In a first for TEFAF Maastricht, visitors to this year’s fair will encounter a booth dedicated entirely to Australia’s First Nations art. The show is set to feature over a dozen artists, working from the 1960s to present day, providing a broad picture of the contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement. …
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 …
Travelers know Maastricht, tucked along the southern border of the Netherlands, for its cobbled streets, stately 17th-century townhouses and the remnants of its fortifications, including bastions, towers and medieval gates. But some of the city’s most eye-catching locations are underground. These subterranean sites are among the roughly 500 quarries scattered …
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 …