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UBS Global Art Market Report Reveals the Mid-Year Data For Gallery Sector
Art Basel / September 9th, 2020
Art Basel has released the mid-year UBS Global Art Market Report, written in partnership with economist Dr. Clare McAndrew, with data relating both the positive and negative impacts of the global health crisis on the art market. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gallery Sector report surveyed 795 ...
Discover Works By Women Artists, Plus Fantastic Frames and Much More With London Art Week's Digital Platform In October
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2020
During October 2020 London Art Week’s new Digital platform at www.londonartweek.co.uk will present ‘Art History in Focus’, a series of themed erudite and enlightening discourses online and exhibitions in galleries. In the spotlight will be the work of significant women artists of the past 400 ...
Everyone is Invited to the New VOMA — the Virtual Online Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / September 6th, 2020
VOMA, the Virtual Online Museum of Art, has opened its virtual doors. With an online debut that attracted enough virtual visits to have "obliterated our servers," says British artist and VOMA founder Stuart Semple, the museum has two exhibitions now open to browse. “I believe art should be for ...
Virginia Jaramillo's Curvilinear Paintings a Highlight of the Menil's Fall Reopening
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2020
The Menil Collection will reopen its main building and the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston on Saturday, September 12. In the main building galleries, visitors will be greeted with a fresh installation of works by John Chamberlain, Mary Corse, Dan Flavin, Barkley Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, ...
Chrysler Museum's Exhibition 'Come Together, Right Now' Focuses on Timely Themes
ArtfixDaily / September 2nd, 2020
This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, encourages everyone to consider the bonds between us with Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering. On view Oct. 11, 2020–Jan. 3, 2021 at the museum and in outdoor locations in Norfolk, the exhibition will feature more than ...
What Can Museums Expect When They Are Expecting to Reopen?
Colleen Dilenschneider / September 1st, 2020
Museums across the U.S. are slowly reopening as local, state and Centers for Disease Control guidelines allow. After nearly six months of closures due to the pandemic, cultural institutions are navigating new territory with health precautions in place and other needed controls. Since reopening ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
Museums Battle on Social Media Over Best Cats, Mystery Objects and Derrières in Art
ArtfixDaily / July 8th, 2020
Museums are stepping up on social media with fierce curator's battles over whose collection holds the #BestCat, #MysteryObject and #BestMuseumBum—for figures in art boasting backside—human or animal, apparently. Yorkshire Museum in the U.K. kicked off the near-weekly #CuratorBattle themes, ...
Some Parts of Arts Industry Got Multimillions in PPP Loans
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2020
A slice of the $521 billion in government economic relief meant for small businesses in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic went to an array of museums, art galleries, auction houses, art media, institutions, foundations, artists and others. A list of loans of $150,000 and above was made ...
Massachusetts Museums Are Readying to Reopen; Find Fresh Exhibitions and Art Walks in The Berkshires
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2020
The three largest museums in the Berkshires—the Clark Art Institute, MASS MoCA and the Norman Rockwell Museum—plan to reopen to visitors over the July 11–12 weekend, following Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s announcement permitting museums and other cultural organizations to resume ...
U.K. Provides Nearly $2 Billion For Struggling Arts Sector
The Hollywood Reporter / July 6th, 2020
The British government announced Sunday a £1.57 billion ($1.96 billion) rescue package for the U.K.'s arts and culture sector after months of pandemic shutdowns, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The relief includes £880 million ($1 billion) in grants for the financial year to April 2021, ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed Week of June 29, Returns July 6
ArtfixDaily / June 27th, 2020
ARTFIXdaily will be closed the week of June 29. Subscriber e-newsletter service will resume July 6.
New Art Museum at Penn State to Open in 2023 With Palmer Name Retained
ArtfixDaily / June 15th, 2020
A proposal to name a planned new art museum at University Park, in Pennsylvania, in honor of the late Barbara and James Palmer was approved in May by the Penn State Board of Trustees. Penn State President Eric J. Barron said the landmark new building will be named to honor the original donors ...