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A royal appointment adds further gloss to the glamour of Masterpiece
AS with every fair the main attractions at Masterpiece London should be the works for sale around the stands but the organisers are also hoping to woo the crowds with a very special exhibit there o...
Top fairs in London and Hong Kong come together in an historic promotional pact
EAST meets West twice in the coming months as two major international fairs on opposite sides of the world team up in what looks like an enterprising partnership. London’s Masterpiece and Fine Art...
Design on the waterfront at New York launch
NEW York has a new design fair and there seems to be a deal of excitement surrounding the inaugural Collective, which will be held from May 8 to 11 at Hudson River Park’s Pier 57 near the ultra-hip...
West country watercolours add to the allure of a typically English day out in Chelsea
TEFAF may be the only show in town in Holland but as I said last month there is another notable show in London around the same time, the BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair which runs from March 13 t...
Britain’s finest strut their stuff in an upmarket Chelsea tent
OVERLAPPING with Maastricht is a very different fair, but one which over its 21 years has also built up a loyal following. So in case you want to adjust your schedule to take in both events (and so...
Masterpiece creates new management position to oversee global branding
MORE changes, or rather additions, to the senior management structure at London’s luxury art and antiques fair Masterpiece as Nazy Vassegh (pictured) moves into the newly-created position of chief...
Masterpiece fixes the dates but already some of the big players have booked their place at the fair
DATES have been announced for next summer’s fourth Masterpiece London which returns to the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, SW3 from June 27 to July 3 with a glam £100 preview on June ...
Masterpiece funds the restoration of a 17th century Flemish masterwork
ANOTHER example of the trade aiding museums can be seen here with the recent unveiling of the newly conserved ‘Allegory of Fruitfulness’ by Flemish master Jacob Jordaens in the freshly refurbished ...
AFTER three editions Masterpiece is living up to its name and adding substance to style
IT is always difficult to assess the success, or otherwise, of an international fair less than a week after it has closed; clients may take some weeks before they clinch a deal initiated at the fair ...
SLOVENIAN Playboy artist makes his New York debut
WELL known in Europe and widely exhibited in his native Slovenia, Boris Selan makes his New York debut this month in a show ‘Seasonal Perspectives’ at the Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street in the u...
Manhattan show proves that while some like it hot Marilyn is always the hottest
MOVIE stars come and go and although the term movie legend is bandied about a lot, few really deserve that accolade. One who unquestionably does is Marilyn Monroe for whom the word legend could hav...
London’s oldest botanical garden to host some of the best of contemporary sculpture
LONDON is particularly blessed with green spaces but one of the most delightful is among the least known, the Chelsea Physic Garden, founded in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries as a h...
Frieze appeal may be contemporary but now it stretches back to antiquity
WHEN the Frieze contemporary art fair was launched in London’s Regent’s Park almost a decade ago it was not to everyone’s taste, but it proved a sensation and straight away became an international ...
Masterpiece may still be about luxury but this year its marketing adds substance to its style
SINCE the untimely, but not in retrospect unfortunate, demise of the venerable Grosvenor House fair in 2009 there has been a sea change in the dynamics of the London summer fairs scene. Masterpiec...
Already London’s top fair Masterpiece recruits the world’s top art dealer to play a mystery role this year
FROM Maastricht to New York and Paris, cities have their annual antiques and art moments and traditionally in June the focus is on London. I have mentioned there are three major London summer fai...
Leading New York art dealer bucks the economic trend with two new five-storey spaces
TIMES may be tough but, as has been often said, when the going gets tough the tough get going. Very much the case with New York dealer David Zwirner, 47 and considered one of the most powerful playe...
A reshuffle in the boardroom as the chairman steps down to take on a more creative role at Masterpiece
SPECTACULAR, ultra-smart London fair Masterpiece may have established itself as the UK’s premier art and antiques attraction, and indeed attained world-ranking status in just two stagings but far fro...
The man behind Downton Abbey booked as the star turn on top table at BADA dinner
ON the evening of March 26 one of the hottest tickets in town will be the British Antique Dealers’ Association’s Biennial Dinner which has snapped up Julian Fellowes, currently the hottest televisio...
Bernheimer-Colnaghi to exhibit at Masterpiece London 2011
Old Masters Meet Contemporary Photographers  Bernheimer-Colnaghi will show the unusual combination of Old Master paintings and contemporary photographs at the second staging of Masterpiece Lon...
Masterpiece London 2011 set to take the world by storm
Hailed by Sir Roger Moore as “breathtaking in its execution” and crowned “by far the very best fair I have ever been to” by globally-renowned interior designer Rose Tarlow i...
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