https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Guggenheim Not all artists merit the Guggenheim. The famous spiral-shaped building in New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is a death knell for those whose career is half-baked, overly repetitive and...
Jehan Chu: “The NFT will be the paintbrush and canvas of the future”
https://youtu.be/je_XkQBXLfg Jehan Chu Jehan Chu, founder of a crypto-investments company in Hong Kong called Kenetic Capital, worked at Sotheby’s in a former life before becoming a freelance art advisor and then dedicating himself...
Contemporary art seen from Sao Paulo (to Arles)
Turbulent events Brazil continues to face turbulent events. In 2021, while the vast country was still in shock from the chaos of the pandemic but also amid major upheavals from the reign of Bolsonaro, who openly declared his antipathy towards...
Louis XV is back at Versailles
https://youtu.be/zVnd6yDx_co The death of 3 generation It is a very French exploration in that it is the stuff of legends: the childhood of a king. It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like during the early years of the life of Louis XV...
Anri Sala: Two minutes before death against the soundtrack of a clarinet
https://youtu.be/Vn-WM_Uzuz8 The shuttle Challenger On 28 January 1986 the American space shuttle Challenger exploded, exactly 73 seconds after take-off. There were seven astronauts on board, including Ronald McNair, a seasoned musician who...
Art Basel Miami Beach: A unique artistic ecosystem
20 years ago Art Basel emerged at Miami Beach 20 years ago and since then no other art fair has made such a powerful impact on a city. For a long time fun-loving Miami has been on the receiving end of bad press, and the fair, since the early...
Travel through space with Yves Klein
https://youtu.be/OZeB6jA9KY4 With Saint Rita of Cascia “Saint Rita of Cascia, patron of impossible and desperate cases, thank you for all the powerful, decisive, marvellous help that you have given me up to now (…) Even if I am personally...
At the New York auctions there were paintings for keen connoisseurs or speculators
Vandalism On 18 November 2022 two environmental activists from the French movement known as “Dernière Rénovation” (Last Renovation) poured orange acrylic paint over a massive stainless steel sculpture, an equestrian self-portrait by American...
Tate Modern: this is how art history is made. Cézanne’s influence from Gauguin to Lucian Freud
Visual gust of wind Seeing a substantial exhibition of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is like being caught up in a visual gust of wind. There’s the beauty of the reddish and green hues that caress you, but also the simplified or even crude forms, the...
Centre Pompidou: the beautiful people of Alice Neel
https://youtu.be/wYDfZVjsCBg Immortality Without wanting to resort to big words, having your portrait done is a good way of attempting to achieve immortality. In New York it was Andy Warhol who, in the 1960s, brought the discipline back in...
The new natural illusions of Olafur Eliasson
https://youtu.be/ohJSf3ag_9Q A new vocabulary There are certain artists – and they are rare – who are capable of inventing an entire vocabulary. This is true of the Icelandic-Danish artist who lives in Berlin, Olafur Eliasson (born in 1967),...
Tribute to Rodney Graham (1949-2022)
The Canadian artist Rodney Graham, born in 1949, has just died of cancer. I met him in 2016 at the Dijon Consortium where he had staged an extraordinary exhibition. He invented exceptional stories through his videos and installations...