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Spend 11 Minutes at the Eames House With This 1955 Short Film Made by the Designer Couple
ArtfixDaily / May 5th, 2020
A landmark of mid-century modernist architecture, the Eames House in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles is not open to visitors right now, but can be toured anytime with a short film made by the homeowners themselves—designers Ray and Charles Eames. Eames House, also called Case Study ...
LA Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Wins Pulitzer Prize
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2020
For his analysis of Los Angeles County Museum of Art's redesign plans, Los Angeles Times’s art critic Christopher Knight has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Few awards have gone to art critics in the past 50 years of journalism's top prize, which honored New York's Jerry Saltz ...
40 Million People Soak In #MuseumSunshine With a Two Week Pattern of Warm Artworks
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2020
On April 21, the New-York Historical Society and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., partnered "to brighten social media feeds" by sharing sunny artworks with people during the dark days of coronavirus stay-at-home orders. Within just over a week, some 3,000 users ...
Olana Reveals a Surprise for Everyone on the 194th Birthday of Artist Frederic Edwin Church
ArtfixDaily / May 4th, 2020
“Olana is the monument of Emerson’s, Thoreau’s, and Whitman’s America.” - David Huntington, the visionary art historian who led the charge to save Olana from destruction in the 1960s This May 4th marked the 194th birthday of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), America's seminal landscape ...
View the Entire $100 Million Gift of Artworks to the Cleveland Museum of Art in March
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2020
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in March received a gift and promised gift of more than 100 Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern European and American paintings, drawings, and prints; Chinese and Japanese ceramics; and other works of art from the collection of Clevelanders Joseph P. ...
Step Inside the Smithsonian Exhibition Revealing One Prussian Explorer’s Profound Impact on American Identity
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2020
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture is the first exhibition to examine Humboldt’s impact on five spheres of American cultural development: the visual arts, sciences, literature, politics and exploration, between 1804 and 1903. The exhibition was installed at the ...
Antiques Dealers' Association Online Show a Success Driven By New Client Sales
ArtfixDaily / May 1st, 2020
The eighth edition of the Antiques Dealers' Association (ADA) online show was a resounding success. Before opening on April 24th, 200 visitors were already in the website's 'waiting room,' and another 200 visitors arrived within the first two minutes of being live. All were eager to shop more ...
AAMD Relaxes Rules for Museums to Sell Art
Washington Post / April 30th, 2020
In mid-April, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) relaxed guidelines for museums in response to financial hardships brought on by closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The AAMD stated that for two years, the association "will refrain from censuring or sanctioning any museum—or ...
Major Monet Exhibition Will Reopen in Germany with New Protective Measures for Museum Visitors
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2020
Following guidelines set by the Brandenburg Museum Association, Museum Barberini in Potsdam will reopen on May 6, after two months of temporary closure due to COVID-19 precautions in Germany. Pre-booked tickets for the museum's Monet exhibition remain valid, and tickets will be available online, ...
Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into the $80 Million Knoedler Art Scandal
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2020
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, a new documentary, spins the real-life tale of con artists, a forger, a prominent art gallery, art experts, and top collectors involved in one of the biggest U.S. art crimes ever. If it seemed stranger than fiction when the news broke, the ...
Join Degas at the Opéra With This Virtual Tour of the National Gallery Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / April 28th, 2020
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is celebrated as the premier painter of dancers, a subject that dominated his art for nearly four decades. Degas's renowned images of the Paris Opéra are among the most sophisticated and visually compelling works he created. Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Paris ...
5 Beautiful and Practical Artisan-Made Gifts from Museum Shops for Mother's Day
ArtfixDaily / April 27th, 2020
{{image}} In a win-win shopping effort, support non-profit museums and artists today while delighting mom with an artful, purposeful purchase. Museum shops are offering plenty of home wares, puzzles, books, clothing, home office supplies and more options for Mother's Day online ...
Pets Rule in People's Epic Artwork Recreations During Lockdown
ArtfixDaily / April 26th, 2020
Quarantined people are enlisting their pets in the still-trending social media challenge to recreate art masterpeices with everyday objects (and household members) at home. As the weeks are drawing into months of stay-at-home orders, people are finding plenty of ways to stage their animal ...
Send Edward Hopper Paintings to All Your Friends With These Maine Bicentennial Stamps from USPS
ArtfixDaily / April 24th, 2020
Marking the 200th anniversary of Maine's statehood, a sheet of new stamps from the U.S. Postal Service features the iconic rocky shoreline of the Pine Tree State as painted by Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Hopper's 1914 oil Sea at Ogunquit (Whitney Museum of American Art) was painted during ...
'Contemporary Curated' Soars to $6.4 Million Marking Record for a Sotheby's Online Sale
ArtfixDaily / April 23rd, 2020
“Contemporary Curated”, a live auction in London turned online-only from April 14-21, fetched more than £5 million (US$6.4 million), a record total for an online sale at Sotheby’s. The sale was expected to bring between £3.4 million and £4.7 million total. Guest curated by fashion brand scion ...
Take a Ten-Minute Forest Bath on Earth Day With These Artworks From the NGA's 'True to Nature' Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / April 21st, 2020
While April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day celebrations, artists over centuries have trekked outdoors to create landscape sketches that capture the magnificence of nature and offer an enduring homage to Earth's beauty. An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early ...
William H. Gerdts, Giant in the Field of American Art, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2020
"What led Americans to value their own art? One could be very crass about it and say that when Americans could no longer afford the Monets and the Cézannes, then they started buying the Childe Hassams. Money was one factor...But there is also an element of national pride." - William H. Gerdts in ...
Figge Art Museum Wants You to Recreate Its Art in 'Getting Figge With It' Challenge
ArtfixDaily / April 20th, 2020
In the wake of the very popular Getty Challenge that invited people to post artwork re-creations on social media, the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, has launched the “Getting Figge With It” challenge. Like the Getty's challenge, which was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and ...
USPS Unveils New Stamps Featuring Artist Ruth Asawa's Signature Sculptures
ArtfixDaily / April 19th, 2020
The United States Postal Service has revealed a forthcoming stamp design for 2020 featuring the undulating mesh wire sculptures of pioneering Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Each pane includes 20 stamps, with two each of 10 designs, along with a photograph of Asawa taken ...
Take a Peek at Isabella Stewart Gardner's Bright Birthday Tradition at Her Museum
ArtfixDaily / April 15th, 2020
Since 1904, a vibrant display of nasturtiums has marked Isabella Stewart Gardner's birthday in her eponymous museum's iconic courtyard in Boston. Get a glimpse... While the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is temporarily closed in response to COVID-19 concerns, the museum has shared a video ...