TEFAF Meet the Expert

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Taiwan-born Chinese lyricist and producer Yao Chien opens up about his new-found interest in Old Master paintings that began with books.

Poet James Fenton explores the little-known field of Hafner ware as an area of collecting, after rejecting traditional collecting areas such as stamps and medals.

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.

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.

Anna Somers Cocks OBE reports on art and life from Turin, where she was sequestered for some time in Spring 2020.

Gary Schwartz recalls an emotional journey to the Isle of Bute.

John Spike recalls dining with one of the greatest collectors of Italian Still Life paintings, Silvano Lodi.

An important retrospective of the Florentine Renaissance master Fra Angelico that focuses on the decade of 1420-30. It takes place at the Museo del Prado in Madrid between 28 May – 15 Sept 2019.