Tobias Renner

Arts Correspondent, The Continental Times

Tobias covers arts for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

In Paris, Old Masters Shine as Contemporary Sales Cool for a Third Straight Season

A week of auctions and fairs produced a record for a 17th-century still life and a string of unsold postwar canvases, confirming a market that is choosier, slower, and less interested in the new.

Oct. 8, 2026 5 MIN READ

The glass roof of the Grand Palais in Paris, which hosted the city’s largest contemporary art fair this week.

Copenhagen Opens the Tallest Timber Building in Scandinavia, and It Smells Like a Forest

At 86 meters, the Nordhavn tower is a test of whether mass timber can scale beyond the boutique, and of whether residents will pay a premium to live in wood.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ

New apartment buildings along the water in Nordhavn, the former industrial port on Copenhagen’s northern edge where the timber tower opened this week.