Richard Prince (Choice of Edouard Carmignac) The online world In our new experience of the relationship between art and the internet, the online world has won. The sensation produced by the phone or computer screen almost always predominates...
Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno: a luminous dialogue in Paris
https://youtu.be/iWyIlMBh0lQ Les colonnes de Buren Reducing Daniel Buren to coloured lines on a white background would be like closing your eyes when looking at his art. In France, the artist (born in 1938) and now a veritable institution is...
“You don’t do business with a buyer in sandals and a t-shirt in the same way as in a New York gallery”: the American art market’s exodus to chic seaside resorts
We are on Long Island. Beyond the 45 kilometres of Hamptons coastline, about two hours from New York by car, there is a unique microclimate in America. With an atmosphere known for being tasteful and cool, surrounded by cornfields and old...
The He Museum designed by Tadao Ando: a new art colossus in China and a big buyer of artworks
Museum depressingly closed During a period that’s been turbulent on all fronts, where numerous museums around the world remain depressingly closed while some, notably in the United States, have been forced to sell pieces from their collections...
Balthus: 144 drawings and paintings by the great and controversial painter to be auctioned in Paris
Woman and muse The French politician Talleyrand is attributed with the saying: “Behind every great man there’s a woman.” In observing art history, we might add that behind numerous great artists there are many women. Sublime source of...
“I’m No Longer Here”: a masterpiece on Netflix exalting popular Mexican counterculture
https://youtu.be/rVv5X5iooB4 Poetry & Photography Exile, immigration, and the sublimated street aesthetic. These are themes that are very often addressed in contemporary art. “I’m No Longer Here” is a film currently available to watch on...
Meanwhile in Shanghai: the incredible frenzy for contemporary art
Art021 Shanghai Art week Shanghai Art Week takes place every year in November and over time it has become an important date in the global art market calendar. Last year it coincided with the opening of the Centre Pompidou Shanghai (See the...
Lockdown: Francesco Clemente has reinvented himself in an extraordinary way
https://youtu.be/nVEw7ivxy_g A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art world, one will inevitably have heard of Francesco Clemente since the late 1970s. He is a famous exponent of the Italian art movement known as the...
Altdorfer at the Louvre :The artists who are the best at marketing are the ones who make history
Biographers and trends No one should believe that art history presents a fair view of artistic creation. Artists’ legacies wax and wane according to the changing tastes of biographers and trends. Such is the case for the German artist Albrecht...
Sotheby’s: maintaining positive results at the expense of transparency at auction
Huge responsibility The major auction houses have a huge responsibility with regards to the entire art market. Through the publication of their official auction results – combined with market databases such as Artnet or Artprice acting as...
Manifesta in Marseille: the very political European biennial closes prematurely after facing challenges from the ex-mayor and Covid
https://youtu.be/OzL5Wq1KGQc European Dutch Biennal Manifesta is a Europe-wide contemporary art biennial that takes place each time in a different city, having originally been Dutch and directed by Hedwig Fijen. After having seen the edition...
Lee Krasner at the Guggenheim Bilbao: the rediscovery of an extraordinary painter eclipsed by the creative power of her husband
https://youtu.be/giE0LqylYOA Heroes who die young In art history, posterity favours misfortune and heroes who die young. We love Van Gogh, who died at 37 without having sold a single artwork. We love Nicolas de Staël, who killed himself due to...