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
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
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
Courtesy TEFAF The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) has announced the galleries that will take part in its upcoming 2023 edition in its home base of Maastricht, the Netherlands, where the event is scheduled to take place from March 11 to March 19, with two preview days beginning March 9. With objects on offer from
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) has announced the galleries that will take part in its upcoming 2023 edition in its home base of Maastricht, the Netherlands, where the event is scheduled to take place from March 11 to March 19, with two preview days beginning March 9. With objects on offer from across 7,000
Hot off the heels of Paris+ par Art Basel, the first edition of Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale opened in the art market’s city of the moment yesterday (until 13 November). The fair is as a combination of the two formerly distinct shows—Fine Arts Paris and the antiques and arts fair La Biennale—and is
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
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
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
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,