August 14, 2024
European Fine art

TEFAF Is Coming to New York’s Park Avenue Armory

Art Fairs The two-part fair will begin this year. Cait Munro February 3, 2016 Inside the Park Avenue Armory. Courtesy of the Park Avenue Armory. New York may not need another art fair, but another art fair it shall get. The New York Times reports that TEFAF Maastricht, Europe’s most prestigious fair, will arrive in Manhattan as

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European Fine art

Maastricht Art Fair Widens Its Reach, to New York

LONDON — Tefaf Maastricht, Europe’s biggest and most prestigious fair devoted to art, antiques and design, is expanding into New York. The Netherlands-based event, organized by dealers under the umbrella of the European Fine Art Foundation, a nonprofit body, is collaborating with the New York art advisers Artvest Partners to hold two annual fairs at

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European Artists

Who Were the Most Expensive European Artists at Auction in 2015?

European artists enjoyed a record-breaking year at auction in 2015.Photo: Yahoo News The global art market remained strong and buoyant in 2015. Boosted by record-shattering auction sales and new buyers from emerging markets, it has been an exciting year for auction houses, dealers, and collectors. According to data from artnet’s Price Database, European artists have had an

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European Fine art

TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair, Invests in American Museums

Michel Witmercourtesy photo American art expert, Michel Cox Witmer, spearheads unique grant making program. In an unprecedented move, ten American museums have been awarded grants from The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF).  TEFAF’s new grants program is the brainchild of art collector Michel Cox Witmer, who serves on TEFAF’s board. These TEFAF grants mark a

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European Fine art

Purchasing Fine Art Is Increasingly Just a Click Away

Since the dawn of the web, companies have tried — and mostly failed — to sell fine art online. In 1999, for example, eBay bought Butterfield & Butterfield, one of the largest traditional auction houses, for $260 million, promising to use technology to bring fine art to the masses. Three years later, finding Internet users

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European Fine art

Vienna Looks East for Fine Art

“It’s not enough to have good artists or ambitious galleries,” said Annamaria Molnar, a gallery owner in Budapest, explaining that Vienna provided a stronger cultural environment that could attract international collectors. She came to the fair with a curated selection of work by emerging Hungarian artists who explore how humans recede in urban landscapes. Her

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European Fine art

Artist Kehinde Wiley Mixes Modern Figures With Old European Art Traditions : NPR

NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Wiley about his latest exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, “A New Republic.” This story originally aired on May 22, 2015, on All Things Considered. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And the first time I saw a Kehinde Wiley painting was out of the corner of my eye. I saw this blood red

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European Fine art

Review: European Edge/Berlanga Fine Art

Jan Saudek. “Ilary Make Up,” 1983 RECOMMENDED For the inaugural exhibition at his new photography gallery, Paul Berlanga has put together works of five leading European modernists: Lucien Clergue, György Kepes, Jan Saudek, Petra Skoupilová and Rutger ten Broeke, all in black and white, with the addition in Saudek’s case of subtle coloring. The “edge” referred

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European Fine art

When the Fine Art Market Goes Online

A new collaborative live auction platform, ebay.com/sothebys, will give eBay’s enormous base of buyers the chance to browse and bid at Sotheby’s, beginning with an April 1 auction of photographs, followed by a sale of New York-themed material on April 2. Most of the lots at both events are estimated at under $20,000, though the

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European Fine art

The Striking Parallel Between Fine Art and Real Life

Art reflects life, and it turns out that reflection doesn’t stop with paint on canvas or figures carved out of stone…it continues right down to the ledger books and bills of sale – to economics. Nowhere is that parallel more startling than a glimpse at the fourth annual Art Market Report, an annual survey of

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