by Judith Benhamou | Dec 20, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition
Forms of sounds What forms can we give to sounds? It’s a strange question, but it was posed in the early 20th century by major artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In our current age there is another artist, the Swiss American who lives in London Christian...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/43obYNEbLSc Like good old days At the Louvre you’d think we were back in the good old days before Covid: mass tourism has resurfaced with its crowds and queues under the Pyramid, but we’ve also seen the return of an extremely ambitious programme. The...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 9, 2022 | Art Fair, Art Market, Photography
Letizia Battaglia The setting of prices Each field of artistic creation is governed, in market terms, by unique rules. So the principles that dictate the setting of prices in photography have nothing to do with the market for paintings, for example. Paris Photo, which...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 4, 2022 | Art History, Paintings, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/wYDfZVjsCBg Immortality Without wanting to resort to big words, having your portrait done is a good way of attempting to achieve immortality. In New York it was Andy Warhol who, in the 1960s, brought the discipline back in fashion like no one else....
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 25, 2022 | Art History, Art Market, Auction
https://youtu.be/YjkhT5Pues4 1 billion Rarely has a sale been kept secret for so long. On 9 and 10 November Christie’s will be selling 184 lots in New York taken from the collection belonging to the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, who died in 2018 at the age of...
