Fair and Auction Report Card: September

With its centralized approach to governing, Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party, in power since the republic’s birth in 1963, has created an economic juggernaut. But can the city-state that forbids chewing gum create a premier arts marketplace and incubator?

Over the last decade the…

“It’s something to think about when you’re stuck in traffic.” So said Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden at this morning’s press conference inaugurating Metropolis II—his eye-popping fantastical collision of the fine and decorative arts, assemblage and, hey, urban planning thrown…

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” Oscar Wilde

March 30-April 3,Pavillon des Arts & Design, Tuileries, Esplanades des Feuillants, Paris.
It’s the 15th edition of what is primarily a decorative arts fair—one comprised of 79 blue-chip, mostly Parisian…

An 18th-century famille-rose porcelain vase worth more than its weight in gold. Read all about it.

Attention collectors, connoisseurs, tourists from Nebraska (from whence I hail), art history graduate students, and social climbers at all rungs: the aesthetic circus for adults, a.k.a., the International Fine Arts & Antiques Dealers Show (IFAADS), is coming to Manhattan October 22-28, its 65…

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The Rietveld Pavilion in the sculpture garden at the Kröller-Müller Museum re-opens October 14

In 1955, Gerrit Rietveld (1884-1964) designed a pavilion for the display of small sculptures at the Third International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnhem’s Sonsbeek Park. This…

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” Oscar Wilde

The London season traditionally revolves around flowers, horses and regattas. To these outdoor events, a trio of fine and decorative arts fairs now competes to be added. One is a long-established fair that has…

Little Mister Michael, my seal-point Siamese boy cat, is as determined as he is artistic-autistic (to all who’ve ever met the breed, transported almost certainly from another galaxy or dimension or at least from Mars, you understand).

A lover of catch—he can fetch and retrieve longer…