The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht describes itself as a fair that spans 7,000 years of art history. For a long time, those 7,000 years mainly encompassed pre-20th-century objects: Egyptian figurines, Roman busts, African masks and Rococo clocks. In the last decade, responding to a major shift in collecting …
In the art world, getting younger people to look at very old paintings and sculptures has proved challenging. How can a delicate Renaissance sculpture compete with the immediacy of artists posting on Instagram about work they’re doing right now? The art fair put on by the European Fine Art Foundation …
In 2018, the curator Catherine Taft began researching an exhibition on ecofeminism, assuming it would be a retrospective on a philosophy that had fallen out of fashion. Ecofeminism emerged from environmental, feminist, social justice and antinuclear activism in the 1970s. The movement resists traditional systems of patriarchy and capitalism that …
When more than 270 gallerists convene in Maastricht, the Netherlands, this month for the 38th edition of TEFAF, they will be greeted by a new managing director: Dominique Savelkoul, a seasoned Belgian arts administrator who took the helm in September. It’s her first time running an art fair and working …