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...
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...
Barbara Hepworth at the Fondation Maeght: Harmony of Curves and Hollows in the Pine Grove
https://youtu.be/x5XqBEE-pWY Never before attempted “Here, something never before attempted is being tried: to create the universe, create instinctively, and through love, the universe in which modern art might find both its rightful...
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles : Happy Days
Letizia Battaglia Often, when artists first begin documenting their lives through photography, they naturally start by capturing their happy days. But what comes next—in both their work and their lives—usually ends up telling another story....
Cézanne in Aix: If You Miss This Exhibit, You’ll Have Failed Your Summer
https://youtu.be/QhDVh8aFuMs Aix en Provence It’s a safe bet that had Cézanne not been from Aix-en-Provence, the history of modern art would have gone down a very different path. In the final years of his life, the painter—whom Picasso would...
Matisse / Picasso: And the Winner Is…
https://youtu.be/LsfgADzyBrQ?si=nZtUVPDOw8dq4Whm Several Matisse At the most recent Art Basel fair in Basel, paintings by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) could be found at several booths. London- and New York-based gallery Luxembourg & Co, for...
Art Basel in Basel: A Market Between Uncertainty and Resilience
Shielded form the world's Chaos? As Art Basel in Basel opened on June 17, with its festive spirit, endless dinners, and an exceptional program of museum exhibitions held across the city, one might have thought for a moment that the art market...
New York: The $70 Million Giacometti Flop and the Rise of Women Artists
https://youtu.be/-u4wjReoASs Missed rendezvous The art market is a sprawling machine that brings together works of the mind—paintings, sculptures—with people who are so moved by such expressions that they are willing to invest significant sums...
Do You Know Marguerite, Matisse’s Daughter and Favorite Model?
A single face https://youtu.be/9mD4F33pn-E A long journey centered around a single face. Imagine this: Between 1901 and 1924 alone, Henri Matisse completed more than one hundred portraits of Marguerite (1894-1982), his eldest child. Matisse...
Giacometti, Fontana, Cézanne…The Season’s Treasures in a Market Under Self-examination
Uncertainty What value do we place on art in times of immense uncertainty? Will Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculptures now be seen as safe havens? Or will they be cast aside due to income losses, especially on the stock market? These...
Centre Pompidou, Suzanne Valadon, Spiritual Mother of Alice Neel
https://youtu.be/pqnNVOd4QII Model for Toulouse-Lautrec Art history remembers her first and foremost as a model, who posed during several years for illustrious painters like Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...