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The Maastricht fair.(Art)(Critical Essay)
A long, thin sliver of Holland extends southwards, squeezed between Belgium and Germany. At its center, minutes from Aachen, is the town of Maastricht, population of 125,000. Declaring itself with some justification the oldest urban enclave in the Netherlands, it was, to the Romans, Mosae Trajectum ("Maas Crossing"). Strategically straddling the river Maas, the town has experienced an astonishing total of nineteen sieges--by Austria, Spain, and France--all in the course of the religious and territorial disputes that marked the transformation of the medieval Duchy of Brabant into the modern United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Despite this turbulent history, the ...
- The Grand Bazaar of Art.(Maastricht fair, Holland)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country HERRERA, PHILIP December 1, 1999 700+ words
Welcome to the Maastricht fair, a vast and tasteful event that...sales, the works of art at the Maastricht fair are mostly of remarkable quality...it, about $5 billion. Indeed, Maastricht is the marketplace for northern...
- Holland's billion-dollar baby.(Front Page)(European Fine Art Foundation Fair...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Ebony, David June 1, 2004 700+ words
...TEFAF), also known as the Maastricht Fair, offered for sale an estimated...290,000-square-foot) Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Center...One exceptional aspect of the Maastricht event is the large number of...
- Triumphal March: this month sees two of the art world's greatest annual events:...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Moore, Susan March 1, 2007 700+ words
Death and deaccession seem to dominate this month's column. The run-up to the European Fine Art Fair at Maastricht has seen the tragic loss of both TEFAF's president, the ever-amiable Dave Aronson of Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam, and...
- Fly to Maastricht to Visit Rembrandt, New Michelangelo.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) March 25, 2002 700+ words
...were shown in abundance at the Maastricht fair. Of particular interest to me...the many modernist works in the Maastricht fair, the greatest in my view was...Paris in September. Much of the Maastricht fair is devoted not to paintings of...
- Ratification. (Maastricht treaty of the European Community)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 20, 1992 700+ words
...those pests now emerging to question the Maastricht treaty he and his EC colleagues so brilliantly...understand quite why the Danes rejected Maastricht in their referendum on June 2nd. The...definitively defeated federalism at Maastricht. German politicians of left and right...
- The Maastricht mire. (United Kingdom's vote on European union) (Editorial)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 13, 1993 700+ words
...House of Commons on an amendment to its Maastricht bill. That vote on March 8th, John...and Labour (though officially pro-Maastricht) is enjoying the chance of unsettling...s European partners that the entire Maastricht treaty risks destruction in the Mother...
- The road ahead for Maastricht: European Community. (treaty on European union)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 31, 1993 700+ words
...So much for just one bit of the Maastricht treaty, signed in February last year...policy". No wonder the skeptics think Maastricht is more fantasy than realism. Are they...week, it will be "catastrophic" for Maastricht. The reasoning is simple: the ERM...
- Maastricht sails on. (treaty) (Editorial) (Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 22, 1993 700+ words
...on second thoughts, to Europe's Maastricht treaty comes as a qualified relief...visiting Gulliver. "Europe Yes, Maastricht No" was the sincere cry of many Danes. The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Maastricht fair.(Art)(Critical Essay)