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New Exhibition Celebrates Collaborations of French Brothers-Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
ArtfixDaily / October 28th, 2021
This fall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Circus: Bouroullec Designs, featuring the work of leading contemporary designers, the brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (b. France, 1971, and 1976). The title of the exhibition is inspired by their lively design sense and ...
Spooky Images Abound in the Traveling Exhibition 'Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art'
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Kentucky's Speed Art Museum welcomes Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), this major exhibition debuted at Toledo Museum of Art and travels to the Speed (on now until January 2, 2022) before ...
New York's ADAA Art Show Opens Next Week at Park Avenue Armory and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 27th, 2021
Members of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the nation’s foremost nonprofit organization of leading art dealers, return together this fall for The Art Show to showcase their dynamic programs—featuring more than 40 solo presentations, as well as an array of ...
Fine Arts Paris Returns to Carrousel du Louvre and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2021
Fine Arts Paris – the Paris-based specialist art fair dedicated to the fine arts from Antiquity to modern times – returns for a fifth edition in its emblematic venue, the Carrousel du Louvre, November 6-11. The premier destination for fine arts in Paris, the fair will once more bring together the ...
Art Dealer Andy Valmorbida Makes 'Extremely Unusual' Admissions In Alleged Fraud Case, Court Reports
The Age / October 25th, 2021
Melbourne-born art dealer Andrew (Andy) Valmorbida, scion of an Italian-imports family dynasty in Australia, reportedly admitted to fraud involving multimillion dollars in artwork last May. A judgment was recently published following the civil case in the offshore tax haven of Jersey, part of the ...
First-Ever Art Exhibition Held at Giza Pyramids Features AI Robot Artist
ArtfixDaily / October 25th, 2021
Through November 7, Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, takes part in a major contemporary art exhibition and sculpture trail at the great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. Titled Forever is Now, the exhibition represents the first time in the 4,500 year history of the ...
Dual Exhibitions in Vermont Consider Hiroshige and Japanese Printmaking Today
ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021
Southern Vermont Arts Center presents Japanese Woodblock Prints: Then and Now -- two complimentary Mokuhanga exhibitions in Manchester, Vermont, this winter. Hiroshige and the Changing Japanese Landscape, opening Saturday, November 20 in SVAC’s Elizabeth de C. Wilson, is a presentation of ...
Julie Green, Artist Known For Humanizing Death Row Inmates With 'Last Supper' Plates, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021
Artist Julie Green passed away this month after a cancer diagnosis. “Green, a wide-ranging artist whose paintings also examined gender roles, wrongful conviction, animal abuse and their own colorful life — from a childhood in Japan to a teaching post in Oregon — was 60 when they died Oct. 12 at ...
Created As a Private Catharsis, The Pictures of Boris Lurie Tell a Story of Survival in New Exhibition
ArtfixDaily / October 24th, 2021
Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try is on view now at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. This is a first-of-its-kind exhibition on the 20th century artist and Holocaust survivor and the Museum’s first contemporary art show. The exhibition is centered around ...
Norway's Massive Munch Museum Finally Opens to the Public
ArtfixDaily / October 21st, 2021
A decade in the making, a museum dedicated to one of Norway's most famous artists debuts this week. Oslo's new waterfront Munch museum—rebranded as MUNCH—is among the world's largest museums devoted to a single artist. MUNCH opens to the public on October 22, with tickets available from ...
Immersive Exhibition of Jeffrey Gibson Works Opens at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021
Outside Boston, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has opened the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE, on view through March 12, 2022. This exhibition concerns the intersections of four powerful words—INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE. The two outer terms suggest boundless ...
MFA Boston Reframes the American Experience in 'Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories'
ArtfixDaily / October 17th, 2021
Quilts are a democratic art. They provide a window into the lives of the many people who have made and used textiles, across geographic, political, social and economic contexts. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), from October 10, 2021 through January 17, 2022, Fabric of a Nation: ...
Skies Fill With Crowd-Pleasing Smoke in San Francisco, Thanks to Artist Judy Chicago
Mercury News / October 17th, 2021
In conjunction with Judy Chicago's popular retrospective (through January 9, 2022) at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the pioneering feminist artist launched a spectacular smoky rainbow display over Golden Gate Park on Saturday. Forever de Young, Chicago's complex, multicolored ...
Banksy's Shredded Painting Sells for Artist Record of $25.4 Million
NPR / October 14th, 2021
A Banksy painting that partially self-destructed on the auction block three years ago has sold again, for a record £18.5 million ($25.4 million). "Love is in the Bin," formerly titled "Girl with the Balloon," sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Art evening sale in London on Thursday to an ...
$100 Million Redesign of 1.3 Mile Section of L.A.'s Crenshaw Boulevard to Feature Major New Works by 100 Black Artists
ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2021
Destination Crenshaw, the $100 million public-private initiative to redesign 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard as an economically thriving business and cultural corridor for Black L.A., took a major step forward on Thursday, as the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission approved plans for the ...
Art Investment Platform Masterworks Is Now Valued at $1 Billion
TechCrunch / October 7th, 2021
Masterworks.io, a pioneering startup offering fractional investment in fine art, raised $110 million in Series A funding at a pre-money valuation north of $1 billion this week. The New York City-based platform reached unicorn valuation following funding from Left Lane Capital, with ...
Ben Grosser's 'Software for Less' Exhibition Takes On Big Tech Issues
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2021
Through October 23, arebyte Gallery in London presents Software for Less, an exhibition examining the cultural, social and political effects of software on contemporary society, by US artist Ben Grosser. Software for Less takes visitors on a journey through a pseudo tech exposition. Each work ...
Traveling Exhibition of Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art From Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection Debuts at Palmer Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / September 23rd, 2021
This fall the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opens Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. This major exhibition features the cosmopolitan, exuberant and subtly subversive work of 15 artists of Asian ...
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Opens to the Public Next Week
ArtfixDaily / September 22nd, 2021
An experience of the arts, sciences, artists, and social impact of moviemaking, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open its doors to the public on Thursday, September 30, 2021, following a dedication ceremony. Located in Los Angeles, the world capital of moviemaking, the new museum is the ...
Move Over Van Gogh, Here Comes a Frida Kahlo Immersive Experience
ArtfixDaily / September 21st, 2021
Vincent van Gogh immersive experiences have lately drawn millions of visitors worldwide to massive light-filled digital art projections. Recent van Gogh experiences (about 40 across the U.S. that are produced by competing companies) have lit up New York, San Francisco and beyond. “We just ...