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$246 Million Expansion of Art Gallery of New South Wales Bolsters Cultural Development of Sydney Harbor
ArtfixDaily / April 28th, 2022
Art Gallery of New South Wales is the city’s largest cultural development since the Sydney Opera House The transformation of the Art Gallery of New South Wales—the Sydney Modern Project—will open to the public on December 3, 2022, following a AU$344 million ($246 million) expansion. Located ...
Takashi Murakami, NFT Inventors and MoMA Among Webby Award Winners
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2022
The 26th annual Webby Awards, which recognize “excellence on the Internet,” took a new turn this year with a nod to NFT art. Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami was a winner "for his lifelong career creating experimental art, and for bringing his talents to the new frontier of NFT art, notably ...
Glimpse Figurative Art 'Redefined' in This Comprehensive Paula Rego Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
The prestigious Venice Biennale, on view now through November 27, features a preponderance of female artists in Cecilia Alemani's The Milk of Dreams central exhibition—among them, a rising star artist, the 87-year-old Paula Rego whose work is concurrently on view at Victoria Miro’s Venice gallery ...
Heatherwick Studios' Massive Tree Sculpture—Made With Living Trees—Will Soar Above Buckingham Palace in June
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2022
To celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee weekend, a giant tree sculpture will appear outside Buckingham Palace in London this June. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the 69-foot "Tree of Trees" will feature 350 indigenous British trees set in aluminum pots on a steel frame. The project pays ...
This Artist's House For Sale in the Hills of Tuscany Is a Draw
ArtfixDaily / April 25th, 2022
The sea is black, you are transparent, the sky is black you are deep, ciao - excerpt of a note from Lucio Fontana to Diana Baylon In the hills above Florence, a house-museum in which Abstract Expressionist artist Diana Baylon (1920-2013) lived and worked is for sale. Baylon set up her Tuscan ...
Top Awards at Venice Biennale Go to Sonia Boyce, Simone Leigh in Historic Firsts
ArtfixDaily / April 23rd, 2022
The 59th Venice Biennale's top awards went to two Black female artists — Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh — in a history-making ceremony on April 23. Each is the first Black woman to represent her country at the biannual event, and the awards are the first-ever for a Black woman artist in the ...
At Venice Biennale 2022, A Range From Simone Leigh's Powerful US Pavilion to a Live Address From the President of Ukraine
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2022
The 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia and its programs are underway (April 23 to November 27, 2022) with a host of noteworthy firsts for the world's premier contemporary art event. For the first time, the Biennale has a robust app with maps for in-person navigating and ...
'Designing Motherhood' Delves Into Material Culture of Birth at MassArt Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) announces its next exhibition, Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births, on view June 11 - December 18, 2022. Organized by a curatorial team that includes design historians, birth advocates, and medical and midwifery history experts, Designing ...
Rockefeller Center Installs 193 Art Flags Crowd-Sourced For Exhibition 'Only One Earth'
ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2022
Rockefeller Center has collaborated with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate Museum for its third annual The Flag Project. Each spring, this crowd-sourced art exhibition invites the public to submit art for consideration to be displayed on one of the 193 flagpoles that ...
In 'Smoke' Exhibition, Jason Jacques Gallery Partners with the Last Prisoner Project
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
Jason Jacques Gallery will present an upcoming exhibition in partnership with the Last Prisoner Project. Titled SMOKE, the exhibition centers on a 19th century smoking set made by the French jeweler Boucheron. The piece is a beautiful, somewhat rarefied, highly decorative, and yet functional ...
Christie’s Will Auction The Famed Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann
ArtfixDaily / April 6th, 2022
The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann heads to Christie's this May in New York City. Works from the collection will be sold across two live sales at Rockefeller Plaza during the Spring Marquee Week, beginning with a single-owner evening sale on Monday, May 9, 2022. While a total presale ...
Metaverse, Pandemic and Buddhist Themes Combine in Mongolian Artist's First Solo Exhibition in New York
ArtfixDaily / April 3rd, 2022
Sapar Contemporary has opened Moods in the Metaverse, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu’s first solo show in New York, through May 7, 2022. Mongol Zurag painting is a contemporary figurative style that is steeped in Mongolian cultural history. The flat, brightly colored pictorial style originated in the ...
Exhibition Guest Curated by Security Guards Opens at Baltimore Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2022
For the first time in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) history, the people who protect the art have selected the art. Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 current and former members of the museum’s security team, opens on Sunday, March 27, with approximately 25 ...
Art Market Soars to $65.1 Billion in 2021, According to Art Basel UBS Report
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2022
Last year saw a strong recovery of the art market with a gradual return to live sales and events that had previously closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, while online sales continued to grow, according to the sixth edition of The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. Written by cultural ...
MGM Resort's New Acquisitions Reshape Its Public Fine Art Collection
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2022
In October, MGM Resorts sold 11 works by Pablo Picasso, some decades-long fixtures in the casino restaurant, for a total of $108 million. Sotheby's conducted the sale on-site at the MGM Bellagio in Las Vegas, and while several works by Picasso remain in the collection, the resort entity now aims ...
'Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water' Exhibition Opens at Seattle Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 15th, 2022
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water (March 18–May 30, 2022), exploring the many ways artists around the world have engaged with the theme of water. The exhibition features works from SAM’s collection and three local lenders, with over 80 works of art ...
New Works Featured in First-Ever Major Exhibition of Urs Fischer in Latin America
ArtfixDaily / March 13th, 2022
From April 2 through September 18, Museo Jumex in Mexico City will present Urs Fischer: Lovers, a 20-year survey of one of the most internationally celebrated artists working today and the artist’s first solo show in Latin America. Organized by Museo Jumex with guest curator Francesco Bonami, Urs ...
Russian-Owned Phillips Auction House to Donate $7.7 Million to Ukrainian Red Cross Society
ArtfixDaily / March 3rd, 2022
Phillips auction house announced on the morning of March 3 that it would donate 100 percent of the buyer’s premium and vendor’s commission from its 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. At the end of the day, £5.8 million ($7.7 million) from the ...
Artists Turn Their Work Into Relief Funding for Ukraine
ArtfixDaily / March 3rd, 2022
Artists are using their art to make statements and raise funds as Russia's brutal attack on Ukraine intensifies. “There is no place for art when civilians are dying under the fire of missiles, when citizens of Ukraine are hiding in shelters, when Russian protesters are getting silenced,” wrote ...
First Museum Retrospective of Painter Matthew Wong Opens at Dallas Museum of Art This Fall
ArtfixDaily / February 24th, 2022
The first museum retrospective and US museum exhibition devoted to the late painter Matthew Wong premieres this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art, the only museum that collected the artist’s work during his lifetime. Featuring approximately 60 paintings created by Wong during his short yet ...