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25,000 People Bought a Piece of One Picasso
AD / May 3rd, 2018
With Picasso's 'Musketeer Bust,' it's All for One, and One for All when 25,000 online buyers purchase the artwork. From Architectural Digest: QoQa is a Swiss website that typically offers discounted household items (like cooking utensils) or cheap airfare (like tickets to a number of North ...
The Museum of Lost Art
Bloomberg / May 2nd, 2018
In a new book, The Museum of Lost Art, (May 4, Phaidon, $35) author Noah Charney spotlights the great art that the world has lost. What’s been destroyed, Carney writes in the book’s introduction, includes “more masterpieces than all of the world’s museums combined.” In 280 pages, ...
Pacific Standard Time Boosted SoCal Economy by Over $430 Million
ArtfixDaily / May 1st, 2018
The Getty-funded, regional arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA contributed around $430.3 million to the Southern California economy between September 2017 and January 2018, according to a new report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). From the report's ...
French Museum Discovers More Than Half of Its Art is Fake
BBC / April 30th, 2018
Terrus museum in Elne in the south of France announced Friday that 82 works originally attributed to the Impressionist artist Étienne Terrus (1857-1922) are actually not by him. More than half the museum's collection is thought to be fake, prompting the town's mayor Yves Barniol to call the ...
Christo to Float 150-Ton Barrel Sculpture on London Lake
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2018
The latest work by artist Christo is under construction in London – it's a carefully floating stack of 7,506 barrels. The Mastaba will be a temporary draw in Hyde Park where the piece will float on Serpentine Lake from June 18 (weather permitting) to September 23, 2018. The ...
First Statue of a Woman Enters London's Parliament Square
NPR / April 24th, 2018
The first statue of a woman, and the first to be created by a female artist, went up in London's Parliament Square on Tuesday. For 150 years, monuments to only male statesmen have populated the square, including Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and seven others. ...
Modigliani Nude Could Bring $150 Million in Blockbuster Auction Series
CNBC / April 24th, 2018
Record-breaking May sales are expected at the major New York auction houses with a nude painting by Amedeo Modigliani estimated to bring $150 million, representing the highest auction estimate ever. The two week sale series at the major auction houses could possibly total over $2 billion. A ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed May 22 to 25
ArtfixDaily / April 22nd, 2018
ARTFIXdaily will be closed from May 22 to 25. E-newsletter service will resume on May 28. Image: The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery now presents “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in terms of their ...
Antonio Banderas Portrays Picasso in 'Genius' Series
New York Times / April 19th, 2018
Actor Antonio Banderas, a native of Spain, seems to be perfectly cast as Pablo Picasso in National Geographic’s “Genius” Season 2, which premieres April 24. The first season of “Genius”, which starred Geoffrey Rush as Einstein, was nominated for 10 Emmys, and was watched by over 45 million ...
Artwork from La Salle University Collection Hits the Auction Block
The Inquirer / April 18th, 2018
Philadelphia's La Salle University is unloading a trove of 46 American and European artworks from its museum collections through Christie's in a series of sales beginning in New York this week. School trustees say the sale proceeds will fund initiatives from La Salle University’s five-year ...
Judge Rules for Berkshire Museum Sales of Norman Rockwell, Other Artworks
New York Times / April 6th, 2018
A Massachusetts judge on Thursday gave the final approval for Berkshire Museum's controversial plan to sell artworks from its collections, including a significant Norman Rockwell painting that the artist gifted to the Pittsfield, Mass., institution. The decision comes after a seven month ...
Constable Painting Returned to Heir in Notable Swiss Restitution Case
ARTnews / April 4th, 2018
Switzerland has a sparse history in returning Nazi-looted art to rightful heirs. A recent case bucks the trend and shows the success of one man's quiet, but steely determination to recover his family's art collection, which was decades-ago seized and forcefully sold by France's Vichy government ...
Iowa Museum Finds 16th Century Painting Worth Millions in Closet
wsls / April 4th, 2018
In February 2016, a museum director in Iowa was looking for some Civil War flags when a staff member mentioned there was an array of collection items in a little-used storeroom. Robert Warren, director of Hoyt Sherman Place, a Des Moines museum and theater, then noticed a painting wedged ...
HBO's 'The Price of Everything' Takes on the Value of Beauty
Variety film review / April 2nd, 2018
A new HBO documentary on the art world pulls together an interesting array of characters for interviews on the value of art: gallery owner Mary Boone, Chicago philanthropist Stefan Edlis, auction house players such as Amy Cappellazzo, and artists like Gerhard Richter, Jeff ...
Art Dealer Graham Arader Lists His Antiques-Filled Hudson River Estate
Bloomberg / March 30th, 2018
New York-based antique map, book, and print specialist W. Graham Arader has listed his 1850s Italianate Victorian residence in Nyack, New York, one of several of his historic residences. “I own the seventh-oldest house in San Francisco,” he told Bloomberg, “I own the only pristine beaux-arts ...
US Government's National Monument Reduction Puts Historic Sites at Risk
Huffington Post / March 30th, 2018
The recent downsizing of Bears Ears National Monument, one of America's public lands that the Trump administration has drastically shrunk, puts thousands of historic and archaeologically significant sites at risk. This singular Utah destination is now opened up for mining and ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed April 12 and 13
ArtfixDaily / March 27th, 2018
ARTFIXdaily will be closed April 12 and 13, and subscriber e-newsletter service will resume on April 16. One of Spring's must-see exhibitions: In San Francisco, René Magritte: The Fifth Season — presented exclusively at SFMOMA from May 19 through October 28, 2018 — focuses on the ...
Eiffel Tower Could be Repainted, Red?
Smithsonian / March 21st, 2018
When the Eiffel Tower is repainted for the 20th time since 1889, the iconic Parisian structure could return to its original color --- red. The Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris are mulling over paint options, and looking back at historic choices. Currently a mellow metal color, over the ...
NYC Public Art Project Spotlights Climate Change, Birds and Audubon
ArtfixDaily / March 21st, 2018
In New York City over the last few years, North American birds have been slowly appearing --- in large-scale murals --- to emphasize that threatented birds might be disappearing. The Audubon Mural Project is bringing attention to endangered birds with dozens of public murals, a fitting ode to the ...
New Contemporary Art Museum to Debut in Florence
Firenze / March 18th, 2018
Art collector Roberto Casamonti, founder of the Tornabuoni Art gallery, will open a contemporary art museum in Florence, Italy, on March 24. Housed in the Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, a Renaissance building overlooking Santa Trinita square, the museum will bring 20th century to ...