https://youtu.be/YFhT55y8xLs Love is the message... Let’s use the big words: Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) is probably one of the most relevant artists of our time thanks to his creation of three films headed by “Love is the message. The message...
Fiac : Paris’s powerful return to the global scene of the contemporary art market
Several art markets Seen in light of recent events, it could be said that there’s not one but rather several art markets. The star work in Paris: Calder So what’s the common thread between the sale for 21.4 million euros at Sotheby’s in London...
Frieze: Brexit + Covid. How is London coping?
Catastrophic Brexit Seen from Paris, in terms of the art market, the end to Britain’s membership of the European Union seems catastrophic. When Brexit was announced, many multinational galleries like Zwirner and Levy-Gorvy almost instantly...
Edmund de Waal: follow the artist’s guided tour through the Musée Nissim de Camondo, to celebrate the memory of a vanished fascinating family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvCcyJkZbsg Moise de Camondo First it was a house. From 1911 Moïse de Camondo used his mansion located in the Plaine-Monceau district of Paris as a place to house his collection of French art. Then it...
Alex Katz: the video interview with the 94-year-old painter who hates being bored
https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Same since the 1950s Imagine an artist who – since the 1950s – has always painted in the same style, with more or less the same subjects, using very similar colours. This is the American artist Alex Katz (born in...
Art Basel: The spectacular resilience of the biggest contemporary art fair in the world
Resilience Resilience. Since the onset of the public health crisis sweeping the entire planet, this is a word that has been used extensively – and not always correctly. But if there’s a field that truly merits this label, it’s the art market....
Damien Hirst: a new series of works which are photogenic but devoid of meaning
https://youtu.be/hbhprpFeE_0 Large scale and large number It must be the sensation of the season in Paris. At the Fondation Cartier, Damien Hirst (born in 1965), the superstar from the 1990s and former leader of the Young British Artists, is...
The artist Ser Serpas, 26, unveiled at Luma Zurich and the Pinault collection: a video interview
https://youtu.be/VnR1g5Y0BoY Dumas, Doig and Serpas Ser Serpas is 26 years old and she is astonishingly free. This young woman, who was born in Los Angeles and whose mother is a police officer, is one of the stars of the Pinault...
Les Rencontres d’Arles: The American ideal of sexuality is rooted in the American ideal of masculinity
Major Phenomena We didn’t expect to go to Arles in Provence to learn that society is being rocked by major phenomena relating to gender or the perceptions of black men and women. Around Arles While these subjects have already been covered...
An homage to Christian Boltanski
14 July 2021 All his life Christian Boltanski was obsessed by death. At his final large-scale exhibition, a retrospective conceived as a single artwork in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, with its premonitory title “Faire son temps” (“Life in the making”), he spoke...
In Venice at the Prada Foundation, Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grimani: the three most beautiful exhibitions on show
https://youtu.be/6MAhlc0J7Uc Not the architecture Biennale No, it wasn’t the architecture biennale that made me rush to Venice. I initially found it intellectually stimulating, with all the societal and ecological questions it...
Les Lalanne in Versailles and Williamstown. The prodigious rise of their ostriches, cabbages and sheep at auction
Stephan Zweig “It was a doll’s house, this Little Trianon (…) This ‘Anglo-Chinese garden’ was to represent, not merely nature, but the whole of nature. In the microcosm of a few square kilometers, there was to be a quasi-microscopic...