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First-Ever Exhibition on Van Gogh's Olive Grove Series Reveals His Passionate Artistic Process During a Personal Crisis
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2021
In 2021 and 2022 the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) host the first exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh’s important olive grove series, executed during his yearlong stay at the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Co-organized by the two institutions, ...
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 ...
New Exhibition is First to Fully Examine Impact of Southern European Sites on Picasso
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2021
This winter The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, offers a celebration of Pablo Picasso’s flourishing creativity in the south of France and northern Spain. Organized by The Dalí Museum in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, Picasso and the Allure of the South offers a ...
New York's ADAA Art Show Opens Next Week at Park Avenue Armory and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Members of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation’s foremost nonprofit organization of leading art dealers, return together this fall for The Art Show to showcase their dynamic programs—featuring more than 40 solo presentations, as well as an array of ...
Fine Arts Paris Returns to Carrousel du Louvre and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2021
Fine Arts Paris – the Paris-based specialist art fair dedicated to the fine arts from Antiquity to modern times – returns for a fifth edition in its emblematic venue, the Carrousel du Louvre, November 6-11. The premier destination for fine arts in Paris, the fair will once more bring together the ...
Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Makes 'Extremely Unusual' Admissions In Alleged Fraud Case, Court Reports
The Age / October 25th, 2021
Melbourne-born art dealer Andrew (Andy) Valmorbida, scion of an Italian-imports family dynasty in Australia, reportedly admitted to fraud involving multimillion dollars in artwork last May. A judgment was recently published following the civil case in the offshore tax haven of Jersey, part of the ...
Norway's Massive Munch Museum Finally Opens to the Public
ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2021
A decade in the making, a museum dedicated to one of Norway's most famous artists debuts this week. Oslo's new waterfront Munch museum—rebranded as MUNCH—is among the world's largest museums devoted to a single artist. MUNCH opens to the public on October 22, with tickets available from ...
The Ahmanson Foundation and The Huntington Form Major Art Acquisitions Partnership; Thomas Cole Masterwork Is First Purchase
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2021
In an agreement destined to have transformative results, The Ahmanson Foundation, based in Los Angeles County, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California, have formed a major art acquisitions partnership that provides significant funding to The ...
Vienna's Museums Post Nude Artworks on OnlyFans
CNN / October 17th, 2021
Vienna's tourism board is turning to adults-only platform and website OnlyFans to post museum artwork that is deemed "explicit." The move, reports CNN, is a work-around to social media censorship of art that at times flags images of nude figures or even suspends museum accounts due to art content ...
80 Kandinsky Works Ascend Through His Career in Exhibition at Guggenheim
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2021
On view now through September 5, 2022, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle. Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well ...
Global Perspectives on Surrealism Explored in Groundbreaking Exhibition at The Met
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but understanding of the movement has come primarily through a Western European orientation. The major exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism beyond boundaries of geography and ...
Man Ray: The Paris Years
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' upcoming exhibition, Man Ray: The Paris Years, will be on view in Richmond from October 30, 2021, through February 21, 2022. Organized by Dr. Michael Taylor, VMFA’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education, the exhibition includes more than ...
Madame Rêve Hotel Opens in Louvre Post Office Building This October
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
Dreaming of a future visit to the City of Light? A new 5-star hotel some eight years in the making is poised to open in the historic Louvre post office building later this month. Well-positioned in Paris' 1st arrondissement—a right bank hub of cafes, luxury shopping and world-class ...
Showcasing Varied Works From Mysterious 'Noirs' to Vibrant Pastels, 'Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon' Exhibition Debuts at Cleveland Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was known as “the prince of mysterious dreams” for creating paintings, drawings and prints that blend fantasy, literature and the subconscious. Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon celebrates the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) exceptional holdings of works by Redon, ...
In Exchange for 'The Blue Boy,' A Perennially-Popular Masterpiece From the Age of Enlightenment Will Be Loaned to The Huntington
ArtfixDaily / September 23rd, 2021
One of the great masterpieces from the Age of Enlightenment, Joseph Wright of Derby’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) will be shown at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California, from Feb. 12 through May 23, 2022, in an ...
Fondation Beyeler Exhibition Explores Shifts in Portraiture With Works by These 9 Women Artists
ArtfixDaily / September 20th, 2021
“CLOSE-UP” brings together nine women artists whose work shares a focus on the depiction of the human figure in the form of portraits and self-portraits, and who occupy prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. The exhibition, on view now through January 2 ...
Dallas Museum of Art Presents 'Point, Line, Plane' Honoring Gift of Works on Paper
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2021
Opening September 26 at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), a new exhibition honors a remarkable gift from the estate of distinguished scholar William B. Jordan and his husband, Robert Dean Brownlee. Celebrating the establishment of the Museum’s Works on Paper Department, Point, Line, Plane: The ...
Frist Art Museum Organizes First Major Exhibition in the U.S. Devoted to Medieval Art in Bologna
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2021
In Nashville, the Frist Art Museum presents Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on medieval art made in the prosperous northern Italian city of Bologna. Conceived and organized by Frist Art Museum senior curator Trinita ...
Last Weeks to Catch Sublime Views in 'Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway' at The Clark; Catalogue Available
ArtfixDaily / September 1st, 2021
The Clark Art Institute is presenting the first North American museum exhibition focused on the Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), who deftly wove tradition and innovation into his artistic production. Astrup is considered one of Norway’s most important artists, yet he is largely ...
New Exhibition Explores Impressionism in Russia
ArtfixDaily / August 29th, 2021
A current exhibition at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, is dedicated to the reception of French painting in Russia, a subject that has received little attention to date. With over eighty works, the show (August 28, 2021 – January 9, 2022) demonstrates the extent of their international ...