Paris is on full view At a time when Paris is on full view to the world following the Olympic Games and ahead of Art Basel Paris, which is taking place for the first time at the Grand Palais, French gallerists are redoubling their ambitions...
A different idea of the territory. In the land of Edouard Glissant
Speaking of nations Land, territory, country. In living memory, from the United States to the Middle East, the Mediterranean to the Channel, politicians have always had on the tips of their tongues these words that speak of nations, of...
In New York the art market is seeking a new lease of life
Closure of galleries With the effect of upheavals around the world, the contemporary art market is in the process of restructuring itself. The first evolution is the closure of numerous galleries. In New York, the global epicentre of art sales,...
The Kabakovs are still “Back in the U.S.S.R” with a diversion to Paris
Pompidou is closing In September 2025 the Centre Pompidou is due to close its doors for the next five years. Yes, the building is in need of substantive restorations, but the news of such a long disappearance from the French art landscape of...
Chillida: the return of the Spanish contemporary art star
Museum quality The most powerful galleries on the planet currently have the luxury of staging exhibitions that could just as well be taking place in museums. Not everything is for sale and the visit inevitably whips up desire in art lovers...
When Turner’s landscapes resemble a Rothko
Like a firework It’s like when you’re awaiting the grand finale at the fireworks display: the Turner exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco has 80 works by the illustrious British master (1775-1851) and has travelled from London’s Tate...
Bill Viola: Homage to the inventor of grandiose videos
https://youtu.be/SRY_n2ujxdc?si=iRMyLW6B9toIUzgQ Pioneer Even today, in the eyes of the general public, what is known as video art (which in fact takes many forms) still seems like the poor relation compared to sculpture and painting. But if...
Louise Bourgeois: Roman Holiday
https://youtu.be/vtlKXdKSrWQ?si=5SD2JbAj9vAeokVx Treasure of Roman art As soon as you arrive there’s a powerful visual impact. We are at the Palazzo Borghese, a treasure of Roman art, a villa created by the Cardinal Scipion Borghese...
Chinese artists who are inventing a new way of painting
Extraordinary inventiveness There are certain periods when artists from a particular country show evidence of an extraordinary inventiveness. The training they’ve followed, along with the political and sociological conditions in which they...
Luc Tuymans: the “crime” paintings that will disappear in under a year
https://youtu.be/0Q4T5z_5TJA?si=mrsO1XLwxMLaNU32 Countdown The scene takes place at the Louvre. The countdown has already begun. In less than a year it will be nothing more than a memory. Imagine a fresco doomed to obliteration, handmade by...
Matthew Barney: “football is an extension of American culture”
https://youtu.be/rVSvuNMzwGs?si=ykGUndyrnrPzgP7W In the history of contemporay art The American artist Matthew Barney (born in 1967) created an extraordinary series of five films between 1994 and 2002 that have gone down in the history of...
At the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris, the extraordinary parallel universes of Lu Yang
https://youtu.be/gj-I4KGDGKY Otaku In Japan they call them Otaku, referring to the young people who stay shut away in their bedrooms lit only by a computer screen that transports them to invented worlds. The Chinese artist who lives in...