Fine Art News
- The price of budget travel: a day in Athens
Removing pre-arranged seats from a flight unleashes the basest, darkest instincts of humankind. So to fly Easyjet, “Europe’s leading airline”, is not just to travel cheaply but also to be a voluntary participant in a psychological experiment akin to…
- Portugal celebrates its history—on a budget
For the opening weekend (21-22 January) celebrating the Portuguese city of Guimarães’s term as the 2012 European Capital of Culture (with Maribor in Slovenia), the organisers set a suitable tone for a country currently struggling under economic woes…
- Denmark’s Right Royal Painter
Here’s a sentence you don’t see very often: “The Queen will be present during this part of the press opening and will answer questions from the press.” The information comes courtesy of a statement from the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark…
- Americana week pulls in uneven results
The blitz of sales and fairs of Americana week in New York (16-22 January) scored some mixed results. The auctions were marked by heavy phone and online bidding with early antiques prized by collectors.
Christie’s 586-lot sales (19, 20 and 23…
