Booth Shot of Ulrich Fielder featuring the Gerrit Rietveld Z Chairs. Courtesy of Ulrich Fielder Gallery There I was. In the booths of TEFAF—The European Fine Art Fair, for those uninitiated—the yearly event that lures the skinny-silk-suit-wearing, delicate cologne-scented collectors, the serious kind who neither want their names nor faces known by anyone other than
The fine art market continues to boom. It seems that every day, another auction record is set for “the highest price ever paid.” So what does that mean for the painting you bought to match your sofa a few years back? It may increase in worth, or it may be as salable as your kid’s
View of The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Holland. (Photo credit: S. Karabell) S. Karabell The Art Market Report, issued by The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) each year during its 10-day March event in Maastricht, Holland, is something of a bible for costs and trends in the world’s art market. So when, this
Artworks on sale at Maastricht’s TEFAF art fair The TEFAF in Maastricht is a pilgrimage site for wealthy art lovers from all over the world. Will this year’s fair be as successful as previous years? Image: TEFAF 2017 Once a year, the conference center in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands is transformed into
Analysis In a thriving international art business, there was a marked shift to private transactions. Artnet News March 4, 2017 Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen of Christie’s. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Global art sales went up, auction houses got squeezed, and Asian bidders took home an increasingly large piece of the art-market pie. That, at least, is the
Axel Vervoordt Gallery took over a historic room on the second floor of the Armory for TEFAF New York in 2016. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery. The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the Netherlands-based enterprise, has announced the exhibitor lineup for the first edition of its stateside spring fair. Having introduced the New York edition
There’s something for everyone as Cologne Fine Art, WIKAM, Art & Antique Hofburg and the Winter Art & Antiques Fair all open A diverse range of fairs catering to all tastes can be found in Europe this November. Running from 17–20 November, Cologne Fine Art presents 150 international exhibitors, offering everything from antiquities and Old
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
The German artist’s work, finally on show in London, is an uprooted reunion of everything strange in the supposedly familiar tale of western art history Die Forderung (2016), Neo Rauch. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London Earlier this year I visited ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands to see the town’s landmark exhibition about its most famous resident
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