Police say they’ve arrested two men in connection with the suspected robbery, but are still looking for two more. ADVERTISEMENT Police in the Dutch city of Maastricht have arrested two men after a suspected robbery at a prestigious art fair was caught on camera. Two other suspects are still on the run. The drama unfolded
28 June 2022 Image caption, A picture taken after the raid showed the damage caused to the display cases Two men have been arrested after a gang of robbers smashed glass display cases at a European fine art fair in the Dutch city of Maastricht. In a brazen raid on the Tefaf art fair, one
On Tuesday morning, Marian Bies-de Wolf was working at TEFAF, the world’s pre-eminent fine art and antiquities fairs, when she saw a group of men running through its corridors. It was a strange sight, she said in a telephone interview, since “nobody runs at TEFAF,” which is held annually in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Then things
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A man clad in the drab finery of a European art show attendee interrupted the staid hobnobbing of a premier gathering for buyers and sellers of fine art in the Netherlands on Tuesday, when he whipped out a sledgehammer, and with calm focus, smashed open
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, was the international art market’s first major casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also been one of the last to return to relative normalcy. On Friday, V.I.P.s attended the preview of the first in-person TEFAF Maastricht since March 2020, when the fair had
Tefaf (The European Fine Art Fair) in Maastricht is known as the pre-eminent fair for old masters and European works of art—and for its baroque fresh flower displays blossoming out of walls and overspilling banquettes placed strategically down its aisles. For the 35th edition, which opened on Friday instead of in its usual March slot,
Art Market Paul Laster Booths at the 2022 edition of TEFAF Maastricht. Image courtesy TEFAF. Touting itself as the world’s leading art and antiques fair, The European Fine Art Fair—popularly known as TEFAF—delivers on its branding by consistently offering world-class works, and this year is no exception. Presenting some 7,000 years of art, the 2022
BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels runs through June 26. Photo: © Fabrice Debatty June is a bumper month in this year’s European art fair calendar. As Art Basel was in full swing last week, BRAFA opened in Brussels, just a few days ahead of TEFAF Maastricht. With BRAFA (through 26 June) exceptionally sandwiched between Europe’s
Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso (Surfaces),Vik Muniz, presented by Ben Brown Fine Arts Hatched in 2022, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s recasting of Pablo Picasso’s famed 1907 oil painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, is among TEFAF Maastricht’s newest works on display. The colorful mixed-media creation is an intricately layered exploration of the original. Untitled (La Magie du Hasard)
The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) prides itself on promising the collectors a 7,000-year span of art history throughout its aisles—which leaves room for occasional revelations in some of the stands. Such will be the case in the fair’s upcoming 35th Maastricht edition, where the New York-based gallery Christopher Bishop Fine Art will unveil late