by Judith Benhamou | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/T43ZyK5DrCM The visionary Ambroise Vollard Art history is fuelled by certain myths that ignite collectors’ imaginations. One of these is the “Vollard Suite”. The visionary Ambroise Vollard, one of the great dealers in the history of modern art whose...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 10, 2020 | Architecture, Contemporary art, Video art, Video interviews
Seal levels One of the barrage of threats to contemporary mankind is the threat of rising sea levels. Threat in Venice They say this will be such that by the end of the century it is due to trigger the migration of over a billion people. And if there’s one...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 3, 2020 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
Cancel culture At a time when art which addresses societal issues has never been so relevant, exhibiting it in institutions has never proved so difficult. In late August in New York, at the epicentre of what is known as “cancel culture”, a movement which aims to...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
From a little village In a little village in the Alpes de Haute Provence called Château-Arnoux, the ten-year-old son of a school teacher once had the wild dream of becoming the pope. Tens of tonnes of steel Fast-forward 69 years and Bernar Venet (Bernard...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 24, 2020 | Art History, Collection, Collector, Old masters
Drawing specialist Louis-Antoine Prat is a drawing specialist who happens to be very French. Firstly because the Parisian taught the subject of French drawings at the École du Louvre for no less than 40 years. And secondly because he decided to start collecting...
