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Program

The TEFAF Program offers you numerous ways to meet and connect in-person and virtually with leading experts from the TEFAF global art community. Led by museum professionals, key insiders, and experts in their fields, the TEFAF program focuses on sharing knowledge, revealing industry insights, and inspiring both experienced collectors and new art lovers.

“TEFAF Talks” are carefully curated conversations that are developed to strengthen your art knowledge, and our “Meet the Experts” section of the program explores the narratives behind selected masterpieces. In addition, “TEFAF Fair Tours” guides you through 7,000 years of art. Previous thought-provoking conversations are collected in the “Past Programs” section below.

TEFAF invites you on a journey at one of our fairs to draw inspiration from the art world’s past and present.

More details about TEFAF’s program and schedule will be announced closer to the fair.

Past Programs

Cultural Programming

Civic Pride: The City as Collector

This discussion will explore what it means for a city to collect, or for a museum to collect objects relating to the history and artistic production of cities.

November 25, 2020

Cultural Programming

Old Masters, New Spaces: Historical Art in Modernist Buildings

This discussion will place the Frick’s venture in the context of other modernist spaces in which historical collections have been displayed.

November 20, 2020

Cultural Programming

Retrieving Lost Identities: The Black Figure in Art, Past and Present

One of the most urgent and compelling topics shaping the art world today is the pictorial representation of the black figure— a complex and highly charged subject whose dynamics extend far beyond the studio, gallery, and classroom.

September 8, 2020

Cultural Programming

Stone and Faith: Rebuilding Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s reconstruction whether viewed through a spiritual, aesthetic, or historic lens, will continue to fascinate and frustrate us. It will also yield practical lessons about a host of preservation, heritage, and its institutional role in the city itself.

September 1, 2020