Maastricht lights up as a global center for art lovers during Europe’s largest annual fair. This year, 20 percent more visitors came in the first few days, with the 4.6 million euro sale of  Van Gogh’s «Tête de Paysanne à la Coiffe Blanche» a key highlight. The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) closed its doors

Once a year, The European Fine Art Fair turns Maastricht, a small Dutch university town on the border of Belgium, into an art market cyclotron where highly enriched particles of global wealth are discharged into a powerful magnetic field of refined and concentrated world culture in hopes of achieving fusion. Perhaps a sign of straitened

Kunstkammer Geord Laue. Photo: Courtesy of TEFAF For two weeks every March, the medieval Dutch city of Maastricht becomes the center of the art world as droves of the globe’s most prominent art collectors make the annual pilgrimage to The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). At a tiny airport on the border of Germany and

Maastricht — 11 March 2024: TEFAF’s exhibitor community unveiled an impressive array of artworks as the celebrated Maastricht fair commenced its proceedings on Thursday, 7 March. Maintaining its venerated status as the premier fair for museum-quality works of art, TEFAF treated collectors to two previews, attracting thousands eager to explore and acquire 7,000 years of

Boasting 7,000 years of art history and requiring almost as many steps to traverse its aisles, The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht is far from downsizing. But with the fair’s 37th edition (until 14 March) shortened by three days compared with its predecessors, and featuring a new Focus section enabling galleries to delve

This spring, the international art scene is set alight with excitement and anticipation for TEFAF Maastricht! The New York Edition takes place in May, and now it’s time for the flagship event in Maastricht. Get tickets to see art from all over the world!  TEFAF Maastricht  TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) is widely recognised as

The difficulty of going to an art fair, as anyone who has attended more than one can tell you, is holding on to the artworks that grab you. This is especially true for contemporary art fairs where, more often than not, market trends influence the work that art dealers bring. If figuration or assemblage is

Founding her eponymous brand in 2007, high-jewellery designer Anna Hu now stands shoulder to shoulder with luxury houses like Cartier, Piaget and Boucheron, her name often uttered in the same breath as such brands. Over a sparkling 17-year career, Hu has gained recognition within the hallowed circles of auction houses, museums and art fairs across

Art lovers, you’re on the right continent: Europe has some of the best collections in the world, representing something in every medium and from every century. Often the galleries themselves are as much a draw as the art within them, with grand Italian palazzi, Second World War bunkers and venerable institutions such as the Prado

Opening in Maastricht today, The European Fine Art Fair will bring 7,000 years’ worth of art to the picturesque student city. Although TEFAF has been around for decades – the first edition took place in 1988 – this year’s event feels particularly buzzy, with a new generation of collectors flocking to Holland to see works by