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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Crowds Swarm New Art-Filled $2.26 Billion Transit Center in San Francisco
Hyperallergic / August 12th, 2018
Some twenty years in the making, a new $2.26 billion transit center in San Francisco is expected to eventually host over 100,000 people per day. Salesforce Transit Center opened Aug. 11 with huge crowds for a public preview. The massive facility boasts a five-acre rooftop park and is ...
'The Brady Bunch' House Will Get a 70s Style Restoration by HGTV
CNN / August 7th, 2018
HGTV is the new owner of a North Hollywood, Calif., home that was featured as the exterior setting for the popular 1970s series, "The Brady Bunch." Listed at $1.9 million, multiple offers, including one from singer Lance Bass, likely drove up the price for the split-level. "This iconic ...
Artists in Protest Art Exhibition Protest the Museum Hosting It
New York Times / August 5th, 2018
Artists represented in an exhibition of protest art in London voiced concerns to the museum over its hosting of an event for a defense contractor. Then, in an ironic twist, some artists of the protest art came to withdraw their artwork from the Design Museum in London, in protest. Artist ...
MOCA LA Taps MoMA PS1 Director to Lead
New York Times / August 1st, 2018
After years of tumult and high turnover, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is heading into a new chapter with a new director. Once again recruiting from New York, the oft-embattled MOCA has chosen Klaus Biesenbach, who currently leads MoMA PS1 in Queens and is curator-at-large at MoMA, ...
20 Pieces for Chippendale’s Tercentenary Plus New Work by Marina Abramović Among Highlights of Masterpiece London 2018
ArtfixDaily / June 6th, 2018
The Masterpiece London 2018 edition, which runs from June 28 - July 4 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, will present an array of art from the 18th-century carved creations of Thomas Chippendale to the debut of new forms of work by famed performance artist Marina Abramović. With Thomas ...
New V&A Location Part of £1.1 Billion Transformation of East London Into Cultural Hub
The Times / June 5th, 2018
A new outpost for the V&A is part of a £1.1 billion plan for London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford to be transformed into the “East Bank,” a cultural hub hosting branches of Sadler’s Wells, London College of Fashion and University College London (UCL). London Mayor Sadiq Khan ...
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 ...
Digital Art Jumps on the Blockchain Bandwagon
fivethirtyeight / March 8th, 2018
From fivethirtyeight: "A small triumvirate of artists, technologists and financiers are using the blockchain to render art rare and then selling it. In the process, they’ve figured out a way to make digital art valuable... Technology like the blockchain, they say, democratizes art by creating ...
Michelangelo's Tuscan Villa Is Still For Sale
Travel + Leisure / February 14th, 2018
If you missed the once-in-a-lifetime Michelangelo exhibition at the Met this winter, which drew some 700,000 visitors, there is another chance to get close to the Italian Renaissance master. Villa Michelangelo, the ten-bedroom "farmhouse" that the artist bought in 1549 is seeking a new owner, ...
Cutting-Edge U.S. Embassy in London Opens Chock-Full of Art This Week
ArtfixDaily / January 14th, 2018
The 1960s building that housed the U.S. embassy in London needed costly renovations and posed security risks in busy Mayfair, prompting a decision in 2007 to purchase a new site. Opening to the public on January 16, the new U.S. embassy resides in South London's Nine Elms area, below the ...
The Most Instagrammed Museums in the World
ArtfixDaily / November 30th, 2017
Data from Instagram has ranked the most popular museums in the world on the image sharing platform. Chart-topping in attendance at 7.4 million annual visitors is the Mona Lisa's home --- the Louvre --- which unsurprisingly ranks highest on the World's Most ...
Wende Museum Showcases Material Culture of the Cold War Era
ArtfixDaily / November 28th, 2017
The Wende Museum in its new location in Culver City, Calif., is a collections-based research and education institute that preserves Cold War artifacts and history, making resources available to scholars and applying historical lessons of the past to the present. From a vandalized bust of ...
California Art Studio Raises $100K in 2 Days for Fire Relief
SFGate / October 15th, 2017
The San Francisco artist-couple behind a popular "I Love You California" art print ran a 2-day fundraiser that quickly generated $100,000 for fire relief in Northern California. 3FishStudios partnered with The What newsletter and Next Draft mailing list to get word out about the special ...
Snapchat's Virtual Jeff Koons Sculpture Vandalized
Fast Company / October 9th, 2017
A sculpture of a balloon dog by Jeff Koons that exists in augmented reality has been vandalized. Just last week, Snap Inc. announced the new AR feature which allows users to discover virtual Koons art in public places around the world. A giant AR Koons piece in New York's Central Park ...
NYC's Museum of Ice Cream Heads to California
LA Magazine / February 20th, 2017
The sensational pop-up Museum of Ice Cream that sold-out tickets when it opened in New York last summer is heading to southern California. A new location is expected to open next month, possibly in the Santa Monica/Venice Beach area, according to reports. In five days, all 30,000 tickets were ...
Think Nature: Pantone's Color of the Year is a Rejuvenating Green
Pantone / December 8th, 2016
Rather weary of seeing red and blue? Taking the pulse of the times, the Pantone Color Institute has offered up a bright shade of green for its Color of the Year. Greenery is Pantone's choice for 2017. Expect the color to repeat in art, design and fashion - although this shade is ...
Rijksmuseum Gives Awards for the Best Riffs On Its Masterpieces
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2016
The Dutch national museum is holding its annual competition for the best "forgery." Entrants can copy an Old Master in a new way or be inspired in any imaginable medium--from food to wood to fragrance to film--by artwork in the collection of Netherland's Rijksmuseum. The three-year-old program ...