The closing of the 37th edition of TEFAF Maastricht last night was met with consensus among exhibitors: the fair, after the Covid years, was reborn, and during its eight days of opening (March 8 to 14: read our report here), nearly 50,000 visitors ga...
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The European Fine Art Fair, TEFAF, a near-legendary annual event where everything takes on out-of-the-ordinary proportions, from the quantity of exhibitors to the turnout of the public to the mind-boggling bargaining figures. The numbers are impressi...
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Going up for auction on Wednesday, April 24, at the British house Dreweatts, is the collection of Count Manfredi della Gherardesca (1961 - 2022), a celebrated interior designer, collector, art dealer, and curator who passed away in 2022. The sale, ti...
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Returning by train from Kiev to PrzemyĆl and then on to Krakow, on a journey of more than fifteen hours overnight, I keep looking at the Air Raid Alert Map site that shows in real time the regions under risk of attack. It almost seems as if the red ...
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Imagine a museum that is easy to understand, engaging for you and yours, requiring no specialized skills to interact with objects and content. Imagine a museum where you would feel comfortable, where you could find answers to varied questions that ar...
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Over 50,000 visitors, shared satisfaction, good feedback in terms of sales: the 50th anniversary edition of Arte Fiera in Bologna turned out to be one of the best in recent years. Confirmed, after last year's return, in the traditional venue of Bolog...
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Off to the 50th anniversary edition of Arte Fiera. The Bologna exhibition-market opened to the public today after a preview reserved for press and "VIPs," and celebrates an important anniversary this year. 171 galleries, a Main Section divided betwee...
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The 50th anniversary edition of Arte Fiera kicks off in Bologna . It was 1974 when Bologna's modern and contemporary art fair first opened to the public: today it is the longest-running fair in Italy and enjoys excellent health. Indeed: the 50th edit...
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Correction, contraction, normalization. Like a "tik tok tak" we scan the three downward magic words of the 2023 art market. Three key terms repeated in a machinelike fashion and reproduced as a mantra whenever there was a need to draw conclusions aft...
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For Giorgio Macchi, sit tibi terra levis
For some months now in Bologna there has been a fear that the Garisenda municipal tower, one of the symbols of the city, may collapse. This is a complex and serious problem about which there are many things t...
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"Everything important I have ever done could fit in a small suitcase," declared Marcel Duchamp (Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp; Blainville-Crevon, 1887 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968). In fact, between 1935 and 1941 the artist worked on a particular project ...
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The Verona Chapter Library Foundation, established in 2019 to ferry into the future the oldest library in the world still in activity (documented with certainty since the year 517 A.D.), is developing a complex and multifaceted project that sees mill...
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Everyone seeks to be well: yearning for emotional and social well-being is a thought that belongs to every human being. The aspiration to improve the conditions of one's existence, the ambition for a prestigious professional career and an increase in...
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A fifth edition of Amart is truly top-notch. The Milan antiques fair-market, held this year at the Museo della Permanente from Nov. 8 to 12, aims to become a landmark event for enthusiasts and collectors from Italy and beyond, who at the exhibition o...
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What are the best booths at Artissima? Turin's contemporary art fair, scheduled for November 3 to 5, is preparing for the weekend, during which the Oval will be stormed by the public who will enter to see the best of international contemporary art pr...
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Kicking off the 30th edition of Artissima: from Nov. 2-5, Turin 's contemporary art fair will draw thousands of visitors to the city. This year's theme is Relations of Care, a concept developed in a recent essay by Brazilian anthropologist Renzo Tadd...
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