February 2019 Art News

Phoenix Art Museum has been named the recipient of a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation that provides core support for the upcoming exhibition Teresita Fernández: Elemental, scheduled to open in 2020.
Artist Mario Klingemann’s groundbreaking piece of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generates a never-ending real-time stream of original art.
This month, auction houses have a plethora of romantic items available for those looking for something unique for that special someone.
Gainsborough’s Family Album is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with the Princeton University Art Museum. Tracing the full arc of Gainsborough’s career through family portraiture, the exhibition draws from notable public and private collections from across Great Britain and the United States.
A key figure in the Parisian avant-garde including Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, Gauguin rejected traditional artistic hierarchies in Europe, identified as a self-styled “savage” and traveled extensively to the South Pacific on a romantic quest for a paradisiacal land far from the ills of urban life.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe. Long Light examines his remarkable artistic range and adventurous experimentation over five decades, including his powerful representations of gay experience and living with AIDS.
Artist Liam Everett, one of SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Art Award winners, explains his use of furniture and loose materials to simultaneously obstruct and direct his approach to painting. He describes how these props force him to remain present—as if performing in a theatrical set—yet also distance him from the final product.
Opening next week in Los Angeles, Superfine! Art Fair is a new twist on the standard art fair. With the goal of making art collecting accessible to a new generation, transparency and reasonable prices are the name of the game. Unlike traditional art fairs, who live by the policy that if you ask to ask the price, you can’t afford it, all prices of the 2,000+ available works will be listed clearly, and 90% of the work on offer is priced below $5,000.
One of the most recognizable faces in all of art history is making her big debut at the Brooklyn Museum this weekend. The highly anticipated blockbuster exhibit Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving is the largest U.S. exhibition in ten years devoted to Frida Kahlo, and the first in the United States to have the privilege of displaying a collection of her personal possessions usually housed at the artist’s lifelong home in Mexico City, the Casa Azul (Blue House).
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce that it has acquired the esteemed collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. This world-class collection of art from the Spanish and Portuguese Americas is composed of 119 objects ranging from paintings and sculpture to furniture and silverwork—deepening the Blanton's extensive holdings of art and objects from Latin America.