Some of the good news from TEFAF is all about the YSL effect. Like Christie’s acclaimed sale of the collection of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé, TEFAF is a virtual cabinet of curiosities where superlative antiques, rare objects of vertu, and antiquities have been selling well. Over one hundred dealers specializing in this …
Tiffany window in Pittsfield church illuminates White House commission
On the Tiffany Allen Memorial Window
The Little Mermaid, cultural ambassador
The Little Mermaid takes Shanghai
Old Masters Rule in Maastricht
Changing tides at the 22nd annual TEFAF
Late Gothic coffers
Late Gothic imagination was wed to sacred purpose in every particular of daily life
Asia Week in New York City, a to-do list
A list of alternative events and opportunities for enjoying Asian art and culture in New York this week
Queries: American musical clocks
The first musical clocks were invented in the Netherlands in the fourteenth century. Two hundred years later European royalty and aristocracy were commissioning them. At the palace of Versailles Marie Antoinette possessed a musical clock that played ten of her favorite tunes. (It was discovered at the palace in June 1914, two weeks before the start of World War I.) …
Collecting Zsolnay art pottery
A conversation with Dr. László Gyugyi
Maastricht and beyond
The 2009 European Fine Art Fair
Art at all costs
Budget cuts and the preservation of art
