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#ArtnetNews: Renowned for presenting 7,000 years of art history under one roof, TEFAF Maastricht seamlessly blends Old Master paintings, classical antiquities, modern and contemporary art, photography, jewelry, and 20th-century design. It’s a bit of a trek from Amsterdam, so those who make the voyage do so with intent—buyers were out in force. Within the first hour, a flurry of red dots signaled swift acquisitions. The scene was as grand as ever, with TEFAF’s signature blend of museum-quality treasures, exquisite food, and floral splendor. This year a tsunami of blooms cascaded from the ceiling, each one sheathed in glass, and appeared to hover weightlessly from near-invisible threads. TEFAF opens to the public March 15 to 20. Here are some highlights from a fair where centuries converge, and where Titian and Dan Flavin can share the same spotlight. Read more: https://bit.ly/3FC4Xwq Article by William Van Meter ______ Pictured: The grand floral display at Tefaf 2025. Photo: Loraine Bodewes, courtesy of Tefaf.

#ArtnetNews: Swedish researchers are hoping to excavate a potentially very informative shipwreck from near Stockholm, one that speaks to an era in the 15th century, when ships were carrying increasingly heavy armaments on board and shipbuilders were in a race to build ever-sturdier vessels. Located in Landfjärden near Häringe, south of Stockholm, the ship measures 115 feet long and 33 feet wide, and may date as far back as the 1460s. Researchers with Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, are working hard to see what the ship may reveal. “The ship’s frame still rises high above the seabed, and in the stern, both the sternpost and rudder remain upright,” said Håkan Altrock, museum curator and project manager overseeing the investigation, in press materials. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ibwfZ8 Article by Brian Boucher ____ Pictured: An illustration of a Viking longship, c. 800 C.E. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images.

#ArtnetNews: In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of exploring the then fast growing metropolis of Manhattan. “Wish You Were Here” is an unusual spin on New York history through the lens of the city’s magnetic lure as a visitor and tourist destination for a century and a half. The show runs through May 10 at New York’s Grolier Club, America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles (founded in 1884). The show is packed with hundreds of guidebooks, photobooks, viewbooks, photos, and maps, dating from roughly the early-1800s up through the 1940s (1807-1940), that invite close examination. From an “uncensored” guide that promises visitors “The real low-down on the things you want to know,” to books on not only where to dine but how, the material provides insight into the city’s history as a cultural and entertainment hub. Read more: https://bit.ly/3FwykjT Article by Eileen Kinsella ____ Pictured: King’s Views of New York. New York: Manhattan Post Card Co., (1926). From the collection of Mark D. Tomasko.

#ArtnetNews: If, when you think “England’s earliest cremation cemetery,” you immediately blurt out “Stonehenge,” well, you may have another, older think coming. Flagstones, a burial site in Dorset, on the English Channel, may actually be the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain, according to new research by experts from the University of Exeter and Historic England, a government body tasked with protecting historic sites. Whereas the first Stonehenge was, according to Historic England’s timeline, erected around 3000 B.C.E., new radiocarbon dating has revealed Flagstones to date to about 3200 B.C.E. It was previously thought to date to about 3000 B.C.E. Read more: https://bit.ly/3DKYZJ8 Article by Brian Boucher _______ Pictured: An artist's rendition of Flagstones enclosure shortly after construction in the middle Neolithic period. Reconstruction by Jennie Anderson.

#ArtnetNews: One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink sketch that turned out to be by the renowned English portrait painter George Romney. The unlikely discovery was a hit when it landed on the auction block early this week. “When I first found it buried in the dumpster, it looked interesting but I had no idea it was nearly 300 years old,” the anonymous Hudson local said in a statement. “After taking it home and doing some research, I couldn’t believe it. How did this mid-18th century drawing from England end up in the trash in upstate New York?” Read more: https://bit.ly/3FumRBg Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred ______ Pictured: George Romney, Sketch of Henrietta, Countess of Warwick, seated with her arm oustretched was found in a dumpster in New York. Image courtesy Roseberys London.

#ArtnetNews: The art collection of Barbara Gladstone, the legendary New York art dealer who died last year at 89, is in play. Sotheby’s and Christie’s are competing for the contemporary art trove and decorative objects assembled by Gladstone, according to people familiar with the matter. A homemaker-turned-international powerhouse whose blue-chip gallery represents 74 artists and estates, Gladstone left a will that mandates that all of her art be sold within as feasible an amount of time as possible, according to a person close to her estate. Some works are likely to come to auction in May with the proceeds to be distributed among her heirs. Gladstone was survived by two sons and grandchildren. Gladstone’s estate attorney Michael Stout didn’t respond to calls and emails seeking comment. Representatives for Sotheby’s and Christie’s declined to comment. Read more: https://bit.ly/3DJ1bRi Article by Katya Kazakina _____ Pictured: Gladstone Gallery's senior partner, Max Falkenstein, Barbara Gladstone, and a guest at a celebration for "Matthew Barney: River of Fundament" in Los Angeles in 2015. Photo by Donato Sardella/Getty Images for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

#ArtnetNews: Unfortunately, almost everyone has resonated at some time or other with Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893). So much so, it seems, that a recent investigation found that the legendary masterpiece had been damaged by eager visitors breathing too heavily in front of the work. The iconic painting wasn’t the only time that the leading Norwegian modernist sought to personify some form of existential angst, with other examples being Despair (1894) and Melancholy (1891). Yet, it was in the many portraits also produced by Munch that he was able to attempt a slightly more subtle probing of the human condition. A group of more than 40 of these character studies have just gone on display as part of “Edvard Munch Portraits” at the National Portrait Gallery in London, through June 15. The exhibition reveals new dimensions to Munch, using his art to build up a vivid sense of his biography, his wider cultural milieu, and his developing style before, during, and after several influential years spent in Paris and Berlin. Read more: https://bit.ly/3FtNE0x Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred _______ Pictured: Edvard Munch, Seated Model on the Couch, Birgit Prestøe (1924). Photo: Sidsel de Jong, © Munchmuseet.

#TheArtAnglePodcast: The Louvre is among the largest, most-visited, and best-known museums in the world, and for nearly too many reasons to count. It’s home to some of the most celebrated works of art, from the Venus de Milo to the Mona Lisa. Its blended contemporary and historic architecture is astounding. And it also has a truly formidable past, stretching back through time, well before the building became a museum in 1793. An institution and collection that has been a quiet witness to so much history and change is bound to have stories to tell. Elaine Sciolino, contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has captured many of these stories in her newest book, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, which is out this April with Norton & Company. Sciolino is acclaimed for her chronicles of French history, and she’s the author of the New York Times bestseller The Only Street in Paris, The Seine, and La Seduction. And at the Louvre, she spoke to everyone, from the guards to the lead curators, and received unprecedented access to rooms I didn’t even know existed. Co-host of the podcast, Kate Brown caught up with Elaine, who is based in Paris, to discuss the enigmatic and ever-enchanting Louvre, and what she learned from her exploration of its many halls, backrooms, and basements. 🎧Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or tap the link: https://bit.ly/4kFJrXQ

#ArtnetNews: A previously unknown painting by French Romantic giant Eugène Delacroix will come to auction this month in Paris. The artist turned out many ink sketches and studies of lions, the house pointed out in press materials, but painted versions are rare. In this work, seven lions rest, mostly lying on the ground, one seated. He was known for spending time studying animals at the menagerie at Paris’s Jardin des Plantes, and he and his artist friend Louis-Antoine Barye attended animal dissections whenever possible, said the auctioneer. Delacroix even informed Barye via letter when Coco, a lion that was given to the menagerie by Admiral Henri de Rigny, died in 1829, writing, “The lion is dead. Ride at full speed!” Continue reading: https://bit.ly/4h6ZAT2 Article by Brian Boucher ______ Pictured: Eugène Delacroix, Study of Reclining Lions. Courtesy Hôtel Drouot, Paris.

#ArtnetNews: Once again, women are ruling the roost at a major art fair, as galleries and museums alike scramble to be the first to revive the reputation of yet another shamefully overlooked historical virtuosa. For those flocking to TEFAF Maastricht this week, there should be plenty of new discoveries in store, as well as some old favorites that have finally made their way into the mainstream. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3DHTVVV Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred _______ Pictured: Juliana Seraphim, The Eye (1970s). Photo courtesy of Richard Saltoun. Juliana Seraphim, Princess with a Hookah (1994). Photo courtesy of Richard Saltoun. Hilla von Rebay, Masque (c. 1928). Photo courtesy of Galerie Raphaël Durazzo. Bianca Boni, The Cumaean Sybil. Photo courtesy Walter Padovani.