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Vast Trove of Andrew Wyeth Artworks—Many Unseen by the Public—Enter Into New Collections Sharing Agreement
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2022
Some 7,000 works by Andrew Wyeth, only 15 percent of which have been previously exhibited, will be made accessible for exhibition, scholarship and loans through a new partnership, notes the New York Times. The Wyeth Foundation for American Art has established a collection-sharing arrangement ...
Takashi Murakami, NFT Inventors and MoMA Among Webby Award Winners
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2022
The 26th annual Webby Awards, which recognize “excellence on the Internet,” took a new turn this year with a nod to NFT art. Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami was a winner "for his lifelong career creating experimental art, and for bringing his talents to the new frontier of NFT art, notably ...
Glimpse Figurative Art 'Redefined' in This Comprehensive Paula Rego Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
The prestigious Venice Biennale, on view now through November 27, features a preponderance of female artists in Cecilia Alemani's The Milk of Dreams central exhibition—among them, a rising star artist, the 87-year-old Paula Rego whose work is concurrently on view at Victoria Miro’s Venice gallery ...
Heatherwick Studios' Massive Tree Sculpture—Made With Living Trees—Will Soar Above Buckingham Palace in June
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
To celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee weekend, a giant tree sculpture will appear outside Buckingham Palace in London this June. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the 69-foot "Tree of Trees" will feature 350 indigenous British trees set in aluminum pots on a steel frame. The project pays ...
This Artist's House For Sale in the Hills of Tuscany Is a Draw
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
The sea is black, you are transparent, the sky is black you are deep, ciao - excerpt of a note from Lucio Fontana to Diana Baylon In the hills above Florence, a house-museum in which Abstract Expressionist artist Diana Baylon (1920-2013) lived and worked is for sale. Baylon set up her Tuscan ...
Bruce Museum to Receive Promised Gift of a Major Collection of European and American Art
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
The identities of the collectors of this transformative gift of 70 artworks—which includes Edward Hopper’s seminal final painting Two Comedians (1966)—have been guessed at, but not revealed, according to ARTnews. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., announced the promised gift of a major ...
First Retrospective of Photographer and Conceptual Artist Rosamond Purcell to Open at Addison Gallery of American Art
ArtfixDaily / April 4th, 2022
“What kind of genius is Rosamond Purcell? Is she an artist? A scholar? A documentarian? A living cabinet of wonders? Her originality defies category…” — Jonathan Safran Foer Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside, the first retrospective of the artist’s work, which transcends the ...
Ohio Museum Deaccessions Artworks That Could Raise Over $60 Million at Auction
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
In an effort to bolster its acquisition fund to diversify collections, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Toledo, Ohio, will offer up for sale three major Impressionist paintings expected to fetch up to $64 million in Sotheby's Modern Evening sale on May 17. The deaccessions include Nu ...
Sweeping Survey 'Diego Rivera's America' Debuts at SFMOMA This Summer
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Diego Rivera’s America, the most in-depth examination of the artist’s work in over two decades. Diego Rivera’s America brings together more than 150 of Rivera’s paintings, frescos and drawings—as well as three ...
Top Awards at Venice Biennale Go to Sonia Boyce, Simone Leigh in Historic Firsts
ArtfixDaily / April 23rd, 2022
The 59th Venice Biennale's top awards went to two Black female artists — Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh — in a history-making ceremony on April 23. Each is the first Black woman to represent her country at the biannual event, and the awards are the first-ever for a Black woman artist in the ...
At Venice Biennale 2022, A Range From Simone Leigh's Powerful US Pavilion to a Live Address From the President of Ukraine
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2022
The 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia and its programs are underway (April 23 to November 27, 2022) with a host of noteworthy firsts for the world's premier contemporary art event. For the first time, the Biennale has a robust app with maps for in-person navigating and ...
Three Major Institutions Collaborate on First Major Exhibition Devoted to Matisse in the 1930s
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2022
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, will present the first exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), one of the giants of twentieth-century art. Opening ...
Finland Seizes $46 Million in Art Returning to Russia; Paris Mayor Calls for 'Freezing' Morozov Collection
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
Finland seized artwork en route to Russia in accordance with sanctions imposed by the European Union over Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine. The haul of paintings and sculptures is valued at around 42 million euros ($46 million), the agency said. The artwork was on loan from Russia to ...
'Designing Motherhood' Delves Into Material Culture of Birth at MassArt Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) announces its next exhibition, Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, on view June 11 - December 18, 2022. Organized by a curatorial team that includes design historians, birth advocates, and medical and midwifery history experts, Designing ...
Rockefeller Center Installs 193 Art Flags Crowd-Sourced For Exhibition 'Only One Earth'
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
Rockefeller Center has collaborated with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate Museum for its third annual The Flag Project. Each spring, this crowd-sourced art exhibition invites the public to submit art for consideration to be displayed on one of the 193 flagpoles that ...
Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism Opens at The Westmoreland in May
ArtfixDaily / April 5th, 2022
Opening Sunday, May 29 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in Greensburg, Penn., the exhibition Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism brings together works of art separated by almost a century to consider how they are bound together by the shared experience of living and working ...
In 'Smoke' Exhibition, Jason Jacques Gallery Partners with the Last Prisoner Project
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
Jason Jacques Gallery will present an upcoming exhibition in partnership with the Last Prisoner Project. Titled SMOKE, the exhibition centers on a 19th century smoking set made by the French jeweler Boucheron. The piece is a beautiful, somewhat rarefied, highly decorative, and yet functional ...
Objects From Actress Betty White's Estate to take Transatlantic Tour on Queen Mary 2 Cruise Ahead of Auction
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
Worldwide Exhibition Preview of Collection to Set Sail on Exclusive Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Voyage Presented by Julien’s Auctions and Cunard August 5th-12th Julien’s Auctions, known as the auction house to the stars, will present Property from the Life and Career of Betty White, ...
Christie’s Will Auction The Famed Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann heads to Christie's this May in New York City. Works from the collection will be sold across two live sales at Rockefeller Plaza during the Spring Marquee Week, beginning with a single-owner evening sale on Monday, May 9, 2022. While a total presale ...
An Olfactory Exhibition at the Prado Invites Visitors to Smell the Rubens and Brueghel
ArtfixDaily / April 5th, 2022
Jasmine, ambergris, orange blossom...visitors can breathe in the heady scents represented in a 17th-century garden scene painting in this fresh exhibition. On display until July 3 at the Prado in Madrid, The Sense of Smell, a painting by Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens, is the focus ...