by Judith Benhamou | Sep 28, 2016 | Architecture, Film
Share this articleApproaching his 72nd birthday, Rem Koolhaas is a global star of architecture. He’s the winner of the Pritzker Prize, the “Nobel” of architecture, the Praemium Imperiale, awarded to him by the Japanese emperor in 2003, the Golden Lion at the 2010...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 25, 2016 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Paintings, Video interviews
René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte René Magritte ‘This is not a pipe’. It appears on t-shirts, mugs, and in advertising slogans and has become the biggest cliché of modern art. René Magritte (1898-1967),...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 22, 2016 | Art Market, Collection, Fair, Gallery, Video interviews
Nicolas Fernandez/ Berlin Biennale Lucie Stahl/ Berlin Biennale Berlin Biennale/ Anna Udenberg Julien Ceccaldi At me Collectors Room xavier Laboulbenne Erwin Wurm Pieter Schoolwerth Twice a year, the city of Berlin organises events in the domain of contemporary art....
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 19, 2016 | Artists, Biennale, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Share this articleThere is one school of contemporary art, going back to Marcel Duchamp, that involves playing pranks and ridiculing everything encountered in this absurd world of ours. You could be led to believe, on first appearances, that Scandinavian artists...
by Judith Benhamou | Sep 15, 2016 | Art Market, Auction, Furniture, Old masters
R de Balkany R de Balkany R de Balkany Cabinet pietra dura. R de Balkany R de Balkany Auction houses love to make us dream by creating stories about the objects on sale and the personalities who owned them. You might say it has become their core marketing strategy....