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Amon Carter Acquires More Than 240 Works from Collection of Finis Welch
ArtfixDaily / August 11th, 2021
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) has announced the acquisition of more than 240 photographs and works on paper that significantly expand the Museum's renowned photography and works on paper holdings. A bequest from the estate of Texas economist, entrepreneur, and collector ...
Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900
ArtfixDaily / August 10th, 2021
In 1889, a small group of avant-garde artists in Paris formed a brotherhood to promote a radical new direction in art. Adopting the name Nabis—Hebrew for “prophets”—they shifted away from the Impressionist style, which sought to capture the fleeting effects of nature, and instead aimed to depict ...
5 Highlights Coming Up at TEFAF Online This September
ArtfixDaily / August 8th, 2021
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), has revealed a special preview of works that will appear at the second iteration of TEFAF Online, running September 9-13, 2021 with an invitation-only preview on September 8, 2021. This “First Look” provides a glimpse into the quality, breadth and depth ...
The Humboldt Forum Opens In Berlin
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2021
The Humboldt Forum, the largest cultural development in Europe and the most ambitious in Germany this century, will open its doors to the public for the first time on Tuesday July 20, 2021, with free admission for the first 100 days to the inaugural exhibitions. From the Palace Cellar to the ...
Exhibition Exploring How French Art and Design Inspired Walt Disney Films Will Open at The Met in December
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2021
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts will be the first-ever exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to explore the work of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ hand-drawn animation. Opening December 10, it will draw new parallels between the magical creations of ...
Marine Arts Collection From Ratcliffe Estate & Multiple Other Estates At Schwenke Auctioneers July 10th Auction
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2021
675 Lots Include Over Sixty-Five Marine Paintings, Many Lots of Fine Art, Outsider Art, Antique Firearms, Dolls, Decoys & Rugs Woodbury, CT – On Saturday, July 10th Schwenke Auctioneers will offer 675 lots of estate property including the marine and nautical artifact collection from the ...
Picasso Work Found in Closet Fetches More Than $150,000 at John McInnis Auctioneers
Boston Globe / July 2nd, 2021
A small painting attributed to 20th-century master Pablo Picasso that was recently discovered in a closet in Maine has sold at auction in Amesbury, Mass., for more than $150,000, according to the Boston Globe. On June 26, John McInnis Auctioneers hammered down the work for $150,000, plus a 24 ...
The Wolfsonian–FIU Seeks New Heights With 'Aerial Vision' Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / June 23rd, 2021
Drawing largely from its renowned collection of art and design, The Wolfsonian–FIU will examine modern-age ambition in Aerial Vision, an exhibition about progress, promise, and perspective on view November 19, 2021 through April 24, 2022. The show will shed light on seismic changes brought in ...
Norway's $723 Million National Museum Sets Opening Date After Delays
Art Insider / June 17th, 2021
After long delays and public criticism, Norway’s new consolidated Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is planning to open its doors in one year, on June 11, 2022. The seven year planning and construction process, with several years of the public missing access to many of Norway's most valued ...
Reopening August 15, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Is Transformed Following $50 Million Renovation
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2021
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has announced the August 15, 2021 grand re-opening of its renewed and expanded galleries following a six-year, $50 million renovation, led by the Santa Barbara-based firm of Kupiec Architects PC and executed by Santa Maria-based Diani Corporation. Marking ...
A Major Exhibition of Historic Spanish Fashion Paired With Period Paintings Debuts at Meadows Museum in September
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2021
The Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, has announced a major exhibition of Spanish dress and fashion that will pair paintings from the Meadows’s collection with historic dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico in Madrid. Canvas & Silk: ...
French Woman Ends Long-Running Battle Over Pissarro Looted by Nazis
BBC / June 1st, 2021
A long legal battle over a Pissarro painting in an American museum collection was ended by a French woman in her 80s whose adoptive parents owned the work until Nazi occupation. Léone-Noëlle Meyer found out in 2012 that her family's Nazi-looted painting was held in the University of Oklahoma's ...
10 Works That Show Monet as a 'Struggling Artist' Under Pressure on View at Seattle Art Museum This Summer
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2021
The Seattle Art Museum will present Monet at Étretat (July 1–October 17, 2021), exploring the artist’s engagement with Étretat, a seaside village in Normandy, France. The exhibition takes Fishing Boats at Étretat (1885), the only work by Claude Monet in SAM’s collection, as inspiration, ...
'Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary' To Include Rarely Seen Works From the Artist's Family
ArtfixDaily / May 19th, 2021
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) announced its fall 2021 exhibitions, including Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary, opening October 23, 2021, and on view through January 23, 2022. Czech-born Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) was one of the most influential and celebrated artists in ...
'Rembrandt’s Orient' Conveys More Than a Fascination
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2021
Ideas of escapism, cultural appropriation and historical issues may weave through viewers' minds with the current exhibition Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century which has been extended to July 18, 2021, at the Museum Barberini, in Potsdam, Germany. It was ...
Planned 50% Funding Cuts to Arts Education In UK Sparks Protests
Guardian / May 10th, 2021
A planned 50% funding cut to arts subjects at universities in the U.K. has been met with fierce resistance. The UK's Office for Students (OfS) and the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, rolled out a plan that reduces spending for “high cost” higher education arts subjects in England from ...
In A First, Only Artist Collectives Are Shortlisted For Turner Prize 2021
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
Tate Britain has announced the shortlist for Turner Prize 2021: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. An exhibition of their work will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK, from September 29, 2021 to ...
British Artists Ackroyd & Harvey Plant 100 Oak Trees Outside Tate Modern
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2021
In advance of the Tate Modern galleries' reopening (planned for May 17) in London, Beuys’ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum. The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate ...
Birding Is Ultra Popular During the Pandemic; This Exhibition Offers An Eyeful of 'Rare and Wonderous' Feathered Friends
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is now showing Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820, through July 25, 2021. The exhibition, curated by TMA’s Head of Interpretive Projects and Managing Editor Paula Reich, showcases the museum’s recent acquisition of the important six-volume series ...
Marie-Josée Kravis Named MoMA Chair, Replacing Leon Black
New York Times / April 29th, 2021
New York's Museum of Modern Art announced on Tuesday that philanthropist Marie-Josée Kravis will replace investor Leon Black as chairman. According to the New York Times, Kravis, said in the virtual board meeting: “I know it’s a huge responsibility. I will try to live up to it.” Businesswoman ...