Phillips’ Overall Sales Up 25% to $708.8 Million in 2017
Auction Sales Gain 25% to $625.4 Million; Private Sales Increase 23% to $83.5 Million
20th Century & Contemporary Art Soars 32% Higher
Art News
Forty-five artists and collectives across nine disciplines receive $50,000 unrestricted awards
For Immediate Release (CHICAGO, January 16, 2018) - United States Artists (USA) is pleased to announce its 2018 USA Fellows. This year, 45 artists and collectives across nine creative disciplines will receive unrestricted $50,000 cash awards. The Fellowships honor their creative accomplishments and support their ongoing artistic and professional development, however the recipients choose to spend them.
DELAWARE ART MUSEUM’S HOTEL DU PONT COLLECTION NAMED AS 2017 ART CONSERVATION PROJECT GRANT RECIPIENT BY BANK OF AMERICA
Bank of America supports restoration of artworks by the Wyeth family, Frank Schoonover, and Edward Loper
WILMINGTON, DE (January 16, 2018) — The Delaware Art Museum will receive a grant from the 2017 Bank of America Art Conservation Project to conserve 13 works of art by notable American painters, including the Wyeth family, Frank Schoonover, and Edward Loper.
Events Include the Premiere of Two Newly Acquired Presidential Portraits, a Book Release and Other Presidents Day Festivities
January 16, 2018
Powerful Depiction of Picasso’s ‘Golden Muse’ Marie-Thérèse from 1937 – A Pivotal Year for the Artist – Emerges Onto the Market for First Time
Painted just months after Guernica & his Weeping Women
Gift/Purchase Comprised of Works by Well-known African American Artists of the Southeast, Including Thornton Dial, Ronald Lockett, and Lonnie Holley, and the Quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
Rhizome Awarded $1,000,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Next Phase of Development of Webrecorder Platform
Largest gift in Rhizome’s history will broaden versatility and impact of this innovative tool set, promising web archiving for all
The Brooklyn Museum is proud to present the first museum exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled. Created in 1982, a breakout year in Basquiat’s meteoric career, Untitled is emblematic of his early success and ranks among the artist’s most powerful paintings.
Vera Cruz, and Castle of San Juan D'Ulloa, by the British 19th century topographical painter Daniel Egerton, leads Bonhams Travel and Exploration Sale in London on 7 February. It is estimated at £200,000-300,000.
The painting has been in private hands since it was first exhibited at the Society of British Artists in the late 1830s, and has been owned by the same family for at least the last 120 years.
The Museum of Modern Art announces that it has received a major gift of 90 works of contemporary art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, significantly enhancing the Museum’s holdings of contemporary works by Latin American artists.
