August 6, 2024
European Fine art

TEFAF New York: Inside the Precise World of Art Fair Booth Design

Before 89 international art dealers showcase their exquisite wares inside a building that was once the playground for New York’s rich and famous, they get the chance to be children again. Their grown-up game? Designing strikingly unique booths out of tight uniform spaces for TEFAF New York, the European Fine Art Foundation fair at the

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In May, New York Commands the Art World’s Attention

Sometimes it seems as though the collectors, dealers, curators and advisers who power the art world will fly anywhere on the map to see a show or buy an artwork. Even a deadly pandemic could only delay the proliferation of events of a truly global market. In March, the art fair buffet included Frieze Los

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Antiques dealer arrested over sale of looted 3,500-year-old Egyptian sculpture

An antiques dealer illegally sold a looted ancient Egyptian sculpture worth €190,000 ($202,000) using fake documents, police said. The Spanish gallery owner is alleged to have bought the artefact, which dates from 1450BC, from a company in Thailand, knowing it had been stolen. Spanish National Police said a Swiss gallery offering the sculpture for sale

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Antwerp Is Europe’s Effortlessly Cool Design Destination

When it opened in late 2022, the Botanic, housed inside a former medieval monastery, brought a new kind of luxury to Antwerp—and a deep sense of place, thanks to its centuries-old wood beams, chapel frescoes, and museum-quality artwork curated by expert Joost Declercq. Now it’s at the top of everyone’s list—whether for a martini at

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Stanić’s opus is inextricably linked with the greatest reaches of European fine art

From the opening of the exhibition, Photo: twitter.com/JakovMilatovic The impressive creative oeuvre of the painter Vojislav Voj Stanić represents the permanent value of Montenegrin culture and its unbreakable bond with the greatest reaches of European fine art, said the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović. A large retrospective exhibition of Stanić’s works was opened last night

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Art fair reports ‘record’ prices for Van Gogh and Picasso

Staff members hang a rare Vincent van Gogh painting, “Tete de paysanne a la coiffe blanche”, painted circa 1884, at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair. (AFP) The Hague: Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Van Gogh and works by Picasso and Kees van Dongen,

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Dutch Art Fair Reports ‘Record’ Prices For Van Gogh, Picasso

Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Van Gogh and works by Picasso and Kees van Dongen, fetched “record prices”. Although a total figure of sale for some of the world’s most sought-after artworks could not be given, organisers of The European Fine Art Fair

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European Fine art

Dutch art fair reports ‘record’ prices for Van Gogh, Picasso works

Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Vincent van Gogh and works by Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen, fetched “record prices”. Although a total figure of sale for some of the world’s most sought-after artworks could not be given, organisers of The European Fine

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European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht: Zenith of Art Fairs, Pharaoh’s Red Sea Folly, by Titian, Stars

In Maastricht, hopes are high that a rare cast of Rodin’s Thinker means thinking’s back in style. T he European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht is the zenith of art fairs in quality, prestige, and cachet. Starting on March 7 and continuing this week, 270 high-end dealers gathered to offer their best to a

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TEFAF opens its new edition with an art and antique fair

Robust bunches of Ten Kate-designed flowers lushly suspended from the ceiling, oysters brimming with savory aphrodisiac in each shuck, dramatic gazes of Renaissance martyrs ogling at collectors from hundreds of years-old canvases… Many ornate signs hinted at the return of art, design and antiques fair TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) to its birth city

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