February 8, 2025

European Fine art

European Fine art

AI comes for the creative class – POLITICO

The job — annual salary $90,000-$100,000 — entails developing and testing “prompts,” the text that tells AI programs what to create. The ideal candidate would have an eclectic background, blending coding skills with creativity and, according to Addition’s CEO Paul Aaron, artistic sensibility.  Writing prompts has, in the view of many of its practitioners, become

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Small Town, Big Show | Business Jet Traveler

In March, the place to be for anyone seriously connected to the art world is a small, remote medieval town at the crossroads of the Netherlands, France, and Belgium. Maastricht—better known to the world at large as the site of the signing of the 1992 Treaty of European Union—is the home of the European Fine

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European & American Masters Triumph At Collector Fine Art’s First Annual Sale

Portrait of Margaretha de Geer (1585-1672), Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, topped the auction at $2.7 million. Review by Z.G. Burnett, Images Courtesy Collector Fine Art Auctions WARWICK, N.Y. – Collector Fine Art Auctions hosted more than 100 objects during its Fine European/American Paintings & Furniture auction on February 4, featuring lots from estates in Tuxedo

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5 best tuition-free universities in Europe for international students

With many options for travel, education and work, Europe is one of the most popular study abroad destinations.  But that’s not the only reason. Every year international students leave their home countries to study here as there are several tuition-free universities in Europe. While most tuition-free universities in Europe are catered towards students from European

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Display of 52 masterpieces 1st of its kind after COVID

Visitors look at a painting from UK’s National Gallery at the Shanghai Museum. Photo: Chen Xia/GT In the soft, warm light, a senior citizen gazes intently at Vincent van Gogh’s Long Grass with Butterflies hanging on the wall. Stepping away, a young woman carefully takes photos of the faces of the characters in Raphael’s The

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DUAL Europe names Francesca Giurato Underwriting Director, Fine Art

DUAL Europe has appointed Francesca Giurato  with the role of Underwriting Director, Fine Art, DUAL Europe. Giurato is based in Milan, Italy and brings a strong level of industry experience towards her new role. She previously worked at Chubb and then at AXA XL for 12 years, where she held the role of Underwriting Manager

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DUAL draws Chubb/AXA XL talent to build fine art hub across Europe

DUAL, the specialist underwriting arm of Howden Group Holdings, has tapped a former  Chubb and  AXA XL executive who has over 20 years’ industry experience with a remit to build a “strong regional hub” for the fine art business across Europe. It will be DUAL’s third hub in Europe after cyber and M&A. Francesca Giurato

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Tefaf appoints Bart Drenth as global managing director

The European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf), which owns and organises two of the world’s largest art fairs, Tefaf Maastricht and Tefaf New York, has appointed Bart Drenth in the newly created role of global managing director, effective 1 December. Since February, he has served as the company’s interim director, a position he took up after Tefaf’s

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American & European Works On Paper Top Material Culture’s Fine, Folk & Outsider Sale

Untitled acrylic relief on panel by Henryk Stanewski, signed and dated 1970, led the sale at $23,040 and almost quadrupled its high estimate ($3/6,000). Review by Z.G. Burnett, Photos Courtesy of Material Culture PHILADELPHIA – Material Culture’s Fine, Folk & Outsider auction took place on November 21, offering more than 500 lots from a diverse

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Climate change activists court outrage by defacing artwork in protests

Two climate activists smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and plexiglass case of a sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on April 27, the first instance of a climate-protest attack on artwork in the United States. A man and a woman in dark suits poured paint on their hands

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