by Judith Benhamou | Aug 31, 2025 | Art Market
Blum’s gallery sunset On 1 July, a bombshell announcement shook the global art market. Blum, one of the most influential galleries in the United States—and more specifically Los Angeles—announced it was closing its doors. In describing this decision, Tim...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 27, 2025 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
https://youtu.be/Ng2-g8ImgEk?si=8_HaXiEnGgBXqQ2L The fate of women There’s a great deal embedded in the work of Anna Maria Maiolino. But nothing reveals itself at first glance. The artist—who, though born in Italy in 1942, has spent most of her life in São Paulo, by...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 22, 2025 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
Van Gogh, tourist magnet The scorching sun, the Rhône winding majestically through the city, lively café terraces, Roman ruins, Van Gogh—the ever-present tourist magnet—and everywhere, down one alley or another, contemporary art exhibitions. Arles is a beautiful small...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 20, 2025 | Abstraction, Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum
Never before attempted “Here, something never before attempted is being tried: to create the universe, create instinctively, and through love, the universe in which modern art might find both its rightful place and that otherworld once known as the...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 14, 2025 | Abstraction, Contemporary art, Exhibition
Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began moving away from purely figurative forms in order to bring painting closer...
