Market - Finestre sull'Arte

Artissima 2024, our selection: 20 works to see (with prices)

Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair, reaches its thirty-first edition in 2024, confirming the Piedmontese capital as one of the nerve centers for the contemporary art market. Among the thousands of works presented in the galleries of Artissima, ...
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Unbelievable. Cattelan's banana up for auction for $1 million

$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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Veronafiere launches call for new artistic direction of ArtVerona

Veronafiere is launching a call for applications to select the new artistic direction of ArtVerona for the next three-year period. Applications must be submitted by Oct. 31, while the deadline for submission is Nov. 25. Applicants should have experi...
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Art Basel reclaims its name and rediscovers the Grand Palais: a monumental fair

It has regained its former institutional home, the imposing Grand Palais, and definitively enshrined its new name, Art Basel Paris, the multi-location fair that from city to city marks the annual calendar for the entire art world and creates a series...
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AMART 2024, first previews from Milan antiques fair

The sixth edition of AMART, the Antiques Exhibition organized by theAssociazione Antiquari Milanesi and Promo.Ter Unione, is preparing to welcome visitors to an event where past and present dialogue harmoniously thanks to an exhibition project concei...
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Auctions Oct. 9 to 15: contemporary art, furniture and photographs

Today, in our regular auction column, we will find out the best deals from October 9 to 15. Through Oct. 10, Pandolfini has the Modern & Contemporary Art auction, selling works by artists such as Mario Ceroli and Mario Schifano. At Cambi 's is ...
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BIAF closes with 28,000 visitors and numerous sales. Here are some of them

The 33rd edition of the Florence Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato (BIAF) ended yesterday, Oct. 6, 2024, with record numbers. With more than 28,000 visitors flocking to Palazzo Corsini, the BIAF's headquarters, the event exceeded expectations...
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Pienza municipality purchases a panel painting by Pietro Lorenzetti, who returns to the place where he was born

Important purchase by the Municipality of Pienza , which manages to put together the resources to buy a panel painting by Pietro Lorenzetti (Siena, c. 1285 - 1348), a St. Luke that constitutes a fragment of the Monticchiello Polyptych: the operation,...
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