by Judith Benhamou | Dec 20, 2023 | Architecture, Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Old masters, Video interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJroTSJock&feature=youtu.be Grand history of architects The grand history of 20th-century architects is made of cross-pollinations and collaborations. Take Norman Foster (Pritzker Prize 1999). He was the subject in spring 2023 of a...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 15, 2023 | Exhibition, Photography, Video interviews
Art is not beauty It shouldn’t be believed, as young children are often told, that art is simply what is beautiful. If that was the case, neither Rembrandt nor Cezanne, nor Schiele for instance (See here the report about Michelangelo and his heirs) , would have any...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 11, 2023 | Art History, Exhibition, Old masters, Video interviews
Corporeal quality There’s only a handful of artists capable of giving drawings an almost corporeal quality in their works on paper. In Ingres we don’t just see portraits in black and white, but rather figures whose eyes sparkle with life. In Seurat we don’t just see a...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 7, 2023 | Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Noisy parade Since it was founded in 2002, the fair showcasing current art, Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), has seen its image change considerably. Initially it suffered from a reputation mitigated by the very nature of the city hosting it, as an epicentre of excess in...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 3, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Film, Video art, Video interviews
Athletes like divinities In Greek and Roman times, as in the Italian Renaissance, athletes were celebrated by artists as veritable divinities. Alas, this idea was resurrected during the Nazi period, but that’s no reason to abandon the monopoly of the celebration of...
