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The Humboldt Forum Opens In Berlin
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2021
The Humboldt Forum, the largest cultural development in Europe and the most ambitious in Germany this century, will open its doors to the public for the first time on Tuesday July 20, 2021, with free admission for the first 100 days to the inaugural exhibitions. From the Palace Cellar to the ...
Exhibition of Vickie Pierre's Lyrical Works Examines Themes of Race, Colonialism and Who Gets to be the Princess
ArtfixDaily / July 15th, 2021
Like the town crier in a fractured fairy tale, “Be My Herald of What’s to Come” rings in Vickie Pierre’s premiere solo museum show (through Sept. 5, 2021) at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. In this new exhibition, her works cast a feminine deity spell within the Museum gallery. In the ...
Nevada Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Andrea Zittel and High Desert Test Sites
ArtfixDaily / July 14th, 2021
In 2000, artist Andrea Zittel relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to a property she purchased in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park, where she established a home, studio, and “testing grounds” called A-Z West. In 2002, with collaborators Andy Stillpass, John Connelly, Lisa Anne ...
The Rose Art Museum Highlights Its Radical Roots in Exhibition to Celebrate 60th Anniversary
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2021
“I don’t want to wallow in art history,” wrote Jack Whitten. “I want to use art history as a catapult." As an artist, Whitten recognized the past as both a foundation and a launching pad to reach uncharted realms. Organized in celebration of the Rose’s 60th anniversary and opening June 25th, the ...
LUMA Arles Opens with New Frank Gehry Building and Artist Commissions
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2021
LUMA Arles, a 27-acre creative campus at the Parc des Ateliers in the French city of Arles, opened to the public on June 26. Work by over 45 artists and designers features in the opening programme, with special new commissions for LUMA by major international artists, including Etel Adnan, Ólafur ...
An Embodied Dialogue Between the Earthly and the Spiritual, The Work of Alison Saar Is Shown Together In Major Survey
ArtfixDaily / June 21st, 2021
“A lot of my life has been a balancing act between anger and a kind of serenity, and that’s also reflected in my process.” - Alison Saar California's Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena will present the largest museum survey to date of the work ...
Important Fine Art Auction to be held on Boston’s North Shore
ArtfixDaily / June 18th, 2021
On Saturday, June 26th at 11:00 am (ET), John McInnis Auctioneers, LLC will present its June Important Fine Art Auction which will be conducted before a live audience and online. Over (550) lots of paintings, prints, sculptures, mid-century modern furniture and fine art reference books that ...
MacKenzie Scott Sends Millions to Arts Organizations in a $2.7 Billion Grant Give-Away
ArtfixDaily / June 16th, 2021
MacKenzie Scott, novelist and former wife of Jeff Bezos, announced on Tuesday donations of over $2.7 billion in unrestricted grants, notably targeted at the arts, small and mid-sized colleges, and racial justice groups. "Because community-centered service is such a powerful catalyst and ...
Crystal Bridges 2022 Exhibitions Will Explore Fashion, Architecture and Black Culture in the South
ArtfixDaily / June 16th, 2021
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the 2022 temporary exhibition schedule which includes the museum’s first fashion exhibition, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, its first architecture exhibition, Architecture at Home, and The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Nationally Touring Exhibition Re-Examines the American West Through Modern and Contemporary Art
ArtfixDaily / May 20th, 2021
“Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea” Opens in Boise, Idaho, July 31 Ideas about the American West, both in popular culture and in commonly accepted historical narratives, are often based on a past that never was, and fail to take into account important events that ...
London Looks To 'Reimagining' With Kensington + Chelsea Art Week Launching June 21
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2021
Part of the inaugural Kensington + Chelsea Festival 21 June – 31 August Kensington + Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) will launch the inaugural Kensington + Chelsea Festival in West London as part of the summer-long festival season of arts experiences in venues and unusual spaces, putting culture ...
Transformed Asian Art Museum Unveils New Pavilion with teamLab: Continuity
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2021
“We believe that there is a borderless, continuous relationship between us and the world.” — Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab founder Swirls of butterflies that twirl and fade, sunflowers that bloom and perish, crisscrossing crows in flight, streams of luminous ink, rooms alive with light ...
Julie Mehretu Painting Brings Artist Auction Record of $6.5 Million on Artsy
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2021
Julie Mehretu’s massive painting Dissident Score (2019–21) brought $6.5 million on Artsy last Thursday, setting a record for the artist at auction. Ethiopian-born American artist Mehretu, 51, whose two-decades worth of work is currently on view in a major retrospective at the Whitney ...
Reopening August 15, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Is Transformed Following $50 Million Renovation
ArtfixDaily / June 12th, 2021
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has announced the August 15, 2021 grand re-opening of its renewed and expanded galleries following a six-year, $50 million renovation, led by the Santa Barbara-based firm of Kupiec Architects PC and executed by Santa Maria-based Diani Corporation. Marking ...
Baltimore Museum of Art to Open Show Celebrating Rebellious Women Through History
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2021
From the heroines of ancient myth to the female trailblazers of the modern era, centuries of independent and rebellious women have been trivialized or condemned through the degrading myths and gendered stereotypes perpetuated in printed imagery. From July 18–December 19, 2021, the Baltimore ...
Venice Biennale 2022 Will Center On A Re-Envisioning Life Theme Inspired By Leonora Carrington Book
ArtfixDaily / June 9th, 2021
The pressure of technology, the outbreak of the pandemic, the heightening of social tensions, and the looming threat of environmental disaster remind us every day that as mortal bodies, we are neither invincible nor self-sufficient, but rather part of a symbiotic web of interdependencies that ...
Aiming to Capture the 'Insane Visual Transience of Beauty,' Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms Series Debuts at Fondation Cartier This Summer
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2021
The Cherry Blossoms are about beauty and life and death. They’re extreme—there’s something almost tacky about them. […] They’re decorative but taken from nature. […] They’re garish and messy and fragile and about me moving away from Minimalism and the idea of an imaginary mechanical painter and ...
Artist Sam Durant Sends a Message With An Enormous Abstracted Drone For New York's High Line Plinth
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2021
Artist Sam Durant and Chief Curator of High Line Art Cecilia Alemani will unveil Durant’s new large-scale public artwork Untitled (drone), a fiberglass sculpture depicting a Predator drone that is mounted 25 feet high, next Monday at the High Line Plinth, located on the High Line at 30th Street ...
Summer Destination: 'Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment' Opens June 12 at the Thomas Cole Site and Olana
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2021
From June 12-October 31, 2021, a special new exhibition is presented jointly at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and Frederic Church’s Olana (State Historic Site) in Hudson in New York’s Hudson River Skywalk Region. The Olana Partnership, Olana State Historic Site, and the ...
David Zwirner Launches Platform, Offering A New Click-To-Buy Art Marketplace
New York Times / May 20th, 2021
Mega-gallerist David Zwirner launched a new art buying experience on Thursday simply called Platform. Platform aggregates a selection of artworks, priced well under $50,000, from smaller partner galleries' inventory in a rotating online exhibit. The difference from other online art-selling ...