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Art-a-Palooza

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trying to quantify the bounty and breadth of the European Fine Art Fair, commonly known as TEFAF, brings to mind the song “Tschaikowsky (and other Russians)”, a pitter-patter bullet-fast song by Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill, first performed by Danny Kaye in the 1941 musical Lady in the Dark….

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Sotheby’s Reports Blockbuster Sales of $5.8 Billion for 2011

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Although enjoying a recent winning streak, equities have hardly been a safe haven (let alone a moneymaker) for more years than most investors care to count. Let’s not broach real estate.

So it comes as no surprise that big money continues to pour into art. Yesterday Sotheby’s, the publicly…

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BRAFA, Belgium and the Year’s First Major International Fair

Posted 3 months ago

The byword for Belgium is eclecticism, an artful predisposition underscored last month at the 57th Brussels Antiques and Fine Arts Fair (BRAFA, January 21-29). Walking down the fair’s three main aisles, past the stands of 122 dealers, 44,096 visitors traveled hundreds of yards of floor space…

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