by Judith Benhamou | Feb 21, 2022 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/a1VAviBtf5Y Finally the Venice Biennale Amid the great lethargy that’s descended on the world over the past two years, things have continued to advance, albeit at a slower pace and in a different way, including in art. This year finally sees the...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 16, 2022 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/OwcJ8lJnmVg Death’s triumph In what is known as classical art, painters and sculptors used to amuse themselves by creating vanitas works: dead game lying on a table, flowers or fruit from different seasons arranged within the same...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 14, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/RVCU9Qd68gg Romanticism Artists can have a kind of 21st-century romanticism, if we can call it that, which means that some of them aren’t satisfied with recognition. They’ll call into question all the signs that bring them value and credibility a...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 9, 2022 | Photography
Magnum There can be no doubt that the photographer Jonas Bendiksen (born in 1977) is nothing if not audacious. This Norwegian member of Magnum, the press agency founded during the postwar period by names as illustrious as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 6, 2022 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Paris again Paris is in the process of once again becoming, with dizzying speed, a major hub for the global art market. On 26 January 2022 an announcement was made by the organizers of Art Basel that they would be taking over as the international contemporary art fair...
