After a slow start to the diamond trade this year, continuning the trend seen during the latter half of 2018, the Antwerp diamond trade showed a marginal improvement in the trade in rough diamonds during February, though the polished trade continued to lag, according to figures released by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) yesterday. […]

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MHKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, is staging an exhibition called “Melancholia: The Diamond,” in collaboration with Lars von Trier, Marianne Slot and Leonid Ogarev. The exhibition is inspired by van Trier’s film “Melancholia” (2011) and also harks back to van Trier’s days in film school when he made very first documentary about diamonds. […]

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