Preview: October 2016 auction week
Enjoy a sneak peek at Dorotheum’s upcoming October 2016 auction week (18 October–20 October 2016). These auctions…
Ornamental autumn: 4 special jewellery and watch auctions
Colourful, diverse, and in flux! The last rays of summer sun are still glimmering, but…
13 surprising facts about Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini was more than the maker of the world’s most expensive saltshaker, the Cellini salt cellar. A goldsmith, draftsman, author, musician, soldier, and one of the most important sculptors of Italian Mannerism, Cellini…
Discoveries of Dorotheum’s contemporary art specialists
Dorotheum specialists Petra Schäpers, Maria Cristina Corsini, Patrizia Pálffy, Elke and Eva Königseder let us in on their favourite artistic hotspots, artists, fashion designs and what’s at the top of their travel list.
Fernand Huts: AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD
Fernand Huts is one of the most successful men in Belgium and certainly a darling of the press. He is charismatic, congenial, intelligent, utterly fascinating and never ever shy of a juicy bit of…
The perfect flaw
Jean-Pierre Riber, writer, topchef, and quiche Lorraine expert, welcomes us to the charming Alsace village of Meyenheim. At his ancient family farm, built in 1556, he tells us about his rather surprising…
Ai Weiwei: translocation – transformation
‘My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.’ –Ai Weiwei, ‘Ai Weiwei’s Year of Living Dangerously’.…