A physical fair It’s almost miraculous. In Dubai, the most commercial city in the United Arab Emirates, where restaurants are open and tourism is flourishing even when it’s coming from Israel (1), the first physical contemporary art...
Ahead of Art Dubai: Pay a visit to the exciting community studio of the country’s most high-profile artists
https://youtu.be/ZfsdRadJwx8 Abraham Accords Now that Dubai has become an exceptional place in the global context of a planet where travel is prohibited and in a diplomatic context which promotes exchanges – the “Abraham Accords”, the peace...
NFTs: understanding the very promising marriage of blockchain and the conventional art market
Technological progress and art history https://youtu.be/TejoBQ71Sv4 Contrary to all commonly held assumptions, art history is closely linked to the history of technological progress. It is said, for example, that Vermeer made use of the...
Munch at Sotheby’s: the master of anguish and solitude also had a huge talent for self-promotion
https://youtu.be/9X-BYm0iWxk The scream “The Scream” by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is a bit like the tree that conceals the forest. Or the story of how a painting conceived in four versions – which has become a cultural touchstone in...
French Renaissance books: a sale in Paris, an exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York, and the passions of businessmen
https://youtu.be/VhOaIxHu-Hc Non essential values? During a period of time that is both very market-centric and fairly disoriented, you might think that Renaissance literature, like art more generally, belongs to the category of...
Pierre Le Tan’s collection at Sotheby’s: the story of the influential Parisian dandy from Vietnamese painting to Hockney
Art and Life “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” People tend to slightly overuse this quote by the great Fluxus artist Robert Filliou (1926-1987), but it perfectly articulates a desire for an existence driven by the pursuit of...
Pol Taburet: out of the paintbrushes of young artists comes forth truth
https://youtu.be/nGIUbso_6x4 Crystal balls Visionaries. In times of crisis, humanity is always looking for people who seem able to reveal truths before everyone else. These modern-day magi, bereft of their crystal balls, may take the...
Louvre Abu Dhabi: what does the future hold for the spectacular museum with no Leonardo and the withdrawal of French museums in 6 years’ time?
https://youtu.be/LxH6-D2iYKA Appeared like by magic Contrary to the situation in France or in the United States, the Louvre Abu Dhabi closed its doors for only 100 days while the world was shaken by the pandemic. The museum appeared as if by...
Fiac Online: what is the art market’s “French Touch”?
https://youtu.be/NF-kLy44Hls Daft Punk In electronic music, people often refer to a unique genre known as “French touch” which enjoyed great international success by liberating itself from its traditional musical heritage, and whose...
Man Ray: a great collection at auction and a big controversy
https://youtu.be/b2NRc3C6Os0 Vintage or not In photography, from the moment images become a part of history they are divided by specialists into two kinds of prints. There are those that were made around the time the photograph...
Grenoble, Beijing, New York: Giorgio Morandi is the subject of worldwide fascination
https://youtu.be/RqF3Z5EjvpM Morandi mystery There is a sense of mystery about Morandi. For an artist who seems to have painted the same subject his entire life – carafes, bowls and vases in muted colours – from his tiny bedroom in Bologna,...
Anselm Kiefer’s spectacular renaissance and his installation at the Panthéon in Paris
https://youtu.be/7Ytoz98rzSk Gagosian Le Bourget It’s probably the biggest aesthetic show of emotion in France right now. At Gagosian’s space located in Le Bourget, at the heart of the air terminal complex for private jets, which is...