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#MuseumBowl Featured More Patriots While the Super Bowl Had Andy Warhol
massLive / February 25th, 2019
This year, regional art museums kept the ball in play with the fun tradition of regional Twitter wars in artwork and taunts, noted on MassLive in the run-up to Super Bowl LIII. Once again, from New England, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston had some stingers for the opposing team's J. Paul Getty ...
Painting On Loan In Europe From MFA Houston Is Nazi Loot, Claim Heirs
Houston Chronicle / February 2nd, 2019
A legal claim has been filed for an artwork currently on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to a museum in Germany. Heirs of French real estate developer Gaston Levy, who lost his massive collection of French Impressionist artworks to the Nazis in World War II, say ...
British Museum Director Calls Keeping Parthenon Sculptures a "Creative Act"
Ta Nea / January 29th, 2019
In an exclusive interview with Ta Nea, Greece's daily newspaper, the director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, dismissed the latest uproar for the Parthenon Sculptures to be returned to Greece. [Read backstory and ARTFIXdaily's opinion: Brexit Could Help the Case for Parthenon Sculptures ...
Desert X 2019 Is Back And Featuring Artists From Jenny Holzer to Superflex
ArtfixDaily / January 28th, 2019
Desert X, the contemporary art biennial in various locations across California's arid Coahcella Valley, is back from Feb. 9 to April 21, 2019. The first edition of this free, curated exhibition of large-scale artworks drew around 200,000 people in 2017. A "Desert X 2017'' catalog will be ...
The U.S. Formally Withdraws From Unesco, the U.N. Agency That Aims to Build Peace Through Cultural Understanding
New York Times / January 23rd, 2019
This month, the United States officially left Unesco, the United Nations' cultural and scientific organization. The U.S. was a founding member of Unesco, which was established following the horrors of the World War II era. While the U.S. withdrawal is newly in effect, the Trump administration ...
Museum Readies to Display Newly Restored Multi-million Dollar Painting Found in Closet
Des Moines Register / January 23rd, 2019
In 2016, an Iowa museum director was looking in a closet for a Civil War-era flag when he found a long-lost painting worth millions. Now with a full restoration completed and a security system in place, "Apollo and Venus," the rediscovered ca. 1600 work by renowned Dutch artist Otto van Veen, ...
New Showroom Launches for Antiques and Design Businesses in Philadelphia
Business of Home / January 22nd, 2019
Joe Holahan and Jeff Kamal of Kamelot Auctions have founded an antiques center that offers dealers the chance to house booths and showrooms in New York’s unofficial sixth borough, Philadelphia, reports Business of Home. “What’s happening in our industry is that good locations ...
Known as Museum Donors, Sackler Family Now Under More Scrutiny in OxyContin Lawsuits
Boston / January 20th, 2019
Long-celebrated as arts and culture philanthropists, the Sackler family is increasingly in headlines for their company's role in pushing OxyContin, the prescription drug that has helped fuel a nationwide opioid epidemic. A legal filing filed in Massachusetts last week newly alleges that 8 Sackler ...
Virtually Browse (and Support) the 20 Museums Closed by the Government Shutdown
ArtfixDaily / January 15th, 2019
With the 19 federally-funded Smithsonian museums and the National Gallery of Art in DC closed due to the continuing federal government shutdown, people can still view collections and support these vital American institutions--online. The Smithsonian website has an array of thematic exhibitions ...
James Turrell's 'Roden Crater' Project Gets $10 Million Donation from Kanye West
ASUnow / January 14th, 2019
James Turrell, 75, began his Roden Crater Project in 1977. The California artist has gotten a huge recent boost to the endeavor through a partnership with Arizona State University to raise $200 million, and now celebrity rapper Kanye West says he'll pitch in with a major donation. Kelly Crow ...
Art Expert Says Cat Destroyed His Rare 17th-Century Painting
Telegraph / January 10th, 2019
A cat wrecked a rare 17th-century portrait painting, according to the pet's owner, UK-based art historian and writer Dr. Bendor Grosvenor. Grosvenor says the £5,000 ($6,371) artwork by Scottish artist John Michael Wright was scratched up by his cat, named Padme, after he had applied a warm ...
Lawsuit Dismissed Against Artforum and Knight Landesman in #MeToo Case
New York Times / January 5th, 2019
A New York State Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Knight Landesman, the 68-year-old co-owner and former publisher of Artforum magazine, that alleged he repeatedly sexually harrassed a former employee and another eight women who came forward. Artforum was named in the ...
Federal Government Shutdown Closes 20 Museums
ArtfixDaily / January 5th, 2019
Due to the continuing U.S. federal government shutdown, Smithsonian museums and the National Gallery of Art have been closed since January 2 and 3, respectively. All 19 Smithsonian museums, including the National History Museum, the Hirshhorn and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as the ...
Happy Holidays from ARTFIXdaily! Closed to January 7
ArtfixDaily / December 16th, 2018
Happy Holidays from ARTFIXdaily! We will be closed until January 7, 2019, and subscriber e-newsletter service will resume that day. New: Follow us on Instagram for our art posts, along with updates and announcements @artfixdaily Wishing our readers and ArtGuild members a peaceful holiday ...
Over a Year After Hurricane Devastation, Houston's Pearl Fincher Museum Reopens With A Top-Tier Collection of American Art On View
ArtfixDaily / December 13th, 2018
In Houston, the 10-year-old Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, which closed for renovation after Hurricane Harvey flooded its building in late August 2017, has reopened. The revamped museum is now showing new gifts along with more than 50 outstanding works from a private collection of American ...
Researchers Discover Way to Fight The Bacteria That Ruins Paintings
Fast Company / December 12th, 2018
Besides sunlight, heat, humidity and other factors, paintings face deterioration over time because of bacteria. A group of Italian researchers now says that old paintings can be better preserved by adding more bacteria to the mix. They discovered that some bacterial spores will fight the bad ...
Neustadt Opens Up Its 250,000-Piece Tiffany Glass Archive For Tours
AD / December 11th, 2018
The public can now go on tours of the world's largest archive of glass remnants from Tiffany Studios. From December through February, twice a month, the non-profit Neustadt is offering hour-and-a-half-long tours to preregistered groups, capped at six people, reports AD. The Neustadt ...
Museums, Cultural Sites Reopen After Violent Protests in France
FRANCE24 / December 9th, 2018
France cleaned up on Sunday after a fourth weekend of protests resulted in violence and property damage. Dozens of museums, shops and cultural sites closed around Paris on Saturday. Some 125,000 "yellow vests," the name for protestors wearing the bright safety vests, demonstrated across the ...
Jerry Saltz Has A Brutal Theory On Why the World's Most Expensive Painting Is "Missing"
Vice / December 7th, 2018
Critic Jerry Saltz explains "Why the World's Most Expensive Painting Has Gone Missing" in a Vice video here. While we're assuming "missing" equates to "out of public view," Saltz claims the reason is that the $450 million Leonardo da Vinci titled "Salvator Mundi" is a "made up piece of ...
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 is Living Coral
ArtfixDaily / December 6th, 2018
From fashion to homewares, interior design to everyday products, our visual experience from year-to-year is often influenced by Pantone's pick of "color of the year." Since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute has declared a choice of "top color" that makes its way into brands, onto runways, ...