The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) was founded in 2021 as a member institution of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and incorporates three departments: Artpool Art Research Center, the Research Department, and the Archive and Documentation Center. KEMKI initiates and implements long-term research projects focusing on 20th century and contemporary art
TEFAF New York 2024 is the American edition of Europe’s leading fine art antiques fair, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF). Many of the antiques are museum-quality. You can learn a lot by talking with the dealers. The people watching is great. It’s very Upper East Side. 10th TEFAF New York 2024 TEFAF New York
The Old Masters – Paintings & Sculptures sales in Paris and online achieved a result close to €10m, a record for Old Masters at Christie’s in Paris The sales featured a selection of European works spanning more than six hundred years, from the 13th to the 19th century. A variety of works for a wide
Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense of humor. One evening while wasting time on the addictive social media platform, I came across a meme of a
After two years of disruptions that led to virtual versions of its events, the European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, will make a comeback with a New York fair May 6-10 in the Park Avenue Armory. It will be the first in-person TEFAF fair since an early March 2020 event that was held in
Mintus, the new online, art investment platform offers a new way to buy shares and invest in exceptional contemporary art opening up the annual $65bn art market The first artworks available are iconic paintings by Andy Warhol and George Condo, with more pieces by established and emerging artists to follow Discover more: www.mintus.com LONDON, April
In one video, Clare Brown pretends to be a scholar teaching about Paul Delaroche’s “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” (1833). (via Wikimedia Commons) TikTok creator Clare Brown is flipping the art historical narrative. In her viral video “If Europeans were the cultural others: Art Edition,” she acts the part of a scholar explaining Paul
From Scratch at Peter Freeman Inc., which features five Eastern European artists, highlights a common desire among the artists that “art should proceed from the basic, elemental, and essential,” as the press release states, while still reflecting on the aesthetic and sociopolitical issues of their geographical and historical contexts. Organized by Croatian art critic and
In 2020, the Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF bought a Damien Hirst print for $30,000 and cut out each of its 88 spots, selling them for $480 apiece. It then auctioned off the leftover paper, retitled “88 Holes,” for more than $260,000. While cutting up and selling pieces of works of art remains the stuff of
Knowing where to start with investing in art is much like staring at a blank canvas. Where to begin? What colours, compositions, subjects? The world of creative investments is, after all, an incredibly subjective one; a market propelled by value judgements. Here, you will be capitalising on matters of the heart as much as of