TEFAF Turns From the Classic to the Contemporary
The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht describes itself as a fair that spans 7,000 years of art history. For a long time, those 7,000 years mainly encompassed pre-20th-century objects:…
TEFAF Maastricht Courts Young Collectors
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…
TEFAF: Ecofeminism Returns, With a Renewed Focus on the Environment and Women
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…
TEFAF Maastricht Is Another New Audience for Egon Schiele
The explosion of modern art and scientific thought in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century holds an enduring fascination. And perhaps no painter better captures the sense of…
TEFAF’s New Director Seeks a Larger Role for the Foundation
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…