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Zilkens' News Blog 34 2024
Good morning, I'm still angry, even though three days have passed since the coalition parties agreed on the German budget for 2025. No, it is not the lack of respect for culture, which is also hidden in this, that is causing my anger, but the address of devotion to the Russian genocidist and aggressor, which is probably based in the chancellery: Look, we will make ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 33 2024
A very good morning on the first day after the Olympics in Paris – the whole thing is really over now, but that hasn't meant 14 days of peace in the world. In Gaza and Israel, the fighting continues. Russia is still bombing Ukraine and is striving for a peace dictated by the aggressor, which Michael Kretschmer, the Prime Minister of Saxony, is latently supporting ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 32 2024
Only 20 weeks left and then this year will be over. The art market will be quiet for the next four weeks, apart from a few local events. The opposite is true for seasonal business, if you compare it to tourism. After these four weeks, elections will be held in three eastern German states - and everyone will be staring at the oracles of the ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 31 2024
The next typhoon to hit the Philippines, also causing deaths, was around the time of the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris, which took place in pouring rain – so we were lucky again. The weather does not seem to be on our side – climate change is everywhere, but there is little constructive action to combat it. What is often forgotten is the ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 30 2024
Stefan Kobel is back from France and has compiled and commented on a great deal of information about the art market. You can read it right after this.On Friday, the world realised how even the most simple disruptions in data networks can have an enormous impact on many areas of life worldwide. This could be the accumulation that the insurance industry does not actually want ... read more
Zilkens‘ News Blog 29 2024
When countries dispute the provenance and ownership of works of art, moral outrage is quickly at work, as in the case of the Benin bronzes, for example. But there are also works of art in museums in the USA that came there quite normally, although they are sorely missed in their original location, such as the other half of the cloister of St. Michel de ... read more