Entering the second consecutive multi-fair week in the New York art trade’s May diary, it was reasonable to wonder whether the abundance (if not overabundance) of supply might undo any sense that the market has perhaps at least begun to stabilise. But the Thursday preview of The European Fine Art Foundation’s (Tefaf) expo in the
The European Fine Art Foundation is returning to the Park Avenue Armory for the 10th edition of its New York fair this week, featuring modern and contemporary art as well as high-end jewelry and antiquities. Most of the fair’s 90 exhibitors will be spread across the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall as well as the
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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