. Beginning now and continuing until the opening of the World Cup in November 2022, Qatar Museums will install more ...
Crypto Mogul Snaps Up $78 Million Giacometti, Records Fall in Sotheby's $676 Million Sale of Macklowe Collection
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2021
The first of two sales featuring the art collection of divorced New York billionaires Harry and Linda Macklowe brought a staggering $676.1 million at Sotheby's this week. On Monday in New York, 35 works were offered with auction house guarantees, and 21 lots had irrevocable bids. Each lot ...
'The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick' Exhibition Spotlights A California Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / November 11th, 2021
Coming this winter, the Crocker Art Museum will present The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick. Held on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s founding, this is the largest exhibition on the Candy Store Gallery to date with more than 100 multimedia works. The Candy ...
'Borderlands' Opens Major American Art Reinstallation at The Huntington
ArtfixDaily / November 14th, 2021
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is set to open “Borderlands,” a new permanent collections installation that explores a more expansive and contextualized view of American art history. Envisioning American art through the theme of borderlands, the exhibition will debut ...
'On Contested Terrain' Surveys Celebrated Photography of An-My Lê
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2021
After debuting at Carnegie Museum of Art, a new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum presents the first comprehensive survey of the work of celebrated photographer An-My Lê (American, born Vietnam, 1960). Opening December 3, 2021, in the museum’s Baker/Rowland ...
Artist Lauren Fensterstock Will Transform Chrysler Museum Gallery Into a Dark and Glittering Cosmos
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Lauren Fensterstock’s The Totality of Time Lusters the Dusk, on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art Jan. 15–June 19, 2022, invites visitors to come face to face with a dark and ominous cosmic landscape. A black comet—encrusted with a dazzling mosaic of glass, crystals, and stones including onyx ...
The Art Show Concludes Successful Edition With New Fall Dates; ADAA Appoints New President and Board Members
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
Inaugurating a new moment on the art fair calendar, The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, closed its 2021 edition yesterday with an enthusiastic response from ADAA members, collectors, museum leaders, and visitors, who ...
At The Huntington, 2021 Served as a Banner Year for American Art Acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2021
In 2021, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens acquired more than 50 important works of art by a wide range of artists from North America. The acquisitions contribute to a more expansive story of American art, adding hemispheric and global perspectives and diversity to the ...
'Companion Species' Embraces Connections Between Native and Non-Native Artists and Humans, Animals and the Earth
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
This fall, the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents Companion Species, an insightful and timely exhibition that places works of art from Native and non-Native artists in conversation with each other. Its centerpiece is Marie Watt’s vibrant textile “Companion ...
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Innovates Museum Model in World First; Displays Entire Collection by Size and Climatic Requirements
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2021
With Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a new all-access art museum and system of collection management debuts. The King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, will open the Depot this week, with all 151,000 collection items—from Vincent van Gogh paintings to a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room—on ...
Newly-Acquired 'Soundsuit' by Nick Cave Anchors Reinstalled Gallery at Honolulu Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) recently acquired a major work by legendary contemporary artist Nick Cave. “Soundsuit 8:46” (2021), a mixed-media mannequin of vintage floral textiles and sequined appliques, is a response to recent police violence against people of color, in particular the ...