https://youtu.be/DmbhooI2Fs0?si=GhMFyMMphOegxZ3T Sacred monster of French abstraction We thought we knew everything about Pierre Soulages—until the Musée du Luxembourg unveiled a remarkable small exhibition devoted to his work on paper. Many...
Art Basel in Paris: The Euphoria of Abundance and the Giant Sad Frog
Sad Kermit A 19.5-meter-long inflatable frog presides, temporarily, over Place Vendôme in Paris. The American artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980) brought it to Paris with the help of his London gallerist Sadie Coles, at the invitation of Clément...
The Fondation Cartier returns to the heart of things — to the Palais Royal — with an architectural tour de force by Jean Nouvel
https://youtu.be/YlIWVJ8Ul7c Multidirectional vision Something remarkable happens when you arrive at this museum. Our gaze embraces everything — or almost everything — across three levels. The visitor is astonished by this multidirectional and...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: The Genius of Gerhard Richter on a Grand Scale
https://youtu.be/zxItYejrUOI Magic There is a certain magic that exceptional artists possess — the ability to renew their vocabulary endlessly while remaining unmistakably themselves. It is not so much that they crave novelty; rather,...
Irving Penn: A Historic Sale
https://youtu.be/k71kMCpGtt0?si=RZafvMibrTPPueHn Stylist of the female image Among the pantheon of modern fashion photographers stand two American talents turned legends: Richard Avedon (1923–2009) and Irving Penn (1917–2009). Among their many...
Panorama: Towards a New Model of Art Fair in Italy—Less Business-Oriented, More about Sharing
https://youtu.be/KnGmc6-kgdo Panorama Pozzuoli At a time when the art market is caught in a chasm of pessimism, a small four-day event in Italy breathed new life into the idea of the fair, animated by a fresh and invigorating spirit. Here...
How to Read the World Through Diagrams According to Rem Koolhaas. An other Radical Exhibition at Fondazione Prada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwNSOiLlTI Global celebrity The architect Rem Koolhaas (born in 1944) is a global celebrity in his field. Winner of the Pritzker Prize, he has signed such landmark projects as the CCTV tower in Beijing,...
When Giants Converse: The encounter of Lee Ufan and Michelangelo Pistoletto
https://youtu.be/9NV4pUxSQE4 In Lee Ufan Arles Through October 5, Lee Ufan Arles—the institution that the Korean artist opened in 2022 in the Camargue—presents “A Conversation Piece,” a dialogue between his own work and that of Michelangelo...
Frieze Seoul: in Seoul, the Soft Power Platform Faces the Art Market Crisis
Morning calm and soft power If there is one country that has mastered the art of soft power, it is South Korea. In just a few years, the “Land of Morning Calm” has become a global cultural reference point, especially for younger generations....
Maiolino at the Picasso Museum: The Golden Lion and Her Beautiful Clay Metaphors
https://youtu.be/Ng2-g8ImgEk?si=8_HaXiEnGgBXqQ2L The fate of women There’s a great deal embedded in the work of Anna Maria Maiolino. But nothing reveals itself at first glance. The artist—who, though born in Italy in 1942, has spent most of her...
Come Summer, Arles Blooms Into Capital of the International Scene, Now Featuring Wael Shawky and Ho Tzu Nyen
Van Gogh, tourist magnet The scorching sun, the Rhône winding majestically through the city, lively café terraces, Roman ruins, Van Gogh—the ever-present tourist magnet—and everywhere, down one alley or another, contemporary art exhibitions....
In a Little Paradise of Abstraction, on the Island of Porquerolles
https://youtu.be/ZnmHebgEktk?si=RdUeRVC8oeA5GzWS Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began...