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US vs China: who’s afraid of the trade war?
Hong Kong: breaking records and windows
Is a return to the Belgian art’s “Golden Age” possible?
Deloitte publishes 6th Art & Finance Report
Napoleon I for ever
Empire furniture
A style described by Gustave Flaubert as "imposing and diplomatic" in L’Éducation sentimentale.
District 13 Urban Art Fair: already an institution
The District 13 – International Art Fair returns to Drouot with a specialised selection of international galleries, establishing itself as a solid…
An outpost in Versailles for the Osenat auction house
Fontainebleau, Paris, and now Versailles: Jean-Pierre Osenat aims to bring the 17 th and 18 th centuries back into the limelight by setting up in the…
Masterpiece 2019: ending the season on a high note
Many exhibitors at Masterpiece, the last international fair before the summer break, are likely to go on holiday with a song in their hearts.
A break in the tribal art market
seems to be running out of steam. What lies behind this stagnation, and is it a cause for concern? A few possible answers.
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Talent has no age for Boucher
The flames of love that recall Versailles
Le Bal des Quat'z’Arts at the Carnavalet
"The beauty of the gesture" at Sèvres: Musée national de Céramique
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The artist residency Saint-Ange chooses its 2020 laureates
03 July 2020 - 13:17
Luxembourg & Dayan and Venus Over Manhattan galleries join forces to open new space in the Hamptons
03 July 2020 - 08:34
Guggenheim launches investigation into complaints of racism and mismanagement
03 July 2020 - 08:06
Renaissance portraits together again after 125 years
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Fairs
The virtual art fair takes its first tentative steps…
Cancelled because of Covid-19, the Art Basel Hong Kong fair took…
Market Trends
A new hurdle for the antiques market in New York
States have the right to act in preventing the sale of an object…
Glossary
S as in sulphide
Sulphide paperweights quietly appeared in the second half of the…
Buying Sotheby’s? What an odd idea!
On Monday 17 June, the art world awoke in a state of shock. Businessman Patrick Drahi, who until then had shown little interest in auction houses,…
Zhang Daqian: record-setting artist
Very few know his name in the West… but in 2016, sales of his paintings totted up a grand total of $355 million.
"Turquin Caravaggio": Not Toulouse, but Fifth Avenue
In the end, the "Turquin Caravaggio" was not put on sale at the Toulouse Corn Exchange on Thursday as planned. In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25…
Art loans: already in decline?
The flagship product of the second half of the 2010s, the art secured loan, has been increasingly beleaguered since the start of the year, raising…