by Judith Benhamou | Jun 19, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Countdown The scene takes place at the Louvre. The countdown has already begun. In less than a year it will be nothing more than a memory. Imagine a fresco doomed to obliteration, handmade by one of the most prominent painters of our time. This is the astonishing...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 19, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/rVSvuNMzwGs?si=ykGUndyrnrPzgP7W In the history of contemporay art The American artist Matthew Barney (born in 1967) created an extraordinary series of five films between 1994 and 2002 that have gone down in the history of contemporary art. His moving...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 19, 2024 | Art History, Exhibition, Impressionnism, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/0e-f27oq0Ww?si=El27_JdL–oZYNS3 Chocolate boxes and greeting cards In our collective unconscious, impressionism is often linked to childhood memories, flashbacks featuring bad reproductions of images on chocolate boxes, cushions or greetings...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 16, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/gj-I4KGDGKY Otaku In Japan they call them Otaku, referring to the young people who stay shut away in their bedrooms lit only by a computer screen that transports them to invented worlds. The Chinese artist who lives in Tokyo, Lu Yang (born in...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 12, 2024 | Art Basel, Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Always dynamic The art market is showing signs of an unusual level of dynamism. In times of growth, galleries with their structures of all sizes fearlessly strike out to conquer new territories, from China to the Middle East. And in times of recession, as is the case...