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The European Fine Art Foundation, organizers of the venerable European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), which is held annually in Maastricht, Netherlands, have been discussing launching a new art fair in China with the help of Sotheby’s. While it may seem like an unusual pairing, TEFAF and Sotheby’s are looking to join forces in order to tap into China’s thriving art and antiques market, which raised $13.7 billion in 2012.
Last year, Sotheby’s entered into a ten-year joint venture with China’s state-owned media corporation, Beijing GeHua Cultural Development Group. The collaboration will allow Sotheby’s to utilize the free port that GeHua is developing with the Tianzhu Free Trade Zone in Beijing. The port will serve as a tax-advantaged storage location, which is ideal for foreigners looking to buy high-priced artworks overseas. Sotheby’s is the first international auction house to establish itself in Mainland China.
If TEFAF and Sotheby’s decide to move forward with the fair, TEFAF Beijing will launch in 2014. TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s biggest art and antiques fair, is currently taking place in the Netherlands and will wrap up on Sunday, March 24, 2013.
From May 23-26, 2013, Art Basel will host 245 exhibitors at their first show in Hong Kong, which will replace the region’s biggest art fair, Art HK. Held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Art Basel Hong Kong will feature works from emerging artists as well as 20th century masters from both Asia and the West. While Art Basel currently runs two major international shows in Switzerland and Miami Beach, the organization is striving to maintain an emphasis on the Asian region for the Hong Kong fair.
Top galleries from 35 countries will meet at Art Basel Hong Kong, which is divided into four categories: Galleries, Insights, Discoveries, and Encounters. Galleries will present over 170 modern and contemporary exhibitors; Insights will feature galleries solely from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region; Discoveries presents a showcase of one and two-person exhibitions by emerging international contemporary artists; and Encounters features large-scale sculptural and installation works by artists from around the globe.
Exhibitors at the upcoming Art Basel Hong Kong show include Dominique Levy Gallery (New York), Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. (New York), Wentrup (Berlin), Galeria Pedro Cera (Lisbon), Leo Xu Projects (Shanghai), Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong), and Schoeni Art Gallery (Hong Kong).
The Affordable Art Fair announced that it will launch a version of its popular show in Hong Kong next year. Taking place from March 15-17, 2013, the fair will bring together 80 local and international galleries at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The Affordable Art Fair launched in 1999 and strives to make the art world and collecting more accessible. There are currently 16 Affordable Art Fairs that take place worldwide. Since its inception, Over 1 million visitors have attended Affordable Art Fairs and art sales at the various shows total over $275 million.
The Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong will present emerging artists alongside well-known names. In an effort to promote buying, all works will be priced around $130 to $13,000 with 75% of offerings under $10,000. Camilla Hewitson, Director of Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong said, “With Hong Kong’s position as the leading contemporary art market in Asia, we feel it is without a doubt the ideal city in which to launch an Afford Art Fair.”
Now in its 58th year, the Brussels Antiques and Fine Art Fair (BRAFA) will take place January 19-27, 2013 at the exhibition space, Tour & Taxis. Featuring 128 dealers from 11 countries, the fair will present works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century including antiquities, jewelry, furniture, ceramics, drawings, engravings, Old Master as well as modern paintings, sculpture, textiles, contemporary art, photography, and much more.
After drawing in 46,000 visitors last year, BRAFA organizers have made a number of adjustments in hopes of surpassing 2012’s numbers. There will be 26 new exhibitors present and an increased emphasis has been placed on pre-Columbian art; archaeology; primitive arts; 17th to 19th century furniture; 19th to 20th century paintings, sculptures, and drawings; Asiatic arts; 20th century decorative arts; and modern and contemporary art. BRAFA has also added a new section to this year’s fair devoted to manuscripts. Exhibitors in this section include Signatures (Paris), Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), and Sanderus Antiquariaat (Ghent, Belgium).
In honor of the fair’s tenth year at Tour & Taxis, BRAFA’s architects, Volume Architecture, have designed an extraordinary entrance inspired by Byzantine architecture, particularly that of the mosques in Istanbul.
VIP guests will be given a sneak peek of the impressive fair at BRAFA’s exclusive charity event on January 18. A silent auction will be held during the evening and proceeds will benefit the Merode Foundation to support its work on educational and social projects in Brussels’ working class neighborhoods.
Exhibitor highlights include Whitford Fine Art (London), which specializes in French and British 20th century painting and sculpture, Leysen Jewelers (Belgium), jewelers to the Belgian royal family, and Guy Pieters Gallery (Paris/Belgium), a leading force in the contemporary art world for the past 30 years.
Art Miami LLC, the company responsible for Art Miami, the city’s longest running contemporary art fair, announced this morning that they have acquired Aqua Art Miami. Now in its eighth year, Aqua is a satellite fair that takes place at the Aqua Hotel each year during Art Basel Week.
Founded by artist Jaq Chartier and collector and dealer Dirk Park in 2005, Aqua is devoted to bringing emerging and early mid-career contemporary artists together from across the globe. Being under the Art Miami umbrella will help Aqua to develop a larger scope of offerings for exhibitors and patrons as well as attract more big-name collectors to the show.
Art Miami LLC will take over operations at Aqua after the fair’s 2012 edition ends on Sunday, December 9.
Since 2009, there has been chatter that the Vatican would have its own pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It has finally been confirmed that they will take part in the contemporary art fair’s 55th year. A vice president of the Vatican’s Holy See promoting committee attended a Biennale press conference on October 26.
The Biennale, which will take place from June 1 to November 24, 2013, welcomes eight new countries to the upcoming fair including the Bahamas, Kuwait, the Maldives, and Paraguay. While the Vatican has kept the works they plan to exhibit under wraps, an Italian newspaper reported that they will feature less than 10 men and women from around the world. They also said that a mix of established and emerging artists on view will explore the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis.
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the Italian-born associate director of the New Museum in New York, the Biennale’s headline exhibitions will take place at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni and the Arsenale. Gioni plans to incorporate older pieces from the late 19th and 20th century into the fair.
Fall may have just begun, but Art Basel Miami Beach is already gearing up for December. The mother of all American art fairs has compiled its exhibitor list for its 11th edition, which runs December 6-9. Over 680 galleries competed for 257 spots -- slightly fewer than last year's total of 264. They hail from 31 countries and include new faces from New York, Paris, Berlin, and London. Meanwhile, some familiar dealers -- including Tony Shafrazi, Zach Feuer, and Marc Jancou, all of New York -- will not be returning.
NEW YORK CITY – The Art Fair Company is taking over the American Antiques Show (TAAS) from the financially ailing American Folk Art Museum, potentially changing the complexion and dynamic of New York’s Americana Week in January.
Afanews.com spoke to Mark Lyman, president of the Art Fair Company, from his office in Chicago late last week, hours after an agreement was reached. Directed by Lyman and his partner, chief executive officer Michael Franks, the Art Fair Company produces the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) contemporary design and decorative arts shows in Chicago, New York and Santa Fe; the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art; and the new Spring Show NYC, organized by the Art and Antique Dealers League of America.
Afanews: What are your plans for the American Antiques Show?
ML: We want to revitalize it. The American Antiques Show has been very good, but we want to incorporate some new disciplines, such as design and photography. We will bring the show up to the Modernist era. We are very interested in adding paintings dealers while still being respectful of the show’s traditional base, which is folk art and American antiques.
Afanews: Is it your goal to make the show more youthful?
ML: Youthful is a key phrase. We are interested in the spirit and energy of things. We want to bring in new clients and present material in a new way. We will upgrade the show’s look and sensibility. It will be very dramatic, charming, interesting and clear.
Afanews: What motivated the management change?
ML: The museum makes money on the opening night party but the production of the show itself has not been gainful. We are professionals and work very hard at what we do. On the logistics side, we own all of our walls, which are hard, as well as our lights. They are in a warehouse in southeast Michigan. The Art Fair Company is a national organization with a national marketing effort.
Afanews: How does the museum benefit from the new arrangement?
ML: The agreement is that the Art Fair Company has all the financial responsibility to produce the show. It is our show, but we have committed to have the museum be the opening night beneficiary. The museum will receive every penny of profit from opening night.
Afanews: Who is involved in the planning and preparations?
ML : The most important thing that we are doing is organizing an exhibitor advisory board. We got to know two American Antiques Show exhibitors, Frank Maresca and Carl Hammer, through the Intuit Show. Frank and Carl are already involved, but we also want to bring in others who have been an important part of the American Antiques Show, plus new people. We hope that the exhibitors are excited about it.
Afanews: Why is the Art Fair Company taking this on?
ML: It is a very good opportunity for us and we are excited about working with the dealers.
The new show will open with a preview benefitting the American Folk Art Museum on Wednesday, January 18, and continue through January 22 at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in New York.
The New York Times reported that the museum is currently in default on nearly $32 million worth of bonds that it issued to construct its building on West 53rd Street. The museum’s director, Maria Ann Conelli, last week announced that she will leave the museum in July to return to academia.
Write to Laura Beach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
NEW YORK CITY – The Art Fair Company is taking over the American Antiques Show (TAAS) from the financially ailing American Folk Art Museum, potentially changing the complexion and dynamic of New York’s Americana Week in January.
Afanews.com spoke to Mark Lyman, president of the Art Fair Company, from his office in Chicago late last week, hours after an agreement was reached. Directed by Lyman and his partner, chief executive officer Michael Franks, the Art Fair Company produces the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) contemporary design and decorative arts shows in Chicago, New York and Santa Fe; the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art; and the new Spring Show NYC, organized by the Art and Antique Dealers League of America.
Afanews: What are your plans for the American Antiques Show?
ML: We want to revitalize it. The American Antiques Show has been very good, but we want to incorporate some new disciplines, such as design and photography. We will bring the show up to the Modernist era. We are very interested in adding paintings dealers while still being respectful of the show’s traditional base, which is folk art and American antiques.
Afanews: Is it your goal to make the show more youthful?
ML: Youthful is a key phrase. We are interested in the spirit and energy of things. We want to bring in new clients and present material in a new way. We will upgrade the show’s look and sensibility. It will be very dramatic, charming, interesting and clear.
Afanews: What motivated the management change?
ML: The museum makes money on the opening night party but the production of the show itself has not been gainful. We are professionals and work very hard at what we do. On the logistics side, we own all of our walls, which are hard, as well as our lights. They are in a warehouse in southeast Michigan. The Art Fair Company is a national organization with a national marketing effort.
Afanews: How does the museum benefit from the new arrangement?
ML: The agreement is that the Art Fair Company has all the financial responsibility to produce the show. It is our show, but we have committed to have the museum be the opening night beneficiary. The museum will receive every penny of profit from opening night.
Afanews: Who is involved in the planning and preparations?
ML : The most important thing that we are doing is organizing an exhibitor advisory board. We got to know two American Antiques Show exhibitors, Frank Maresca and Carl Hammer, through the Intuit Show. Frank and Carl are already involved, but we also want to bring in others who have been an important part of the American Antiques Show, plus new people. We hope that the exhibitors are excited about it.
Afanews: Why is the Art Fair Company taking this on?
ML: It is a very good opportunity for us and we are excited about working with the dealers.
The new show will open with a preview benefitting the American Folk Art Museum on Wednesday, January 18, and continue through January 22 at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in New York.
The New York Times reported that the museum is currently in default on nearly $32 million worth of bonds that it issued to construct its building on West 53rd Street. The museum’s director, Maria Ann Conelli, last week announced that she will leave the museum in July to return to academia.
Write to Laura Beach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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