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Traveling Exhibition 'Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives' Debuts at Joslyn Art Museum; 100 Highlights Illustrate New Book
ArtfixDaily / November 20th, 2020
In 2016, ConAgra Foods, Inc. (now Conagra Brands) donated nearly 600 Currier & Ives lithographs to Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Now home to one of the largest public collections of these popular and historically significant images, Joslyn has organized this exhibition that sheds new ...
One-Third of US Museums Are At Risk Of Permanent Closure, Survey Finds
ArtfixDaily / November 20th, 2020
Museum advocates have written over 55,000 letters to elected officials for aid Several months into the pandemic, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has reported museums are still losing millions while operating on slim reserves, leaving about one-third of all institutions at risk of ...
3 Suspects Arrested in Berlin For Dresden Green Vault Heist
Observer / November 17th, 2020
New reports say that 3 people have been arrested for a possible connection to the shocking 2019 heist of jewelry and cultural artifacts from the Green Vault at the Royal Palace of Dresden. The massive heist last November occurred after an electrical fire was set that cut power to the palace. ...
Traveling Exhibition 'Majolica Mania' Is Coming to Museums in 2021
ArtfixDaily / November 17th, 2020
Postponed by the pandemic, a major exhibition of majolica is rescheduled to go on view at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, in 2021 and beyond. (Visit the ...
Crystal Bridges Announces $17.5M Gift from Windgate Foundation to Champion American Craft
ArtfixDaily / November 11th, 2020
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has announced that Windgate Foundation has provided a $17.5 million gift to advance the field of craft through a dedicated position, research, programmatic support, as well as an acquisitions fund to bring craft objects into the museum’s permanent ...
Baltimore Museum of Art's Restrooms to Be Named For John Waters Following a Gift of 375 Artworks
ArtfixDaily / November 12th, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) last week announced a promised gift of approximately 375 works from John Waters’ fine art collection. The long-planned bequest is rich in photographs and works on paper with important examples by 125 artists, including Diane Arbus, Richard Artschwager, Thomas ...
'¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now' Unites Historic Civil Rights-Era Prints With Works by Contemporary Graphic Artists at the Smithsonian
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2020
Features More Than 100 Artworks From the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Leading Latinx Collection In the 1960s, Chicano activist artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking rooted in cultural expression and social justice movements that remains vital today. The exhibition “¡Printing ...
Take a Virtual Tour of 'Tiffany Glass: Painting With Color and Light'
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2020
Reynolda House Museum of American Arts’s fall exhibition (through Nov. 29), Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light, is a traveling show organized by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, NY. The exhibition will continue to The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY, in ...
Book Release: The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2020
Born wealthy, the Oxford-educated Rose Dugdale (b. 1941) turned to crime as she became involved with Irish Republicanism. Her radical ideals led Dugdale to mastermind a major art heist. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist, a new ...
Take a Peek At Highlights of MFA Boston's Captivating Cézanne Show
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2020
Cézanne: In and Out of Time (November 11, 2020–February 28, 2021) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), places 12 paintings by Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)—five from the MFA’s collection and seven from private collections—in dialogue with eight works by his peers and forebears, ...
Traveling Exhibition 'Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives' to Debut at Joslyn Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2020
In 2016, ConAgra Foods, Inc. donated nearly 600 Currier & Ives lithographs to Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Now home to one of the largest public collections of these popular and historically significant images, Joslyn has organized a traveling exhibition, on view at the Joslyn from ...
New York Collectors Gift $1 Million Jasper Johns Flags I Print to British Museum
Guardian / November 2nd, 2020
Jasper Johns's Flags I (1973), an iconic print by the American artist, has been gifted to the British Museum by New York-based collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield, reports the Guardian. The piece was exhibited in the British Museum's American Dream exhibition of 2017. It is one of the most ...
From Turmoil to Triumph, Baroque Artist Artemisia Gentileschi's Life Story Inspires TV Series
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
On the heels of a major monographic exhibition exploring the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654) will be a new television series from ViacomCBS studios. The series will begin filming next year following the popular exhibition on the Baroque artist at London's National Gallery (on view ...
Seriously Upbeat Artworks Are Standouts in the New TEFAF Online
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has launched TEFAF Online, running November 1-4, 2020, in a fresh format. This is TEFAF’s first virtual fair, which provides attendees with direct, live access to world-renowned dealers and their selection of vetted artworks. Reducing virtual fair fatigue, ...
Palm Springs Art Museum Sells Helen Frankenthaler Painting for $3.9 Million at Sotheby's
Desert Sun / October 29th, 2020
The Helen Frankenthaler painting "Carousel," donated to the Palm Springs Art Museum by the late interior designer Steve Chase, sold for $3.9 million Wednesday at a Sotheby's auction in New York, reports the Desert Sun. The deaccession of the gift was to cover "direct care" costs for the ...
The Postponed Philip Guston Show Will Open Earlier; Tate Curator Who Criticized Delay Suspended
New York Times / October 29th, 2020
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has said that the four year postponement of "Philip Guston Now" will instead be a two-year delay after an uproar, the New York Times reported. The exhibition will open in 2022, not 2024, as previously announced by the participating museums. The ...
Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró
ArtfixDaily / October 29th, 2020
For its final exhibition, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC) in Newport News, Virginia, will present Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró. On view from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, the exhibition will feature more than 60 prints by surrealist luminaries, who sought to tap into the unconscious ...
8 Leading Artists Create Flags Accompanied by Sound-Based Works in 'unFlagging' Series at Ballroom Marfa
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2020
This fall, Ballroom Marfa presents an outdoor exhibition from October 2, 2020 through January 21, 2021 that features new commissions from eight noted artists. Each artist has created a flag accompanied by a sound-based work that will be on view individually for two weeks, rotating through each ...
Major New Museum Exhibition Explores Spanish Influence on American Artists
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2020
The extensive impact of Spanish art and culture on American painters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is the focus of a new exhibition co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art. {{image}} Opening on February 12, 2021, in Norfolk, Virginia, ...
Dozens of Art Objects Vandalized in Mysterious Attacks at German Museums
NPR / October 21st, 2020
About 70 artifacts and art pieces were vandalized at several museums in Berlin earlier this month. Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, stone sculptures and 19th century paintings are among the works damaged wtih an oily substance on Oct. 3, according to Berlin police. The museums were open that ...