https://youtu.be/13JxbPM3yDE Golden Lion I have a confession to make. I disliked Anne Imhof’s German pavilion in 2017, called “Faust”, which won the Golden Lion that year displaying a slick showcase of beautiful and disillusioned youths,...
New York contemporary art sales: the impact of trends still plays a role in the art market even during a pandemic
Emerging from the crisis New York is emerging from the public health crisis. And the art market is following suit. At a time when those who had been vaccinated were permitted to walk around without masks in the United States, the Frieze...
Inside François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce: the power of figurative painting and Ando’s architecture
https://youtu.be/Zn9YIvr9p5I A poor rural family What more is there to aspire to when you’re an 84-year-old billionaire who was born into a poor rural family in a Breton village? The answer lies in the district of Les Halles in Paris...
Beyeler Foundation: Olafur Eliasson breaks down the walls of the museum to let in his eco dream
https://youtu.be/OxTr5dkWJNE His Sainte Victoire During a public health crisis, the Beyeler Foundation could have contented itself with displaying its Rothkos, Monets, Giacomettis… from the permanent collection amassed by its founder, the...
Frieze New York: the first American fair since the start of the pandemic, between social conscience and elitism
No foreigners No foreign visitors, or only very few… Frieze New York, the first fair to effectively take place on American soil since the outbreak of the pandemic, is receiving very few - if any - foreign visitors between 5 and 9 May 2021. The...
The sun never sets on the Yayoi Kusama Empire: from her psychiatric hospital the 92-year-old artist continues to organize a multitude of exhibitions
https://youtu.be/rRZR3nsiIeA Ultra sensitivity The job of the artist doesn’t call for the same virtues as those required of mere mortals. In the modern and contemporary period, for the greatest of painters, severe psychiatric problems are not...
Vietnamese modern art: between Hong Kong and Paris the market for the school of painting that emerged from the colonial occupation is booming
The colonial past While the world re-examines its colonial past and condemns the occupation by former empires of vast swaths of distant territory, while supporters of “cancel culture” topple through the sheer force of their voices the statues...
Our brain is a battlefield: the theory behind the exhibition of the future. By Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar
https://youtu.be/-pI4A56LDfI Neologism Messenger RNA, mutated virus, comorbidity, NFTs, blockchain, quantum theory, big data... The world in 2021 is filled – along with our heads – with an assortment of new words which, prior to the public...
Justin Sun: the crypto entrepreneur who will soon be investing 100 million dollars in art. Exclusive interview
https://youtu.be/cGAPJhvLlA4 30 years old He’s thirty years old and he’s in a hurry. It’s been scarcely six months since NFTs were created and already Justin Sun, the Hong Kong-based Chinese founder of the cryptocurrency platform Tron,...
1932: Picasso’s most fascinating year is even attracting crypto-investors . Christie’s pushes up his value
The ultimate art-market star Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the 20th century’s star painter, but he is also the ultimate art-market star of the early 21st century. Looking at the numbers, according to the Artprice database 100 euros invested on...
Sex and painting: the great art of love. An exhibition and a book that could only exist in France
Mass sanitization These are times of mass sanitization. Long before we wore masks and handwashing justifiably became a global obsession, in another field the presence of sex in art was banished from the major themes of exhibitions in the...
William Kentridge: the Mudam in Luxembourg displays his absolute masterpiece, a projection across 21 metres
The exception of Luxembourg Luxembourg is known for its unique system of banking. What is less well known is that the duchy is also unique in terms of its museums compared to France, since this type of cultural institution is currently open...