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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Inside Robbig-Munchen (Booth 116), arguably the most elaborate at this year’s edition of The European Fine Art Fair. Contemporary Art, some of it barely dry, has gripped the attention of many young U.S. collectors, but the old money is being spent elsewhere. The European Fine Art Fair, a huge event that had been held in
The annual European Fine Art Fair, or Tefaf, in the cavernous Maastricht Exhibition and Conference Center, is a good place to check the values of that “elsewhere.” The fair is the world’s premiere commercial event devoted to pre-21st-century art and objects. Last year, it attracted 74,000 people and curators from the J. Paul Getty, Frick,