by Judith Benhamou | Jan 21, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Only women artists May 2009 marked a milestone in the history of contemporary art. That year, over the course of eight months, an exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou which was the largest ever staged to showcase the work of women artists from the 20th...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 17, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/0VAAjDI4Xzw Striking totems The first vision is striking. Entering the largest room at the Moco in Montpellier (3 hours and 15 minutes away from Paris on the fast train) is like discovering a celebratory space of some little-known, ancient and...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 29, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photos, Pinault Fondation, Video art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/lcQghJQVwRw The extraordinary new production of Video art Video art, like painting or sculpture, is an extraordinary mode of expression and one that is widely explored in the contemporary period. Two great artists have created new milestones in the...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 25, 2023 | Art History, Old masters, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/LF_wYDcCHnw La Grande Galerie How long has it been since you walked through the permanent collections, the holy of holies at the Louvre, the Grande Galerie? Across 460 metres stretches a display of one of the grandest episodes in the history of art,...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 20, 2023 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/uuXfYPW7Fp0 Four eyes Four eyes open wide onto our current age. For close to 30 years Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen born in 1961, Ingar Dragset born in 1969), two Scandinavian artists who live in Berlin, have been creating a kind of...