by Judith Benhamou | Jan 21, 2025 | Art Market, Fashion
Global elegance For a long time, the ecosystem of global elegance was driven from Paris by two rival clans. On one side was Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), founder of his eponymous fashion house in 1961, and supported by his lifelong partner, businessman Pierre Bergé...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 17, 2025 | Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/-_9MYKJa9XM?si=uNFHeFS-xmGDFuM9 Paris: creative effervescence A nest teeming with artists: Paris was, for nearly a century up until the Second World War, the global epicenter of an unusually creative effervescence. From Camille Corot, who paved the...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 15, 2024 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum
Immense ambitions It is a cultural beacon in the United States. It is also the torchbearer of encyclopedic museums worldwide, in competition with the Louvre for the title of world’s greatest museum. This institution housing over 2 million works has been helmed since...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 14, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/_utYZdQf3V0 Korean living in Japan Lee Ufan (born in 1936), the Korean artist who lives in Japan, was the subject of a major retrospective which travelled all over Japan in 2022 and 2023 (see here the report I wrote covering the exhibition and the...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 8, 2024 | Exhibition, Modern Art, Photography, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/pgsp_dXITcA Timisoara For a long time Timișoara wasn’t a name that was familiar to the ears of the international crowd. Then in December 1989 the multicultural Romanian city became synonymous with horror when a mass grave was believed to have been...
