https://youtu.be/JUWPy3kMnGA Once upon a time in New York Once upon a time there were two New Yorkers of different ages, races, and careers, who would produce over a short time period – between 1984 and 1985 – extraordinary paintings made in...
Raza: the first substantial exhibition of a great figure in modern Indian art at the Centre Pompidou
Centre of the art World For a long while it was Europe, then the United States, that were at the centre of the art world’s preoccupations in terms of modern artistic creation. But gradually, spurred on by new, less self-centred notions, and -...
Art Basel Hong Kong: the great return to the international market
Draconian isolation Times have been hard. For three years draconian isolation measures have been imposed in China and, to a lesser extent, in its commercial forward base, Hong Kong, while the effervescent city has also been the site of marked...
Marcel Proust: how the cult around the author of La Recherche has produced a booming market
I used to go to bed early “Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure” (“For a long time I used to go to bed early”) … So begins the extraordinary story of a young boy on the verge of falling asleep, immersed in darkness, having to wait for his...
Faith Ringgold and Picasso: little-known connections, excellent exhibition
https://youtu.be/-4Stf0ELfDU Moma, October 2019 In October 2019, when Moma reopened after carrying out extension works, the most striking gesture in the vast rearrangement of the permanent collections was to place right opposite the treasure of...
Tefaf Maastricht: Adam and Eve in 1500, Chagall in 1917, Annette Giacometti in 1966… When art history meets the art market
Disruption There’s disruption across the entire planet. China-US relations are tense. A war has been raging for the past year on European soil, social movements shake the continent. The climate threat is closing in on all sides... But the art...
Contemporary art effervescence in Madrid during the ARCO fair
Global fairs The global art fair calendar is looking very full. Just after the Californian version of Frieze, which took place in Los Angeles in Santa Monica’s former airport, and just before Art Dubai (from 1 to 5 March 2023), the Arco fair is...
Sugimoto’s foundation in Japan: where he honours the sun and awaits the end of our civilization
https://youtu.be/5QDiYUJoRuY Enoura Observatory Odawarra, in the province of Kanagawa, is a coastal town 73 kilometres from Tokyo. It is here that the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (born in 1948), who lives in New York, decided to open a foundation...
Vermeer in Amsterdam: the beautiful record-setting exhibition
https://youtu.be/BxboiI3WV3E All about intimacy Talking about the great Dutch painter Vermeer (1632-1675) in terms of numerical data seems like a misinterpretation. This art legend, all delicacy and detail, known for his descriptions...
Ugo Rondinone in Geneva: love and death shared with Hodler and Vallotton
https://youtu.be/ZXcus1rGJxQ Global Ugo Rondinone (1964) is one of the star artists on the global contemporary art scene. The Swiss national is represented by six galleries around the world. He works primarily in the fields of sculpture and...
A meeting with Lee Ufan in his Japanese studio
https://youtu.be/1LrnSLhWSqE Erudition and execution “The act of painting is the longest and the most difficult. You need the erudition of a composer, but also the execution required to play the violin.” Eugène Delacroix wrote these words in...
Tristan and Isolde with video: director Peter Sellars discusses his grandiose collaboration with Bill Viola on Wagner’s opera
https://youtu.be/bMHlM4vrKwU Breathtaking show https://youtu.be/gDnhefqIRoY For the sixth time, Paris’s opera house is staging Wagner’s great opera, Tristan and Isolde, accompanied by images from Bill Viola (born in 1951) and directed by the...