Rhizome, the New York-based art and technology organization, and an affiliate in residence at The New Museum in New York, has announced the 2016 lineup of its annual Seven on Seven conference.

Laura Poitras is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and the director of Citizenfour, the Oscar-winning film on Edward Snowden and the post 9/11 NSA domestic spying scandal. In 2004 she directed My Country, My country a�� the film that convinced Snowden to choose Poitras to direct Citizenfour.

The neurotic frenzy of certain collectors, the rarity of exceptional pieces, the omnipresence of flagship artists, the art market on the Indian sub-continent is quickly developing.

LAFA et Wildgen ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence : « L’authenticité de l’oeuvre d’art : du concept à la réalité du marché ». Suivie par une visite guidée de l’exposition Bubblelicious” par SUMO.

More that 60 guests attended the conference entitled a�?legal vehicles & structures to hold and invest in art a�?orgnized by LAFA during TEFAF on March 18th. The event was graced by the presence of Guy Arendt, Luxembourgish Secretary of State for Culture and several of his high ranking advisors.

Every year, the publication of the Tefaf Art Market Report by Arts Economics expert Dr. Clare McAndrew sets the standard for data used within presentations about the art market for the next 12 months. The statistics on art sales, regional divides and trends in commerce are very interesting.

Roman KrAussl, Thorsten Lehnert, and Nicolas Martelin from the Luxembourg School of Finance applied a new statistical method of detecting bubbles to over one million auction records from 1970 to 2014, focusing their research on the Impressionist and modern, post-war and contemporary, American, and Old Masters sectors of the market.

Could Anvers, Belgium, be making a name for itself among the international contemporary art capitals? Often referred to as the little country of great collectors, Belgium has once again proved that it is just that. Maurice Verbaet began collecting in the early 70s and he has just inaugurated his personal museum in the heart of Anvers.