On Saturday, TEFAF New York opens at the Park Avenue Armory, bringing Europe’s biggest art fair to Manhattan for the first time. Run by a nonprofit, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), the eponymous event has been drawing crowds of 75,000 to Maastricht in the Netherlands since 1988. Now New Yorkers will have their own
A new exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, opens at London’s Royal Academy this weekend. It is the first major survey of the movement since 1959. Abstract expressionism is often considered the first artistic movement to shift the centre of Western art from Europe to the US, and more precisely New York. But what is it, and how
By Greg Bradsher NARA’s Assistant Chief, Archives II Texual Reference BranchThe Record, November 1997 During and after World War II the United States Government, in part, through the Safehaven Program to identify, recover, and restitute Nazi looted assets, expended considerable resources on the looted art issue. It was a big issue, given the fact that
It’s increasingly common for art museums to play host to comics exhibitions. But what do comics — and manga, in particular — have to teach us about traditional forms of western fine art? Jiro Taniguchi’s latest work, Guardians of the Louvre, offers an exquisite example of the use of manga to present and showcase other
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) has announced the lineup of exhibitors at its debut New York outing, to be organized in collaboration with ArtVest Partners. Major Old Masters and antiquities dealers such as Colnaghi (London and Madrid), Dickinson (London and New York), and Talabardon & Gautier (Paris) will bring their wares. Slated to take
Caldwell, N.J. – Caldwell University is pleased to announce that Art History Professor Jennifer Noonan is one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to participate in a special week-long seminar on Teaching Pre-Modern European Art in Context. The seminar on “Sight and Sound in Renaissance
This article is more than 7 years old. With the globalization of the art market, the number of art fairs has exploded and now every city wants to get in on the act, but is it positive for the industry? In recent times, the art market has witnessed a revolution in the way works are
During the 28 previous editions of The European Fine Art Fair in the Dutch town of Maastricht, its appeal has been straightforward. “It’s like the Met museum, but everything is for sale,” said Boris Vervoordt, a director of Axel Vervoordt, a gallery based in Belgium. The gallery is again among the 275 dealers showing their
MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands — The European Fine Art Fair, held on the outskirts of this historic Dutch city, has for almost three decades been the world’s pre-eminent commercial event devoted to pre-21st-century art and objects. But the dealer-organized fair, known as Tefaf, whose 29th edition opened on Thursday and runs through March 20, faces challenges,
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in the small Dutch town of Maastricht opened its doors for the 29th time on Friday with 35,000 works on display. Spanning 7,000 years of art history, the objects have been inspected by 170 experts and include an early, previously unknown painting by Dutch master Rembrandt from the 1620s