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Sculptor and Rockefeller Scion Allegedly Helped Russian Interests
Bloomberg / July 29th, 2018
From Bloomberg: A scion of the Rockefeller clan, George D. O’Neill Jr., was one of the U.S. conservatives who allegedly helped Mariia Butina’s efforts to build a secret line of communication back to the Kremlin, judging by details in recent U.S. filings. O’Neill, a 68-year-old sculptor and a ...
Van Gogh Museum Teams Up with Vans on Wearables
ArtfixDaily / July 26th, 2018
Vans goes van Gogh... Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum has collaborated with classic sneaker maker Vans on a line of shoes and attire emblazoned with the seminal artist's work. Vincent van Gogh's most iconic images such as Sunflowers and a Self-Portrait will debut next week on sneakers and ...
Art Dealer Says He Discovered Six De Koonings in New Jersey Storage Unit
The Guardian / July 23rd, 2018
A storage locker filled with artworks that an auction house passed up is said to include lost abstract expressionist paintings that could be worth millions of dollars. From the Guardian: A New York art dealer who bought the contents of a New Jersey storage locker for $15,000 says he ...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Brings Degas Pastel to Life
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2018
A pastel of ballerinas by Edgar Degas has been enacted by two members of the Boston Ballet to highlight the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's summer exhibtion of pastels. It was also the artist's birthday on Thursday. The brief clip shows the ballerinas reflect the composition of the Degas work, ...
Grant Allows Bates College Museum to Acquire Marsden Hartley Art, Create Online Resource
Bates / July 18th, 2018
The Bates College Museum of Art in Maine has acquired a prized painting by American modernist Marsden Hartley, with funds from a $100,000 grant to the museum from a foundation in New York City. The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts helped fund the purchase of ...
Houston Man Sells Picasso Artwork on Nextdoor
Austin360 / July 18th, 2018
A Houston man recently offered up a portrait that he listed as by Pablo Picasso on Nextdoor. Known as an online forum for neighbors to share local information, sell items, and (oftentimes) complain to eachother, Nextdoor seems an unlikely platform to have success with art-selling, yet the ...
Pop-Up wndr museum to Feature Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room
ArtfixDaily / July 17th, 2018
Tickets have gone on sale for one of Yayoi Kusama's famed Infinity Rooms in a new location at the wndr museum—an art and science pop-up in Chicago's West Loop, opening in August. Pronounced "wonder" museum, the pop-up space has no end date yet, but tickets are sure to go fast for the ...
Salvador Dali Foundation Sues Museum in California
Mercury News / July 15th, 2018
The Salvador Dali Foundation has sued the Dali17 Museum in Monterey, Calif., for copyright infringement. The suit claims the two-year-old museum is illegally profiting from the surrealist artist's name, likeness, and the reproduction of his copyrighted artworks. “Defendants have been informed ...
Motherwell Painting Found After Missing for Four Decades
New York Times / July 15th, 2018
A monumental painting by 20th century American master Robert Motherwell was recently found after going missing four decades ago, announced the FBI and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, last week. Berman said: “The storied past of this ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed From June 25 to July 6
ArtfixDaily / June 24th, 2018
ARTFIXdaily will be closed from June 25 to July 6. Subscriber e-newsletter service will resume on July 9. ArtGuild members may continue to post press releases to the ArtWire section during the closure. The image above is for Artscapes, a new series of playful installations designed ...
Gallery Owner Arrested for Placing 11-Foot Drug Spoon Sculpture Outside Purdue Pharma
Hartford Courant / June 24th, 2018
From the Hartford Courant: A Stamford, Connecticut, art gallery owner was arrested and charged with a criminal misdemeanor and a felony Friday morning after dropping an 800-pound steel sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon in front of Purdue Pharma, a top manufacturer of opioids, and then ...
Pasadena Museum of California Art Will Close This Fall
ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2018
Without mention of any reason, the 16-year-old Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) announced this week that the Southern California institution will close its doors. On June 13, at a PMCA Board meeting, Chairman Jim Crawford recommended that the museum close after the current exhibitions ...
Italy Reopens Investigation Into Missing Caravaggio Masterpiece
Telegraph / June 20th, 2018
Nearly 50 years have passed since a Caravaggio masterpiece was stolen, in a case considered by the FBI as in the top 10 art crimes worldwide. Investigators in Italy are now reopening the case of Caravaggio's missing Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco, which was cut from its ...
Napoleon's Hat From Waterloo Battle Brings $400,000 at Auction
New York Times / June 18th, 2018
A hat said to have been dropped by Napoleon Bonaparte on the battlefield of Waterloo catapulted to about $400,000 at an auction in France. The over 200-year-old artifact, one of 19 extant of Napoleon's iconic black bicorns, sold in Lyon for 350,000 euros, far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of ...
Second Major Fire Consumes Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building
The Art Newspaper / June 18th, 2018
A blaze that broke out on June 15 at Glasgow School of Art has left its historic heart devastated for a second time since a fire in 2014. Considered Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) building was undergoing a massive £35m restoration, including the ...
Gardner Museum Links Past and Present in Exhibition Featuring Prized Antiquity
WBUR / June 17th, 2018
Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum now explores the storied history and singular beauty of the Farnese Sarcophagus—as a centerpeice of a new exhibition—featuring its recent conservation, in-depth scholarship and a 3D artistic repsonse to the ancient artifact. With its glorious ...
'Frida Mania' Hits London, Lands on Google Arts & Culture
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2018
This week, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum opened the much-anticipated show Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up, on view until November 4. Frida look-a-likes showed up dressed in Kahlo's signature style at the exhibition opening. On view are many objects that have never left the artist's homeland; ...
Chinese Vase Found in Shoebox Fetches $19 Million at Auction
ABC / June 13th, 2018
An 18th-century Chinese vase found in a shoebox in an attic in France has sold for 16.2 million euros ($19.1 million) at auction in Paris, reports Reuters. The vase went for more than 20 times the pre-sale low estimate of 500,000 euros, making it the highest price ever for a single item ...
Ralph Coburn, Abstract Artist, Remembered
Miami Herald / June 10th, 2018
Abstract artist Ralph Coburn died June 5 in Miami, age 94. “Not enough people know about Coburn’s work, which is spare, beautiful, witty, and uncannily satisfying,” Sebastian Smee, the then art critic for Boston Globe, wrote in 2010. “Coburn himself, I’ve been told, is modest to a fault, which ...
Father Countersued Over Basquiat Painting Sale
Courthouse News Service / June 10th, 2018
From Courthouse New Service: Claiming that her father’s lawsuit gutted the auction of a Basquiat masterpiece, the middle daughter in a family of art collectors brought a $100 million legal demand of her own Thursday in the latest swat of an ugly family dispute. “Flesh and Spirit” sold for ...