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Shepard Fairey Set Design Debuts in Justin Peck's Heatscape at Miami City Ballet
ArtfixDaily / April 1st, 2015
Miami City Ballet (MCB) is closing out its season with a world-premiere by choreography’s current wunderkind, Justin Peck, who collaborated on set deisgns with iconic street artist Shepard Fairey, well-known for his 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Part of Points of Departure, the ...
New Film 'Woman in Gold' Reveals Story Behind Looted Klimt Painting
Guardian / March 31st, 2015
A new film details one woman's epic fight for her family's art collection confiscated by the Nazis. 'Woman in Gold' is a historical drama that tells the story of how a recognized masterpiece by Gustav Klimt--the 1907 gold-flecked portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I"--was eventually restituted ...
Dutch Royal Family to Return Nazi Plundered Painting
BBC / March 31st, 2015
The Dutch royal family will return a painting seized by the Nazis during World War II to the heirs of the owner. "The Hague Forest with a View of Huis ten Bosch Palace" by 17th century Dutch master Joris van der Haagen was purchased in 1960 by Queen Juliana from a Dutch art dealer who did ...
FBI Identifies Thieves Behind Gardner Museum Heist - Art Still Missing
Breitbart / March 31st, 2015
Two men who raided Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, making off with 13 masterpieces worth half a billion-dollars, have been identified by the FBI twenty-five years after the crime took place. One was a local thug, and the other was an ex-con whose lawyer, John Kerry, now Secretary of ...
Michael Rush, Director of Broad Art Museum and Former Director of Rose Art Museum, Remembered
Lansing State Journal / March 30th, 2015
A writer, curator, and museum director, Michael Rush started out in the 1970s as a Jesuit priest and psychologist. He then became an actor, with roles on "Law and Order" and "Spenser: For Hire," before switching to art criticism. Rush died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 66. He began ...
RBC's Bahamas Unit Reeled into Probe of Art Dealer Wildenstein
Globe and Mail / March 30th, 2015
Allegations of tax evasion lodged against New York and Paris-based billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein have pulled in the Royal Bank of Canada's Bahamas subsidiary. On Monday, a French prosecutor recommended to a judge that RBC Trust Company (Bahamas) Ltd. be charged with ...
Researchers Say Haystack Painting is a Rediscovered Monet
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2015
An impressionist work from 1891 has been authenticated through modern technology as the work of Claude Monet. Scientists used a hyperspectral camera to reveal the artist's signature under layers of paint. Monet apparently painted over his own signature, say the researchers from the University ...
Tate Leads the Way in Museum Digital Marketing
HBS / March 26th, 2015
A Harvard Business School (HBS) report explores how the London-based Tate has transformed its marketing strategy to treat its online presence as a "fifth gallery," equal in stature to its other four museums. "The singular focus put on digital programs has gone far beyond the marketing ...
Cooper Union Finances Probed by New York Attorney General
Wall Street Journal / March 26th, 2015
New York Attonry General Eric Schneiderman is investigating the financial dealings of New York's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The probe follows the school's decision to charge undergraduate tuition after 150 years of keeping it free, and a lawsuit against the school ...
Picasso Estimated to Bring Auction Record $140 Million in May
Christie's / March 25th, 2015
A masterpiece by Pablo Picasso could fetch an auction record price this spring at Christie's. The auction house is banking on "Les femmes d'Alger (Version “O”) to fetch $140 million, or more, and with a buyers premium added in the final price could exceed $155 million. Christie's ...
Scientists Call for David Koch's Museum Board Resignations
WaPo / March 24th, 2015
A group of scientists sent an open letter to America's largest natural history museums calling for a severance of ties with the fossil fuel industry, specifically the billionaire Koch brothers of Koch Industries. The call was made for the museums to distance themselves from “those who ...
Iconic 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Painting Now Resides in Minnesota
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2015
A version of Emanuel Leutze's famous image of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" has moved from Washington, DC, to its new home at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona. The nearly 3-by-6-foot painting from 1851 was unveiled Sunday at a private event and goes on public view this week ...
Nazi-Looted El Greco Returned to Rightful Owners
NY Times / March 24th, 2015
A painting by El Greco that was seized by the Gestapo in Vienna in 1938 has been returned to the owner's heirs. "Portrait of a Gentleman" was known to have been in New York in the 1950s. Attempts by the owner, Julius Priester, who had fled Vienna, to recover the artwork after the war were ...
#MuseumWeek Begins with Museums Dishing Secrets on Twitter
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2015
Some 2,200 museums, galleries and cultural institutions from over 64 countries are now taking part in the second annual #MuseumWeek on Twitter. The cyber celebration is designed to engage global audiences over seven themed days. Monday's theme was #SecretsMW. The Met mysteriously ...
Andy Warhol Museum Abandons Plans for New York Outpost
Post Gazette / March 22nd, 2015
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum has dropped plans for a satellite location in New York City. A new 10,000-square-foot space was to showcase works from the museum's collection as part of a 6-acre development on the Lower East Side in Seward Park. “The Andy Warhol Museum, which had been ...
CM Russell's 'For Supremacy' Wrangles $1.5M at Auction
Great Falls Tribune / March 22nd, 2015
Western Art Week ended with an auction to benefit the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, on Saturday. The Russell brought a total of just over $5.6 million, led by 3 three works by Western artist Charles M. Russell — two oils and a bronze — that sold for a combined $2.85 ...
5 Theories About the Gardner Museum Heist Mystery
Gizmodo / March 18th, 2015
Twenty-five years ago, news broke of the biggest art theft in history. Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was missing major artworks, taken in the middle of the night by two men disguised as Boston police. It was a stunning loss. The FBI says the two men suspected of actually swiping ...
Tourists Killed in Shooting Attack on Tunisian Museum
AP / March 18th, 2015
A shooting attack Wednesday at the site of Tunisia's largest museum ended with 21 people killed, including 17 tourists. Two of those killed were gunmen after a firefight with security forces. The dead tourists came from Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain, said officials. Some may have been ...
Surreal Attractions at Art Basel Hong Kong
CNN / March 17th, 2015
Crowds thronged an eerily life-like nude sculpture by Australian artist Sam Jinks at Art Basel Hong Kong, which ended March 17. Tens of thousands of visitors came to browse the booths of 233 worldwide galleries, half hailing from Asia. Other works blurring the lines of real and unreal ...
Museum Secrets Exposed in Twitter's #MuseumWeek Return
ArtfixDaily / March 17th, 2015
Coming up, #MuseumWeek will bombard the Twittersphere with art, antiques, and history factoids, tidbits, and surprises from March 23-29. This second edition (first time in the U.S.) of the weeklong celebration has over 1,400 museums and collections from 55 countries already signed up ...