by Judith Benhamou | Sep 30, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtube.com/shorts/YYT5sVEZMwQ?si=nijLyFSzf-8HR_yd Spirit of conquest always As the general context fuels many concerns across the world, the spirit of conquest still seems to be the watchword in the art market. In Hong Kong, for example, Sotheby’s and...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 24, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Noticed by Aragon and Dali Imagine an artist who was noticed from 1930 by the poet Louis Aragon and the painter Salvador Dali. He would later join the surrealist group of André Breton. Imagine a painter whose body of work would be entirely made up of 120 pictures...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 22, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Paris is on full view At a time when Paris is on full view to the world following the Olympic Games and ahead of Art Basel Paris, which is taking place for the first time at the Grand Palais, French gallerists are redoubling their ambitions (See here the report: the...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 16, 2024 | Art History, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/5XOitu1I8ag?si=x5wNqG6lvNwM3Yov It’s an image of a young man. He’s depicted in three quarter view, having taken off his shirt to reveal his robust shoulders. As though offering up another gift to the viewer, in his arms he carries a basket of fruit....
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 11, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, literature, Modern Art, Video interviews
Speaking of nations Land, territory, country. In living memory, from the United States to the Middle East, the Mediterranean to the Channel, politicians have always had on the tips of their tongues these words that speak of nations, of supremacy but also of hope,...