by Judith Benhamou | Mar 20, 2016 | Art History, Art Market, Collection, Modern Art, Museum
JBH Reports In art there are those mythical places believed to have changed the course of history. Until the nineteenth century, if you considered yourself a serious painter you were obliged to make an initiatory journey to Italy on the trail of the Renaissance and...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 18, 2016 | Artists, Contemporary art, Emerging artist, Exhibition, Museum
Neil Beloufa Laura Poitras Laura Poitras Neil Beloufa Neil Beloufa It’s a textbook case. In New York two major museums are currently showing two different artists exploring more or less exactly the same subject: the saturation of images in society and the omnipresence...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 14, 2016 | Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition
JBH Reports It’s always something of a disappointment when visiting the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to see the size of the exhibition spaces. After all for exemple Getty owns one of the finest photography collections in the world. But in fact as Glenn Phillips, Head...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 14, 2016 | Book, Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photography
Mapplethorpe Book-Cover Mapplethorpe Interior of R Mapplethorpe house Mapplethorpe Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was a great artist, not just a great photographer. He will forever be etched in memory as someone who immortalised in black and white those perfectly...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 11, 2016 | Museum
Picasso Picasso Picasso studio Picasso Like some bizarre coincidence, you turn up at a museum, meet the exhibition’s co-curator, and as if by some power of mimicry, she could easily pass for one of the muses of the said artist. So it happened with Cécile Godefroy,...
