Maastricht (Netherlands) (AFP) – One of the world’s largest art fairs opens its doors this weekend in the Netherlands, with organisers saying they have thrown a ring of steel around it after a brazen heist last year. Issued on: 10/03/2023 – 08:38 3 min From Saturday until March 19, visitors at The European Fine Art
Artwork by Rosalie Schweiker, 2023 The Beaux-Arts de Paris was founded in 1648, a relatively largescale form of art education for its time, and a model that was replicated and exported with European expansions around the world. Such august history provides both structure and restriction to much of what shapes art education throughout Europe, with
Crime Authorities have fingered the Pink Panther Gang from the Balkans, which has been stealing diamonds in broad daylight since 2001. Sarah Cascone March 6, 2023 Dutch police officers stand guard at the entrance of the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht following a jewelry heist. Armed robbers raided TEFAF on June 28, 2022, using
Courtesye TEFAF Maastricht A Balkan gang is suspected of being behind the theft of diamonds at last year’s edition of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the renowned Dutch art fair, the Limburg police department announced Friday. An international consortium of researchers and detectives working on the case believe the theft to be the work
A global pandemic, an attempted armed robbery and four leadership changes over three years—it’s fair to say that The European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf) has faced a few challenges of late. Nevertheless, with its Maastricht event returning to its usual springtime slot in the calendar (11-19 March) following a slimmed-down edition in June last year,
Designing a major art fair is like creating a temporary metropolis. It involves months of research, imagining and planning; weeks and weeks of building; and, above all, it requires a singular vision: to bring hundreds of presenters and thousands of attendees together. Based in Amsterdam, Tom Postma and his firm, Tom Postma Design, have designed
From March 11 through 19, a treasure trove of incredibly rare jewels can be explored at one of the world’s top art fairs, the European Fine Art Foundation’s TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands. Staying true to the standards set by previous TEFAF fairs, the jewels—along with Old Masters paintings, antique furniture, and more—were carefully curated
In theory, any collector who is willing to pay for a work of art is a good collector. But art dealers favor having a museum as a client, since an institutional purchase confers prestige on the art, as well as the gallery that sold it. TEFAF Maastricht has always prided itself on having groups of
The last thing the organizers of a venerable event like the European Fine Art Fair want to be associated with is a heist. But during last year’s fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, four men smashed a glass display case with a sledgehammer and took jewelry, the police said, in broad daylight as horrified collectors and
The only European fair dedicated to modern and contemporary art from MENA, MENART Fair provides a window into this rich, cultural landscape too often underrepresented in the West. More than 200 works of art, from Morocco to Iran, were on show. Chairs are overturned, shoes are abandoned on the carpet and a dining set is