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Modern Art Obsession DailyServing.com Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters Joanne Mattera Art Blog Artworld Salon Why don’t we see more cross-period and cross-category collecting? We found ourselves asking this question repeatedly while wandering the halls of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) this past weekend. And it appeared to be the question dealers were asking, too. One London-based gallerist we spoke with lamented the decline of the collector dedicated to his or her individual wants. Such connoisseurship simply comes down to wanting the “best” of what one likes, regardless of whether that is a Richter abstraction from 1984 or a Brueghel wedding dance scene from 1614. The Maastricht fair is tailored to this kind of collector. In short, at Maastricht, discernment reigns. For two reasons. Second, market and institutional pressure: Collectors are increasingly encouraged to pick one medium or category – say photography or west-coast video – and stick to it. Yet Maastricht seems to counter this particularist/generalist dichotomy.

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