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'For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women' Exhibition Debuts at Norton Museum of Art in June
ArtfixDaily / May 20th, 2021
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, will present For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women, a new exhibition drawn largely from the Norton’s collection that explores issues of representation and inclusion in the art world. On view June 11 through October 3, For the Record ...
The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Receives Major Gift of 50 Artworks From Collector Gordon W. Bailey
ArtfixDaily / May 19th, 2021
The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi has received a major donation of 50 artworks by Los Angeles-based, advocate and collector Gordon W. Bailey. The transformative gift features African American artists Leroy Almon, David Butler, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial, Minnie Evans, Roy ...
The Obama Portraits Hit the Road
ArtfixDaily / May 18th, 2021
The official presidential portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will depart Washington, D.C., for the first time on a nationwide tour, starting this summer. The loans from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will be displayed in five cities. The first stop, from June 18-Aug. 15, is the ...
The Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection Aims to Deliver a Fresh Museum Experience in France
Town & Country / May 18th, 2021
Set to open on May 22 after a long delay, François Pinault's $170 million museum project The Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection is finally ready for the public in Paris. While limits to tourism during the pandemic may keep visitor numbers low in the short term, the new museum on the Right ...
Whitney Museum Workers Seek To Unionize
New York Times / May 17th, 2021
Employees at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York are looking to form a union under the United Automobile Workers. The New York Times reported that a petition asking for a union vote was filed on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board by the Technical, Office, and Professional ...
Basquiat Brings $93.1 Million at Christie's; Records Toppled at Sotheby's $596.8 Million Trio of Sales
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2021
A 1983 painting by Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat reached $93.1 million on Tuesday at a Christie’s auction in New York, nearly twice its estimated price. A ten-minute bidding battle between three phone bidders for “In This Case” began at $40 million, escalated quickly to $50 ...
Takashi Murakami Guest Curates 'Super-Rough' With Outsider Art Fair Dealers in New York
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2021
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will guest curate Super-Rough, a large-scale group exhibition of close to two hundred sculptural works by approximately 50-60 self-taught, visionary and vernacular folk artists from around the world. Overseen by Murakami, in collaboration with several dozen ...
Rarely Shown In the U.S., Masterworks from the Bemberg Foundation Go On View at San Diego Museum of Art This Summer, Along With Ana de Alvear's Photorealistic Drawings
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2021
The San Diego Museum of Art plans to open to two summer exhibitions, Cranach to Canaletto: Masterpieces from the Bemberg Foundation and Everything You See Could Be A Lie: Photorealistic Drawings by Ana de Alvear. From Old Master paintings to contemporary, hyper-realistic ...
Maya Lin's 'Ghost Forest' Takes a Stand In Manhattan's Madison Square Park
ArtfixDaily / May 11th, 2021
After a delay due to COVID-19 precautions, Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of forty-nine spectral cedar trees, is a powerful new public art work on view in New York's Madison Square Park, now through November 14, 2021. Killed by saltwater infiltration in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, the ...
Planned 50% Funding Cuts to Arts Education In UK Sparks Protests
Guardian / May 10th, 2021
A planned 50% funding cut to arts subjects at universities in the U.K. has been met with fierce resistance. The UK's Office for Students (OfS) and the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, rolled out a plan that reduces spending for “high cost” higher education arts subjects in England from ...
In A First, Only Artist Collectives Are Shortlisted For Turner Prize 2021
ArtfixDaily / May 10th, 2021
Tate Britain has announced the shortlist for Turner Prize 2021: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. An exhibition of their work will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK, from September 29, 2021 to ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens New Galleries and Public Spaces in Major Renovation
ArtfixDaily / May 6th, 2021
On May 7, 2021, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils to the public the culmination of two decades of planning, design, and construction: a project by the celebrated architect Frank Gehry that represents a major milestone in the renovation, reorganization, and interior expansion of the museum’s ...
Take A Virtual Walk-Through of Desert X 2021 in the Coachella Valley
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2021
After a postponement due to pandemic stay-at-home orders, Desert X 2021 is in its final weeks of a 9-week (to May 16) run in multiple loactions across California's Coachella Valley. On-site visitors can download a mobile app for exact locations and information on artworks. This third edition of ...
British Artists Ackroyd & Harvey Plant 100 Oak Trees Outside Tate Modern
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2021
In advance of the Tate Modern galleries' reopening (planned for May 17) in London, Beuys’ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum. The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate ...
Now at Peabody Essex Museum, Traveling Exhibition 'In American Waters' Casts New Light On Our Relationship With the Sea
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is now showing In American Waters, a painting exhibition that reframes and expands our understanding of American culture and environment by looking at the sea. For over 200 years, American artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry, ...
David Hockney Digital Billboards Deliver A Brilliant Sunrise To Major Cities
New York Times / May 2nd, 2021
Celebrated British artist David Hockney has created a 2½-minute animation of a sunrise in spring that will be broadcast on digital billboards across five major cities thoughout May. Now living in Normandy, France, Hockney, who is 83, used an iPad during lockdown to create the digital work, ...
Eli Broad, Billionaire Businessman Who Revitalized L.A. Cultural Scene, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / May 2nd, 2021
Eli Broad (1933-2021), the influential billionaire businessman and philanthropist who poured his fortune into cultural institutions, art collecting, public education, civic improvement and scientific endeavors, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87. His generous philanthropy, including the ...
Marie-Josée Kravis Named MoMA Chair, Replacing Leon Black
New York Times / April 29th, 2021
New York's Museum of Modern Art announced on Tuesday that philanthropist Marie-Josée Kravis will replace investor Leon Black as chairman. According to the New York Times, Kravis, said in the virtual board meeting: “I know it’s a huge responsibility. I will try to live up to it.” Businesswoman ...
Art Heals: A Museum In Italy Becomes COVID-19 Vaccine Site Enveloped In Claudia Comte's Site-Specific Audiovisual Work
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2021
From April 29, 2021, a Covid-19 vaccine center will be set up at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rivoli, on the outskirts of Turin, Italy. Vaccinations will be administered in the galleries of a Claudia Comte exhibition where visitors will be ensconced in a specially-created ...
Samsung Founding Family To Donate Massive Art Collection As $10.8 Billion Inheritance Tax Looms
AP / April 28th, 2021
South Korea's Samsung founding family will donate tens of thousands of artworks and gift hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research to help pay an estimated 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in taxes related to inheritance, following the death of chairman Lee Kun-Hee last year, according ...