August 21, 2024
European Fine art

AI models like DALL-E 2 keep making art that looks way too European

In late September, OpenAI made its DALL-E 2 AI art generator widely available to the public, allowing anyone with a computer to make one of those striking, slightly bizarre images that seem to be floating around the internet more and more these days. DALL-E 2 is by no means the first AI art generator to

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston revamps its European galleries

James Anno, associate curator of European art, talks about The Madonna in Adoration of the Christ Child Surrounded by Angels, with God the Father, c. 1470-75, in the redesigned Old Master Galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in Houston.Brett Coomer/Staff photographer Visitors take in the redesigned Old Master Galleries

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STYLE Edit: Anna Hu’s debut at The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Maastricht – the Taiwan-born designer showcased dazzling art deco, flowers and music-themed high jewellery at the fine art fair

Anna Hu is certainly no stranger to the limelight. The Taiwan-born, US-based jewellery artist is famed worldwide for her spectacularly beautiful, mindblowingly intricate creations, the favourite of celebrities from Madonna, Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow, to Natalie Portman and Naomi Watts. But she’s equally well-known for repeatedly smashing the record for the highest price paid

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Dinosaur Bones and Rare Minerals Have Lured an International Jetset of Collectors Back to a Rebooted Masterpiece London

Guests Arrive at Masterpiece London 2022, Ben Fisher Photography, Courtesy Masterpiece London. Masterpiece London returned with a celebratory opening last week for its first IRL edition after two years of Covid-related hiatus. The fair, which is on view until July 6, has brought together 128 exhibitors who presented a vast range of fine art, antiquities,

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TEFAF Maastricht 2022 Highlights

Hundreds of private jets had begun streaming into the airport. More than 100,000 individual flowers had been delivered, as had the 11,000 oysters and 3,400 bottles of champagne that would be shucked and poured over the course of six days, keeping all the gathered UHNWIs—not to mention reps from the greatest arts institutions in the

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Smash-and-Grab Robbers Hit Booth at TEFAF: Watch the Video

Maastricht, Netherlands—Attendees and exhibitors at the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, Netherlands were temporarily evacuated Tuesday following an armed smash-and-grab robbery. According to Dutch police, around 11:30 a.m. local time, four men, unmasked, approached the showcases of British jeweler Symbolic & Chase, an antiques dealer specializing in 20th century European fine jewelry and

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European Fine Art Fair: Dutch drama as suspected robbery caught on camera

Police say they’ve arrested two men in connection with the suspected robbery, but are still looking for two more. ADVERTISEMENT Police in the Dutch city of Maastricht have arrested two men after a suspected robbery at a prestigious art fair was caught on camera.  Two other suspects are still on the run. The drama unfolded

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TEFAF robbery: Brazen heist caught on video amid global arts fair

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A man clad in the drab finery of a European art show attendee interrupted the staid hobnobbing of a premier gathering for buyers and sellers of fine art in the Netherlands on Tuesday, when he whipped out a sledgehammer, and with calm focus, smashed open

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Thieves Hit TEFAF Art Fair in Daylight Heist

On Tuesday morning, Marian Bies-de Wolf was working at TEFAF, the world’s pre-eminent fine art and antiquities fairs, when she saw a group of men running through its corridors. It was a strange sight, she said in a telephone interview, since “nobody runs at TEFAF,” which is held annually in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Then things

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Maastricht Tefaf raid: Brazen daylight attack targets art fair

28 June 2022 Image caption, A picture taken after the raid showed the damage caused to the display cases Two men have been arrested after a gang of robbers smashed glass display cases at a European fine art fair in the Dutch city of Maastricht. In a brazen raid on the Tefaf art fair, one

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