A band of stylishly dressed robbers pulled off a “terrifying” broad day heist at one of Europe’s top art fairs on Tuesday, which art insiders told Page Six had “people panicked.” The attack went down at the Netherlands-based megafair TEFAF — which New Yorkers know from its annual iteration at the Park Avenue Armory in
As the art world attempts to get the global art fair calendar back on track, it seems there are still some final pivots needed—after more than two years of adaptation and reshuffling—before a full return to IRL events. That is at least part of the reason why the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) chose to
Art Market Paul Laster Booths at the 2022 edition of TEFAF Maastricht. Image courtesy TEFAF. Touting itself as the world’s leading art and antiques fair, The European Fine Art Fair—popularly known as TEFAF—delivers on its branding by consistently offering world-class works, and this year is no exception. Presenting some 7,000 years of art, the 2022
Tefaf (The European Fine Art Fair) in Maastricht is known as the pre-eminent fair for old masters and European works of art—and for its baroque fresh flower displays blossoming out of walls and overspilling banquettes placed strategically down its aisles. For the 35th edition, which opened on Friday instead of in its usual March slot,
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, was the international art market’s first major casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also been one of the last to return to relative normalcy. On Friday, V.I.P.s attended the preview of the first in-person TEFAF Maastricht since March 2020, when the fair had
Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso (Surfaces),Vik Muniz, presented by Ben Brown Fine Arts Hatched in 2022, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s recasting of Pablo Picasso’s famed 1907 oil painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, is among TEFAF Maastricht’s newest works on display. The colorful mixed-media creation is an intricately layered exploration of the original. Untitled (La Magie du Hasard)
BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels runs through June 26. Photo: © Fabrice Debatty June is a bumper month in this year’s European art fair calendar. As Art Basel was in full swing last week, BRAFA opened in Brussels, just a few days ahead of TEFAF Maastricht. With BRAFA (through 26 June) exceptionally sandwiched between Europe’s
The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) prides itself on promising the collectors a 7,000-year span of art history throughout its aisles—which leaves room for occasional revelations in some of the stands. Such will be the case in the fair’s upcoming 35th Maastricht edition, where the New York-based gallery Christopher Bishop Fine Art will unveil late
The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht is a one-stop shop for treasures from the past. Under its vast roof, you can find Greek pots and Egyptian statuettes, Dutch genre paintings and French commodes. For much of its 35-year history, however, it has not been the go-to place for contemporary art. Now, contemporary galleries are
The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, has a fervently devoted collector base. With the latest edition of the event in Maastricht, the Netherlands, scheduled for June 25-30, buyers are looking forward to seeing objects they cannot find anywhere else. The anticipation may be heightened by the fact that the last in-person edition of