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MFA Boston Reframes the American Experience in 'Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories'
ArtfixDaily / October 17th, 2021
Quilts are a democratic art. They provide a window into the lives of the many people who have made and used textiles, across geographic, political, social and economic contexts. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), from October 10, 2021 through January 17, 2022, Fabric of a Nation: ...
$100 Million Redesign of 1.3 Mile Section of L.A.'s Crenshaw Boulevard to Feature Major New Works by 100 Black Artists
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021
Destination Crenshaw, the $100 million public-private initiative to redesign 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard as an economically thriving business and cultural corridor for Black L.A., took a major step forward on Thursday, as the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission approved plans for the ...
Major Exhibition of Romare Bearden Abstract Works Begins Museum Tour
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021
Romare Bearden: Abstraction, an important traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, is comprised of approximately 55 works by the ground-breaking African American artist. Romare Bearden: Abstraction presents the ...
Global Perspectives on Surrealism Explored in Groundbreaking Exhibition at The Met
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but understanding of the movement has come primarily through a Western European orientation. The major exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism beyond boundaries of geography and ...
Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie's Star Keeps Rising With Over $180,000 Sale of 'Pyramid and Moon'
ArtfixDaily / October 12th, 2021
Kaminski Auctions' special fall fine art auction on September 19 at the North Shore Art Association, in Massachusetts, featured a small oil painting by Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) that soared to $181,250 (with fees) from a $10/15,000 estimate. Dated 1946, the 10¼ by 12½ inch ...
De Young Museum Presentation of Alice Neel Blockbuster To Spotlight Her Time in San Francisco
ArtfixDaily / October 11th, 2021
Following its run at the Met, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present the first comprehensive museum survey of work by American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) on the West Coast. This retrospective positions Neel as one of the 20th century’s most radical painters–one who championed ...
Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
After premiering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in April, an exhibition of Karl Bodmer's portraits of Indigenous people has arrived at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and then will continue on to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX.) in fall 2022. During the early ...
A Rediscovered Masterwork, 19th Century Paintings and Pomo Basketry Combine In Traveling Exhibition 'Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo'
ArtfixDaily / October 10th, 2021
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo explores the intercultural exchange between French-born and -trained American artist Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) and the Indigenous Pomo community of Elem at Clear Lake in Northern California. The exhibition is on view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
New Exhibition Examines Cultural Exchange Between American Artists and Venetian Glassmakers During the Late 19th Century
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
The exhibition “Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” brings to life the Venetian glass revival of the late 19th century and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for visiting artists. It is the first comprehensive examination of American ...
Art Investment Platform Masterworks Is Now Valued at $1 Billion
TechCrunch / October 7th, 2021
Masterworks.io, a pioneering startup offering fractional investment in fine art, raised $110 million in Series A funding at a pre-money valuation north of $1 billion this week. The New York City-based platform reached unicorn valuation following funding from Left Lane Capital, with ...
Exemplary American Art On View in 'Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection' at Dallas Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / October 5th, 2021
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is set to present Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection, an exhibition of the excellent Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May. Pursuit of Beauty features 28 19th- and ...
'Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950' Debuts at The Whitney on October 9
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950, an exhibition of works drawn primarily from the Museum’s collection that celebrates the innovative abstract art made by women in the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition features over ...
Preview Selections of American Art in 'The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum'
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2021
The Morse Museum of American Art’s fall exhibition The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum opens on November 9. The exhibition showcases the exquisite collection assembled by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins over the course of fifty-five years. As announced in March ...
'Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South' Goes On View at The Morgan
ArtfixDaily / September 22nd, 2021
The Morgan Library & Museum presents Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South, opening September 24, 2021, and running through January 16, 2022. This exhibition celebrates the Morgan’s 2018 acquisition of eleven drawings from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an ...
Fondation Beyeler Exhibition Explores Shifts in Portraiture With Works by These 9 Women Artists
ArtfixDaily / September 20th, 2021
“CLOSE-UP” brings together nine women artists whose work shares a focus on the depiction of the human figure in the form of portraits and self-portraits, and who occupy prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. The exhibition, on view now through January 2 ...
Exhibition of American Drawings at the Chazen Museum of Art Reflects Broader Image of Nation
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2021
A survey of American drawings from the 18th century to the early 20th century introduces audiences to a range of artists, from anonymous to well-known practitioners, who excelled in a variety of drawing media and subject matter. Organized by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of ...
Dallas Museum of Art Presents 'Point, Line, Plane' Honoring Gift of Works on Paper
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2021
Opening September 26 at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), a new exhibition honors a remarkable gift from the estate of distinguished scholar William B. Jordan and his husband, Robert Dean Brownlee. Celebrating the establishment of the Museum’s Works on Paper Department, Point, Line, Plane: The ...
Barbara Kruger Traveling Exhibition Kicks Off at Art Institute of Chicago
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2021
The Art Institute of Chicago will debut Thinking of Y̶o̶u̶. I Mean M̶e̶. I Mean You., a major solo exhibition devoted to the work of renowned artist Barbara Kruger. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 19, 2021 through January 24, 2022, the exhibition will encompass four ...
The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2021
The Institute and Museum of California Art (IMCA) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) will present its fall exhibition, The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting from September 11, 2021 through January 15, 2022 at IMCA’s interim museum location at 18881 Von ...
Georgia Museum of Art Receives Major Photography Gift
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2021
Multimillion dollar gift places the museum among the nation’s best in 20th-century photography The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received a gift of nearly 3,000 photographs with a current appraised value of nearly $8 million. The gift dramatically expands the museum’s ...