by Judith Benhamou | Sep 22, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/iqzhNu_sHNA?si=UAoYTe1bUHZxBks3 Soft power In China, the story of private museums is only just beginning. Art collections on display to the public, spearheading a new kind of soft power, are encouraged by the government. These institutions are...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 20, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/6nAnfg8Vqmg?si=R9gfzCgicK5dfzRo Friendship and art history In 1905, a story of friendship lay at the origin of one of the key episodes in modern art. The eccentric and visionary collector Gertrude Stein lived in Paris, at 27 Rue de Fleurus, near the...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 13, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/W0FSOKi7xPk?si=rnDD5Nrcc6aRXtEq Born in Russia As chance would have it, among the Parisian museums there are two flagship exhibitions this season dedicated to two 20th-century painters, both born in Russia and both émigrés, who went on to have...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 10, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
Soft power Power struggles in Asia have never been as significant as they are today in matters of soft power. More specifically, in the current art market the question is to know what city will be next in line to shine the brightest. Two countries In this battle of...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 4, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/QLPXvwrO9G0?si=g1RFq-Xr1MC8WKDV Free and creative She was free, unique, exuberant, original, creative and prolific. The Italian painter Leonor Fini (1907-1996) who moved to Paris in 1930 and would spend the rest of her life there, had everything it...