by Judith Benhamou | Nov 1, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/ohJSf3ag_9Q A new vocabulary There are certain artists – and they are rare – who are capable of inventing an entire vocabulary. This is true of the Icelandic-Danish artist who lives in Berlin, Olafur Eliasson (born in 1967), best known for playing...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 25, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
The Canadian artist Rodney Graham, born in 1949, has just died of cancer. I met him in 2016 at the Dijon Consortium where he had staged an extraordinary exhibition. He invented exceptional stories through his videos and installations which transported us to...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 20, 2022 | Art Fair, Art Market, Video interviews
High expectations It’s the question on everyone’s lips: with the arrival of the contemporary art fair Paris+ by Art Basel, which is now organized by the Swiss behemoth, what are the real changes? Expectations are high if we are to believe the mass of collector and...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 17, 2022 | Art Market, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/Z4pfMDkzLy8 24 times more paintings than sculptures 16,000: this is the number of painted works officially produced by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and inventoried in his catalogue raisonné. In 2000 the modern art historian Werner Spies staged the first...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/42LTjqCHHVw Obsessions Art history shows us that, regardless of the era, sometimes artists can find one another through certain obsessions. This autumn the Louis Vuitton Foundation looks at a textbook case of how two extraordinary sensibilities can...
