by Judith Benhamou | May 9, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/EHhigM53ILw Anton Herbert “It was in 1968. We were very conventional. We didn’t understand much at the time. Thanks to Broodthaers we received an electroshock. He was a fascinating man, a poet. He gave us his vision. He revisited the fable of ‘Le...
by Judith Benhamou | May 4, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
The history of African American art He’s the missing link in the history of African American art: Ulysses Jenkins (born in 1946). We could locate him within this chronology between Charles White, a chronicler of black society through painting, who Ulysses was taught...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 26, 2023 | Art History, Modern Art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/FDkRczRWVl0 More questions than answers The Musée d’Orsay has a particular fondness for Edgar Degas (1834-1917). We can understand why. He is one of the geniuses of modernity. However the last exhibition on him, “Degas à l’Opéra”, only dates...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 23, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/1eDs__BVvQg Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin, the unparalleled theoretician of photography, found the perfect words to describe, since the 1930s, our fascination with images from the past. He wrote: “For the last time the aura emanates from the early...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 20, 2023 | Biennale, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Global South If anyone mentions Sharjah, the contemporary art fans say: that’s where the Biennial is. People generally don’t know much about this emirate, which is part of the UAE, apart from the fact that it is wedged between the riches of Abu Dhabi with its...
