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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, April 7, 2010

North Carolina Museum of Art. Photo: Scott Frances

Six museum (re)openings keep art fresh this Spring
MSNBC - April 6th, 2010 18:42

New or newly expanded museums around the country this spring will showcase everything from Tiffany lamps to Wyeth paintings, as well as some cutting-edge new architecture to house it all. “Wyeth: An American Legacy, Treasures from the Farnsworth Art Museum” and Japanese woodblock prints are on view at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art which opened March 27 after two years of construction, a nine-month closure and $5.5 million in capital improvements. Debuting May 1 is the Virginia ...

Thaddeus Welch and his artist-wife Ludmilla. Photo: Santa Barbara Historical Museum

Bohemian Club's PR boosted landscape artist

By the time of his death in Santa Barbara in 1919, Thaddeus Welch was considered one of California’s finest landscape painters. He achieved this success despite the disapproval of ...

Ted Pillsbury. Photo: Heritage Auction Galleries

Ted Pillsbury left a legacy rich in art

The death last month of Edmund P. "Ted" Pillsbury, a major player on the American art museum scene, was a suicide, his family said Monday. An earlier statement said his March 25 ...

Liu Ye, Bright Road, achieved an artist record price at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on April 5.

Blue-chip Chinese contemporary art returns to red-hot

Asian art sales surged in Hong Kong early this week. Sotheby's sale of contemporary Asian art brought $18.7 million with Liu Ye's (b. 1964) "Bright Road" fetching $2.45 ...

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	The Art-Tickle ArtfixDaily Staff Brooklyn Museum appoints Richard Aste Curator of European Art Former Christie's specialist Richard Aste has been named as the new Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Currently, he is Associate Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto ... Read more

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	FIRST MAJOR EXHBITION OF SALVADOR DALÍ’S late work to be presented exclusively at High Museum of Art Release Date: 06 April 2010 Exhibition Provides Fresh Look at Dalí’s Work After 1940 and His Influence on Artists Such as Warhol, Lichtenstein and de Kooning. Salvador Dalí: The Late Work, August 7, 2010–January 9, 2011. The first major exhibition to reevaluate the last half of Salvador ... Read more

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