by Judith Benhamou | May 12, 2020 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Silence It’s exceedingly difficult to get insiders to talk about the current evolution of the art market. A number of them refuse to make any statement, others tend to stick to abstract analyses, while a third group prefers to remain anonymous. These attitudes can...
by Judith Benhamou | May 8, 2020 | Artists, Contemporary art, Venice Biennale, Video interviews
Between England and Colombia Oscar Murillo is a young artist (born in 1986) who lives between London and the village where he was born in Colombia, and he truly is a multifaceted figure. Sharing the Turner Prize There’s been a lot of talk about him lately,...
by Judith Benhamou | May 4, 2020 | Abstraction, Art History, Artists, Conceptual art, Contemporary art
In Japan The Korean artist Lee Ufan (born in 1936), has lived in Japan since he was 20 years old. He has been the subject of various major exhibitions, such as the Guggenheim in New York in 2011 and the park at the Château de Versailles in 2014. I’ve interviewed him...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 30, 2020 | Art History, Contemporary art, Video interviews
A Living encyclopedia of 20th century art The art historian and curator Germano Celant(1940-2020) has passed away on 29 April 2020, after contracting the coronavirus . He was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century art, which he engaged with avidly. He...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 29, 2020 | Artists, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Tirana in bright colors His first great exploit dates from the 2000s. Edi Rama (born in 1964) was the newly elected mayor of Tirana, the capital of Albania (a country with 2.8 million inhabitants), when he decided to have a number of the building facades in his poor,...
