TEFAF Maastricht 2023

A report on the Old Master paintings market in 2022 – what sold well and what the world’s first billion dollar auction tell us about collecting old masters.

A concert set to the hours of the day by Ensemble Astrea.

Jessi Jezewska Stevens on the energy crisis: a brief history of fire and sin.

Daughter of art dealer Richard L. Feigen speaks about the thrills and demands of her formative experience.

Alain Goldrach on the necessity and dangers of cleaning a painting.

An extended topological survey by Jessi Jezewska Stevens.

A gilded impression of Venice by Katy Kelleher.

Getting beneath the surface of Old Master paintings in the studio of Karen Thomas.

‘295’ and other vignettes of Aso O. Tavitian (1940-2020) recollected by David Bull.

Friedrich’s moonlit seascape and other lessons of the sea observed in Hamburg by Jessi Jezewska Stevens.

Theatermaker Elfie Tromp takes us on a wondrous excursion into the new Boijmans Depot.

Keeping up the cultural agenda while we await the 35th edition of TEFAF.

The conceptual artist’s gravity-defying aerobes inspired Lizzie Marx to investigate their connections with the past.

In the wake of Fondation Beyeler’s centennial Goya exhibition, Olivier Berggruen reflects on the ambiguity of the artist’s work.

Wanwan Lei, co-founder of M_WOODS museum in Beijing reconnects with us to chat about their ongoing exhibition of Old Master drawings presented by the British Museum.

Our end-of-the-year market report digs deeper into the numbers behind some top selling Old Master paintings in 2021, as well as discoveries and museum acquisitions.

Nicholas Hall presents a fine Portrait of a Young Lady Holding a Cat, a seductive image painted by Antonio d’Ubertino Verdi, known as Bacchiacca, for this year’s TEFAF – Meet the Expert series.

Randy Reynolds chats with Tova Ossad about preparing for Brexit.

An original study on the market for anonymous 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings, sold between 1946-2015.

Observations from ‘The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570’, an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York between 26 June–11 Oct 2021.

Paul Rem selects Interior View of Niewe Kerk, a painting by Pieter Saenredam as one of the top highlights at TEFAF Maastricht 2020.

Scholar of black fashion and visual culture Jonathan M. Square responds to an unusual fragment of a painting by Annibale Carracci.

An exclusive interview with Jasper Sharp, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and designer Dani Mileo from Tom Postma Design on the making of the Beethoven Moves exhibition.

Ann Demeester, director of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, selects a painting exhibited by Nicholas Hall as one of the best 17th century paintings at TEFAF Maastricht 2019.

Curator Mitchell Merling examines prudery through American private collecting of four major erotic paintings that ended up as centerpieces of American museums.

Uli Sigg presents a witty analysis of what motivates a collector.

Wandering through the streets of Venice, Ben Street takes us to see a sublime Bellini altarpiece in situ.

West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century – an exhibition organized by the Museum Barberini Potsdam and Kunstmuseum Basel. Featuring 120 works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries, it examines the influence of globalization on the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Poet Richie Hofmann dedicates his new poem, Jupiter, to a painting by Abraham Janssens.

Sparked by memories of her visits to Le Marche in central Italy, V&A curator Emily Knight explores the Victorian fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings manifested in the museum’s collection.

Art historian Peter Humfrey reviews the much anticipated exhibition reuniting Titian’s six great mythological paintings for Philip II of Spain, which was forced to close three days after opening in March.

Snapshots from the exhibition of Dutch Caravaggists at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht from 15 Dec 2018 – 24 Mar 2019.

A symposium accompanying the exhibition Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art that took place at The Kitchen, New York.