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...
A double success story? The story might go like this: an English pop singer from a modest background becomes a global superstar and buys and supports visual artists, also from modest backgrounds, who found fame around the same time as him: the rather...
The pulse of the global artmarket You have to go to New York if you want to check the pulse of the global art market and encounter the broadest spectrum of artists there is. New York remains the undisputed epicentre of contemporary art market transactions, thanks to a...
Sharjah Do you know Sharjah? It’s a city in the United Arab Emirates that doesn’t get much media attention. While it may not be as bustling as Dubai with its ski run and flashy nightclubs, nor as moneyed as Abu Dhabi with its Louvre and its oil wells, Sharjah, a city...
The good Impressionnism The word “Impressionism” may be ringing in the ears of the twenty-first-century man like a deterrent. Some people no longer want the endless greenish landscapes of late Pissarros,even though the artist was the great theorist of the movement,...
Unique charm Amid the abundance of fairs springing up all over the world, Arco, which is held in Madrid until 3 March, stands out for having its own unique charm. Firstly because it takes place in this fun-loving capital and constitutes the largest national artistic...
Impressionnist and modern On 26 and 27 February in London, Sotheby’s and Christie’s will be presenting during the evening sales 126 impressionist and modern artworks with a total estimate of 290 million euros. These are the first significant sales of 2019 in this...
Vanished Leonardo After a little over a year in existence and with over a million visitors, the Louvre Abu Dhabi has shown itself to be a force to be reckoned with in the museum world. To do so it wasn’t necessary to acquire an overly restored Leonardo da Vinci...
About colonialism The issues surrounding African tribal art have never been so pressing. This is because as time has passed and awareness has grown, people have realized the extent of the damage inflicted by the colonial project on culture in these countries, once...
Environmentalism There was a time when environmentalism wasn’t really talked about, except in relation to a few dishevelled and clearsighted hippies sporting yellow badges with the slogan “Nuclear Power? No Thanks”. There was a time when housewives didn’t worry about...
First Bischofberger It’s the striking phenomenon marking the beginning of 2019. The Swiss peaks have literally been colonized by artistic activities. These may be commercial, aesthetic or intellectual in nature, but in any case they’re taking over the chicest...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMgYcPkLvs Much has been said about the influence of the Japanese on modern art, from Degas to Van Gogh, to the extent that this phenomenon even has a name: Japanism. Much less has been said about the influence of modern...