 Rushing towards technology As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the world, art dealers and gallerists have been rushing at breakneck speed towards technology. In parallel to the Tefaf antiques fair in Maastricht, which was supposed to...
Tefaf, Maastricht: a spectacular antiques fair through hell and high water
An air of bleakness The world is at a standstill and it seems as though the love of art is unable to change anything. China aside, the announcement of the temporary closure of museums in Italy, the cancellation of the Art Basel Hong Kong fair and the fair in Dubai at...
Arco Madrid: the whisper of a new “Movida” in the art market?
 Troubled times Coronavirus, various regions in quarantine, political upheaval and economic uncertainty… Do people still want to buy art in these troubled times? And yet it’s against this backdrop that the first large-scale fair of the year, Arco Madrid, has opened...
Fiac 2019: Paris the safe haven
Successful art fairs These days every successful contemporary art fair, from Miami to Hong Kong, takes place on a city-wide scale. La Fiac And this week that point is being made by the Fiac, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, which is held between 17 and 20...
ART Basel Hong Kong: Asia (and not only China) is the new great platform for art
20% of the buyers are Asian Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses make out that at this point in time 20% of their buyers of modern and contemporary art are Asian. Consumption and creation Despite the fact that China is currently imposing strict foreign...
Tefaf Maastricht: from an English shield to a Basquiat, here’s the best of the world’s leading antiques fair
War Machine Tefaf in Maastricht, Holland, is a veritable war machine dedicated to the antiques trade. With its 279 participants and renowned for its excellent organization, it’s been running for 32 years and has recently spawned two sister fairs in New...
Art Basel Miami Beach: 2.5 billion euros worth of art on sale, mainly to the American continent
Contrary to what the president of the United States Donald Trump would have us believe, America is a multicultural country rich in diversity, particularly when it comes to art. As Adam Weinberg, director of the famous Whitney Museum dedicated to American art in New...
ART BASEL: WHEN THE VERY EXPENSIVE ART SELLS FOR EVEN MORE AND THE YOUNGER ART SUFFERS
"The art market of today sends very mixed messages.On the one hand, we continue to sell the most expensive, rarest and most important artworks.On the other hand, the paintings that are not so very rare, the works that trade at around 100 00 euros despite being made by...
Tefaf Maastricht: A nice stroll through the history of art and millions of dollars for Van Gogh, Murillo, Delaunay, Valentin de Boulogne…
Those who take great delight in the treasures of art history and its curiosities know that there is only one fair in the world that displays such an array of offerings: the Tefaf in Maastricht. 280 galleries with works ranging from antiquity to contemporary art...
The Armory Show: The great flood of conceptual French artists descends on New York
In terms of current artistic creation, ever since the 1970s France has been seen as a nation weighed down by its old traditions – a view particularly prevalent on the other side of the Atlantic – and therefore with little capacity for producing innovative artists. But...
1-54 Fair in Marrakesh: There is not just one but many African art markets
Contemporary African art. This concept, which is far too broad for such a large continent, seems at first glance to be as absurd as the concept of European art. What does German art have in common with Spanish art? About the same as art from South Africa has with art...
ARCO: In Spain the proliferating art venues are positive for the art market
People often talk about a Bilbao effect, which consists of linking the name of a prestigious museum (the Guggenheim) with an exceptional piece of architecture (by Frank Gehry) and thus changing the identity of a city (Bilbao). The new Louvre Abu Dhabi...