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Techie-Style Seattle Art Fair Wraps Second Edition
New York Times / August 7th, 2016
"The Seattle Art Fair, started last year by Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has a proud inner geek," Kirk Johnson writes for the New York Times. Allen explained in an interview with the Times: "There's always this interesting tension between fairly intellectual pursuits like ...
Official Posters for the 2016 Rio Olympics
Dezeen / August 7th, 2016
Designs by 13 artists were chosen to represent the 2016 Rio Oympics. The posters capture the spirit of the summer games and the city itself, from Brazilian street artist Kobra's vibrant take of a child flying a kite over a favela to Beatriz Milhazes' stylized rings over water. The ...
François Pinault Steps Up Plans for Paris Art Museum
New York Times / August 4th, 2016
French luxury-goods billionaire François Pinault has accelerated plans for a private art museum in Paris to bring a bright new spot to the city after a string of terror-attacks. The Paris City Council approved final plans last month for the museum to open in a renovated 18th-century stock ...
Researchers Use Particle Accelerator to Reveal Hidden Degas Painting
Scientific Reports / August 4th, 2016
Edgar Degas once painted over one of his works -- a typical enough practice for any artist. Yet, when the great Impressionist painted Portrait Of A Woman around 1870, he skipped painting a middle layer over the previous painting. Degas just rotated the canvas, painting another portrait ...
Public Art Canceled Just Prior to Rio Olympics
The Art Newspaper / August 3rd, 2016
Brazil's culture minister Marcelo Calero has cancelled some of the art program timed for the 2016 Rio Olympics due to budget cuts. The latest casualty is Italian artist Giancarlo Neri's Bar Paris, featuring 1,415 lighted chairs, which was to be installed in the Glória neighbourhood of ...
New Dali Museum Opens in California
SFGate / August 3rd, 2016
Spanish painter Salvador Dalí was a familiar face in Monterey, California, in the 1940s. He resided for 7 years in the coastal town. This summer, over 540 works by the famed Surrealist artist entered the Museum of Monterey, renamed Dalí17 Museum. The artist's etchings, lithographs and ...
SF Museums Board Head Dede Wilsey to Step Down
San Francisco Chronicle / August 1st, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle: Dede Wilsey, longtime head of the board that runs the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor in San Francisco, is giving up her top spot after the museums paid a $2 million settlement to a former high-ranking executive who said Wilsey had her ousted for revealing alleged ...
Chinese Company Becomes Major Shareholder in Sotheby's
New York Times / August 1st, 2016
China's Taikang Life Insurance disclosed last Wednesday that it had become Sotheby's biggest shareholder, with a 13.52% stake. Taikang is run by Chinese tycoon Chen Dongsheng, who helped found China Guardian Auction Co. Chen is an established power player in the Chinese art market. He modeled ...
Italian Consumer Group Files Complaint Against Christo's Floating Piers
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=88392#.V3F5i7grKE2 / June 27th, 2016
The Italian consumer group Codacons announced on Monday that it would be filing a complaint to the Lombardy region's spending watchdog over the massive artwork on view there by 81-year-old artist Christo, reports AFP. "The Floating Piers" has drawn throngs of visitors to a near-2 mile walkway ...
Bavarian State Sold Some Stolen Art to Nazi Families
Sullivan & Worcester blog / June 27th, 2016
The Monuments Men, the group portrayed by George Clooney and others in the 2014 movie, made a huge effort to find Nazi-looted artwork during the Second World War. But the Allies left the actual restitution to the countries from which the art was looted. Apparently, the Allies returned ...
ARTFIXdaily Will Return Refreshed on Aug. 1
ArtfixDaily / June 27th, 2016
Dear Readers, ARTFIXdaily will be closed through July 31, 2016. The e-newsletter subscriber service, and promotions of ArtGuild content will resume on August 1. There will not be a weekday email of news for the month of July. ArtGuild members may still post press releases and event listings ...
Bill Cunningham, Legendary Fashion Photographer, Remembered
New York Magazine / June 26th, 2016
Famed fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, known for his candid style, died Saturday at the age of 87. He focused on capturing the personal style of regular folks seen on New York streets as opposed to celebrities in haute couture. Jerry Saltz writes for New York Magazine that Cunningham was ...
Twitter Weighs in on Brexit Impact on U.K. Art World
ArtfixDaily / June 23rd, 2016
Twitter users weighed in on Brexit in the days before a vote on the referendum, and in the hours after voters decided the UK will leave the European Union. David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) Almost all leaders in fields of economics, politics, science, arts, medicine from across world ...
Christie's Auction in London Brings a Soft Total on Eve of Brexit Vote
Bloomberg / June 22nd, 2016
On the eve of the referendum that decides whether the U.K. stays in the European Union, Christie's had its smallest tally for a major evening sale of Impressionist and modern art in more than a decade. The sale total came to 25.6 million pounds ($37.8 million), well below its presale ...
Thousands Walk on Water at Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Floating Piers in Italy
ArtfixDaily / June 22nd, 2016
Legendary artist-duo Christo, 81, and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, conceived of The Floating Piers almost 50 years ago. The $17 million project has finally been realized, after other sites fell through, in Italy's Lombardy region. Legions of fans -- about 40,000 are expected over 16 days -- are ...
New Funding For Start-Up Curating Art For the Masses
TechCrunch / June 21st, 2016
Juniqe, the Berlin-based marketplace for curated art, has closed €14 million in Series B funding, reports TechCrunch. The site "discovers" art on social media and prints on-demand versions across categories, from wall art to home decor and fashion, with buyers throughout Europe. “On the demand ...
3 High-Level Employees Exit Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times / June 19th, 2016
Three leaders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are departing, the New York Times reported on Friday. The exodus follows the museum's announcement in April that a $10 million deficit would necessitate cost cutting. The Met's first chief digital officer, Sree Sreenivasan, along with senior vice ...
Items From 'Modernist Icon' The Four Seasons Restaurant at Auction
Dezeen / June 15th, 2016
The Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York is considered by many as "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism." The restuarant is an unusual intact example of the International Style shown through its architecture and every element of decor. Wright will auction off ...
Lost Gauguin Still-Life Surfaces in Connecticut
Art Newspaper / June 16th, 2016
Connecticut's Litchfield County Auctions has discovered a long-lost still-life by Paul Gauguin. The work was consigned by a retired Manhattan antiques dealer who had purchased it from a collector in the 1980s; he then hung the painting for 30 years in his own home without knowing the artist. ...
Art Basel Begins With Steady Sales
Bloomberg / June 15th, 2016
Art insurer AXA estimates about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) worth of art is up for sale at the 47th edition of Art Basel. Steady streams of billionaires and jet-set buyers came for opening day of the leading contemporary art fair on Tuesday and they were reportedly in a competitive but not ...