https://youtu.be/3KxxqAGvRkA Celebrations The museums of the world are vibrating in unison to the tune of Pablo Picasso. Sprawling celebrations are being staged to mark fifty years since the Spanish master’s death. In New York alone the art...
In Venice for the Biennale, the architecture constructs a little and deconstructs a lot: interviews
https://youtu.be/o547_HrrfJE Impactful buildings Architecture these days is facing two major strong and opposing trends. On the one hand it is expressed through its conquest of large-scale sites across the planet, through the construction of...
Van Gogh two months before his suicide
https://youtu.be/x199M1lHuRA The two very last month There is not only the Vermeer exhibition to see in Amsterdam. The Van Gogh Museum is also presenting an exceptional exhibition featuring 48 paintings and 25 drawings exclusively dedicated...
Basquiat is still the star of the New York contemporary sales but so is Rubens…
Increasingly expensive Against all odds the market for 20th and 21st century art is becoming increasingly expensive. This is what we learn from observing the recent results in the auction rooms of New York and London. We recall that in November...
The Marcel Broodthaers sale: the artist who has challenged the value principles of contemporary art
https://youtu.be/EHhigM53ILw Anton Herbert “It was in 1968. We were very conventional. We didn’t understand much at the time. Thanks to Broodthaers we received an electroshock. He was a fascinating man, a poet. He gave us his vision. He...
Berlin: Ulysses Jenkins, the first African American video artist. History’s missing link
The history of African American art https://youtu.be/DRwS_JCxbl0 He’s the missing link in the history of African American art: Ulysses Jenkins (born in 1946). We could locate him within this chronology between Charles White, a chronicler of...
Degas/Manet: two competing geniuses in Paris then New York
https://youtu.be/FDkRczRWVl0 More questions than answers The Musée d’Orsay has a particular fondness for Edgar Degas (1834-1917). We can understand why. He is one of the geniuses of modernity. However the last exhibition on him, “Degas à...
Venice: The melancholy of the 20th century told in 407 images at the Pinault collection
https://youtu.be/1eDs__BVvQg Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin, the unparalleled theoretician of photography, found the perfect words to describe, since the 1930s, our fascination with images from the past. He wrote: “For the last time the aura...
The colossal Sharjah Biennial : an inventory of new world futures
Global South If anyone mentions Sharjah, the contemporary art fans say: that’s where the Biennial is. People generally don’t know much about this emirate, which is part of the UAE, apart from the fact that it is wedged between the riches...
NFTs are entering Centre Pompidou and Lacma: what it teaches us. Cozomo de’ Medici explains his choices
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wol5yiNvQSo?feature=share Crash in cryptocurrencies The world is changing at a rapid pace, and its artistic values are changing with it. The first chapter of this story starts in November 2022 when we witnessed...
Thomas Demand in Paris: immersive conceptual trompe-l’oeil trickery
https://youtu.be/7hcG_sptgfI Like a little dead The German artist Thomas Demand (born in 1964) is a strange kind of photographer. He creates images that are all based on the same principle. In actuality, he has always created illusions of...
The new Ambani cultural centre: Mumbai the ‘maximum city’ and contemporary art
Big numbers The Indian Ambani family is famous for various reasons. Firstly due to the father, Mukesh, an astute businessman who is largely responsible for growing his own father’s textile business, to the point of turning it into a...