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NYT Debuts New Series of Guides to Iconic Museums
New York Times / January 4th, 2017
The New York Times debuted "Make the Most of The Met," a guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It highlights the best of the museum's offerings and offers tips to help visitors on their journey through one of America's most visited museums. Daniel McDermon, an editor on the culture desk, walks ...
John Berger, Art Critic Known For 'Ways of Seeing', Remembered
Guardian / January 3rd, 2017
Influential English art critic, essayist, poet, playwright and novelist John Berger, who lived mostly in France, has died at age 90. His 1970s Ways of Seeing BBC television series, also a book, opened up new ideas about viewing art and culture. Among his many publications, Berger's novel G. won ...
Will a New Law Facilitate Loans From Foreign States to U.S. Museums?
Lawfare Blog / January 2nd, 2017
Foreign states have been wary of loaning artworks to U.S. museums for exhibitions ever since the 2007 Malevich case. Heirs of artist Kazimir Malevich had sued the City of Amsterdam over the loan of his artwork to U.S. museums. The heirs contended the artwork was illegally acquired ...
New York Opens Art-Filled $4.5 Billion Second Avenue Subway Line
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2017
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo debuted Manhattan's new Second Avenue Subway station at 86th Street on January 1 - and it's part of a new transportation line full of world-class art. "In many way, this is a remarkable New York story. It started 100 years ago – 1920 – when an engineer for the ...
Poland Acquires Art Collection Worth 2 Billion Euros for 'Bargain' Price
DW / January 1st, 2017
Poland's State Treasury announced Thursday the purchase of Leonardo da Vinci's 1490 painting "Lady with an Ermine" and some 86,000 other objects from the private Czartoryski Foundation, which has been housing its collection in the National Museum in Krakow. The collection also ...
Dutch Court Orders Crimean Treasures Returned to Ukraine
Dutch News / December 15th, 2016
A Dutch court has ruled for Ukraine in the return of historical treasures from Crimea loaned a few years ago to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam for an exhibition titled “The Crimea: Gold and Secrets from the Black Sea.” A near two-year legal battle has been waged over whether the loaned ...
Polish Government Reveals Plan to Acquire $2-Billion Collection With Leonardo Masterwork
AFD / December 15th, 2016
The Polish government announced Wednesday an intention to acquire the 15th-century Leonardo da Vinci masterwork, "Lady with an Ermine", as part of a deal for a two-century-old collection estimated to be worth two billion dollars. The collection resides in the National Museum in Krakow and is ...
Happy Holidays from ARTFIXdaily, Closed Through Dec. 31
ArtfixDaily / December 15th, 2016
ARTFIXdaily will close for the holidays on Friday, Dec. 16. E-newsletter service will resume on January 1, 2017. ArtGuild members may continue to add content to ARTFIXdaily's ArtWire and Events calendar throughout the closure. Content promotions will resume on Jan. 1. Thank you to our ...
London Developer Leaves $490M in Art, Cars to Britain
Telegraph / December 14th, 2016
One of the biggest charitable bequests in British history has come from the estate of a property magnate who built the landmark Centre Point tower in London. Harry Hyams, who died last year at age 87, has left £387m ($498.34m) of his £487m estate for Britain to preserve his extensive collection ...
Heritage Auctions Sues Christie's Over Data Scraping
Dallas News / December 13th, 2016
Dallas News has reported that Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has sued rival auction house Christie's for allegedly stealing data by scraping its website. A copyright infringement suit was filed in federal court in Dallas on Friday. It claims that London-based Christie's and its independently ...
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 ...
National Petition Circulates to President-Elect Trump to Support the Arts in America
Arts Action Fund / December 8th, 2016
With legislative changes ahead under a new US Presidential administration, American for the Arts Action Fund developed a pro-arts action list in a national petition. While pointing out the important economic impact of the arts and culture sector in the US, the petition also includes the ...
Art Dealer's Heirs Sue Bavaria in New York Court
Reuters / December 6th, 2016
Heirs of a German Jewish art dealer filed a complaint against Bavaria on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Michael Hulton, a San Francisco doctor, and his stepmother Penny Helton, of Hertfordshire, England, claim that eight paintings owned by Alfred Flechtheim - before he ...
Long-Fought Case Over Contested Pissarro Masterpiece Hits Federal Appeals Court
AP / December 5th, 2016
A 16-year battle over an Impressionist masterpiece once looted by the Nazis went to a federal appeals court in Pasadena on Monday. Decades ago, the painting was exchanged for exit visas by Lilly Cassirer and her husband so that they could flee the Holocaust. The Jewish couple fled ...
Political Art Snapped Up at Art Basel Miami Beach
Forbes / December 4th, 2016
Political art was more prominent than usual at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, with more galleries devoting prime real estate in their booths to works inspired by the US presidential election. Many of those works sold quickly. By Friday afternoon, London gallery Sadie Coles HQ had sold almost ...
Art Basel Miami Beach Kicks Off With Some Conversations
Forbes / November 29th, 2016
The world’s largest and most important contemporary art fair takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week, and Forbes reports on the Art Basel Miami Beach highlights. For one, Galerie Gmurzynska will present visitors with an extraordinary exhibition of Russian Avant-Garde ...
Legal Fray Continues Over Disputed Resale of $127.5 Million Leonardo
Bloomberg / November 29th, 2016
Sotheby's has asked a federal judge to clear it of any wrongdoing in a long-fought case over the private sale of Leonardo da Vinci's “Christ as Salvator Mundi” to embattled "freeport king" Yves Bouvier. Bouvier later sold the work to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev who is engaged in ...
Artists Spark Political Protest in New York
New York Times / November 29th, 2016
About 150 artists, gallerists, and curators marched outside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Manhattan residential building on Monday with signs in protest of the president-elect's offensive comments about women and his proposed policies, reports the New York Times. The peaceful protest ...
Guess Co-Founders Set to Open New Museum in LA
Time Out / November 28th, 2016
TIME OUT Los Angeles: After years of buzz, the Marciano Art Foundation’s new museum in Los Angeles is getting closer to an opening date. Starting in spring of 2017, the doors will open on what looks set to become a Mid-Wilshire answer to the Braod or MOCA museums in Downtown, backed by ...
Iran Cancels Exhibition of Shah's Art Collection in Berlin
Guardian / November 28th, 2016
An exhibition of artworks from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art that was due to open in Berlin next month has been indefinitely postponed because the Iranian authorities have failed to allow the paintings to leave the country. Ticket sales for the event – which had been hailed as a sign ...