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Innovative 20th-Century Paintings of Leon Polk Smith Spotlighted in New Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
Palm Springs Art Museum has announced an exhibition featuring the work of the innovative painter, Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996), whose significant contributions to twentieth-century art are becoming increasingly recognized. The exhibition, Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962, will run March 26 – August 28, ...
The Pioneering Modern Art and Design of Norman Ives Explored in Major Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut, will present Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions, a large-scale exhibition, opening on Saturday, Jan. 29. The exhibition explores the range and evolution of Norman Ives’s work and features examples of his paintings, collages, ...
Intersect Palm Springs to Feature 50 Exhibitors, Curated Spaces and Sculpture Garden
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2022
Intersect Palm Springs, a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of more than 50 emerging and established contemporary and modern art and design galleries, released its exhibitor list and special exhibitions for the 2022 edition. An Opening Night Preview on Thursday, February 10 will be ...
'A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence' Opens at The Block Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
“How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence?” asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting later this month at The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long ...
Palmer Museum of Art Exhibition Examines Evolution of Abstraction in the 1940s
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
A captivating new exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State considers how some of the most provocative midcentury artists made the leap from figuration to abstraction. A Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s features major works by Suzy Frelinghuysen, Arshile Gorky, Paul Keene, Lee ...
The Wonder of Wood Conference Explores Decorative Marquetry and Inlay
ArtfixDaily / January 23rd, 2022
The Wonder of Wood: Decorative Inlay and Marquetry in Europe and America, 1600–1900 will explore the history and artistry of inlay and marquetry in America and Europe. The conference will occur at both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Winterthur Museum, Garden & ...
Hudson River School Landscapes On View Alongside Frederick Law Olmsted Bicentennial Events
ArtfixDaily / January 18th, 2022
Connecticut's New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) will present The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society, January 28 to May 22, 2022, concurrent to the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted's birth in April, to examine the overlaps of ...
Long Overlooked, Leading 20th-Century American Artist Doris Lee Is Celebrated Once Again in Traveling Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / January 18th, 2022
Pennsylvania's Westmoreland Museum of American Art premiered Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee, which is now set to travel to three other museum venues as part of a national exhibition tour. The Westmoreland’s Chief Curator, Barbara L. Jones partnered with Melissa Wolfe, Curator of ...
Major Survey of Sean Scully Is Expanded for Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition This Spring
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2022
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major survey of Irish-born American artist Sean Scully, featuring paintings and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas will chart the artist’s significant contributions to the American and ...
'Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism' Opens at the McNay Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2022
Opening Friday, January 21, at the McNay Art Museum, in San Antonio, Texas, Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism presents a wide-ranging view of the American Modernist movement through 65 diverse artworks from the McNay’s permanent collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the ...
ARTFIXdaily Temporarily Closed This Week; Coming Up: Milton Avery Retrospective Travels
ArtfixDaily / January 9th, 2022
(ARTFIXdaily e-newsletter service will resume on January 17, 2022.) Beginning in Hartford, Connecticut, in the early 1900s, American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965) forged a staunchly independent path as an artist. Today, Avery is celebrated as a preeminent modern painter and one of the ...
New Museum to Show the First Full Retrospective in New York of Faith Ringgold This February
ArtfixDaily / January 6th, 2022
From February 17 to June 5, 2022, the New Museum will present the first full retrospective in New York of the art of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY). Bringing together over sixty years of work, “Faith Ringgold: American People” provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of ...
Lennart Anderson Retrospective Travels to Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut, Then Heads West
ArtfixDaily / January 5th, 2022
When you look at nature from a distance, you can see how it all fits together. There is a harmony, and that is what interests me. - Lennart Anderson After a fall run at the New York Studio School, Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective is on view at the Chauncey Stillman Gallery - Lyme Academy ...
Time Travel to Early 1900s Austria With Kirkland Museum's 'Josef Hoffman's Vienna'
ArtfixDaily / January 4th, 2022
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver presents Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna Jan. 21 through April 3, 2022, offering visitors the chance to time travel to early 1900s Austria without the need of a passport and plane ticket. Revel in the influence of architect and designer Josef ...
Kehinde Wiley Brings a 'New Kind of Sublime' to the National Gallery London
ArtfixDaily / December 30th, 2021
This winter, in his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, American artist Kehinde Wiley explores the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition – mountainous, coastal, sublime, Romantic and transcendental – through the mediums of film and ...
'Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects' at SFMOMA Examines a Former MIT Professor's Pioneering Art and Sustainable Designs
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
What does it mean to build, house, inform and inspire sustainable ways of living in the 21st century? American Israeli architect and founder of the New York-based practice, OXMAN, Neri Oxman questions the materials, tools and methods of architecture as we know it today. In the exclusive ...
The Winter Show and TEFAF Maastricht Among 2022 Art Fairs to be Postponed
ArtfixDaily / December 30th, 2021
Due to rising COVID-19 cases in New York City, the Board of Managers of East Side House Settlement—the owner and beneficiary of The Winter Show—announced a decision to postpone the 2022 edition of The Winter Show, originally scheduled for January 21-30. New dates at the Park Avenue ...
'His brush makes the quietest—the bleakest—places the most alluring;' Chiura Obata Works Acquired by Utah Museum
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
Thirty-five works by Chiura Obata, one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century, are now in the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah—thanks to a generous gift from the ...
Wayne Thiebaud, Iconic California Painter, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / December 27th, 2021
I think art is probably our saving grace. It can almost ignore our animal premise and spirits. It’s worth investing in as many deeply involved people as we can muster because I think that’s where our hopes lie: in giving us a life of pleasure, challenge, comfort, joyousness—all of the things that ...
Peter Lynch Donates More Than $20 Million in Art to Boston College
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2022
Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company and trustee associate at Boston College, has gifted 27 paintings and three drawings—worth in excess of $20 million—from his and his late wife Carolyn’s private art collection to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, ...