by Judith Benhamou | Feb 2, 2023 | Art Market, Auction
https://youtu.be/Lus0J0c_Gc8 A fairly placid market Compared to the excessive prices in the field of modern and contemporary art, the market for old masters seems to be fairly placid judging by the results of the January sales in New York. It’s a far cry from the...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 27, 2023 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/ZXcus1rGJxQ Global Ugo Rondinone (1964) is one of the star artists on the global contemporary art scene. The Swiss national is represented by six galleries around the world. He works primarily in the fields of sculpture and video, playing with...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 23, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/1LrnSLhWSqE Erudition and execution “The act of painting is the longest and the most difficult. You need the erudition of a composer, but also the execution required to play the violin.” Eugène Delacroix wrote these words in 1847 and nearly 170 years...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 19, 2023 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/bMHlM4vrKwU Breathtaking show For the sixth time, Paris’s opera house is staging Wagner’s great opera, Tristan and Isolde, accompanied by images from Bill Viola (born in 1951) and directed by the American theatre director Peter Sellars. The show is...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 17, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Paintings, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Guggenheim Not all artists merit the Guggenheim. The famous spiral-shaped building in New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is a death knell for those whose career is half-baked, overly repetitive and insubstantial. Among the great...
