High expectations It’s the question on everyone’s lips: with the arrival of the contemporary art fair Paris+ by Art Basel, which is now organized by the Swiss behemoth, what are the real changes? Expectations are high if we are to believe the...
Paris: the impressive show of Picasso’s sculptures at a commercial gallery
https://youtu.be/Z4pfMDkzLy8 24 times more paintings than sculptures 16,000: this is the number of painted works officially produced by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and inventoried in his catalogue raisonné. In 2000 the modern art historian Werner...
Frieze week: the London art scene is hyperactive despite the post-Brexit crisis
London is resilient If Great Britain has been hit by a social and economic crisis, the largest art fair in the country seems to be faring well. On 12 October Frieze opened in Regent’s Park, with its two components, Frieze Masters (128...
This October Hamad Al Thani and Gordon Getty are selling their collections of classical decorative art. The anticipated awaking of a sleeping beauty of the art market
A Porsche and a Boulle desk “Thirty years ago, when you wanted to show you were successful, first you’d buy a Porsche, followed by a Boulle desk, but those days are long gone, and familiarity with these high-quality furnishings has been lost.”...
Fondazione Prada in Venice: Taryn Simon’s conversation piece is a journey through the human brain
https://youtu.be/JweHtN8cZqg Large amount of data The American artist Taryn Simon (born in 1975) has a singular visual oeuvre which always finds unique ways of addressing serious phenomena. She is adept at compiling large amounts of data to...
Kokoschka: A modern artist who foreshadowed the painting of today
https://youtu.be/_BT4Hum8Tm0 A life- size doll He was no stranger to heartbreak. The painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), also known as “Kokoschka the madman”, embarked upon a tortured relationship between 1912 and 1914 with one of the mythical...
Biennale de Lyon: an impressive journey through the ruins of contemporary society
Beirut https://youtu.be/wAV6ENMD32Y People never forget Beirut. Take Sam Bardaouil. Born in Lebanon, this world-class art historian is curating the sixteenth Lyon Biennale together with Till Fellrath, on show until 31 December. The duo, who...
Wolfgang Tillmans at Moma in New York: an opening of total art
https://youtu.be/qtk20JhAhbg The experience For a long time photography was considered to be a secondary mode of expression. But we might say that in the early 21st century not only is this kind of consideration obsolete, but also that the...
Hydra: one of the most beautiful artworks Jeff Koons has ever made will be destroyed after 31 October
https://youtu.be/EylV6niUHss Guilty There is an old slaughterhouse on one of the chicest Greek islands. On this small landmass with no cars, where donkeys still carry the heaviest loads, the American painter Brice Marden regularly stays...
Bourse de Commerce, Paris. Philippe Parreno has created a masterpiece: the artwork for the ultra-present
https://youtu.be/h7l4KUEc3Ks Platform for experimentation In Paris, the spectacular rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce is currently turning into one of the major platforms for experimentation in contemporary art. Following on from the giant wax...
Ali Cherri: A 21st-century romantic from the Venice Biennale to the National Gallery in London and even the Cannes Film Festival
https://youtu.be/hyQUAN_lEwI Proust on his deathbed In his studio opposite his desk he has displayed the reproduction of a portrait of Marcel Proust on his deathbed. The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (born in 1976) talks about how when he...
Centre Pompidou: Diving into Tatiana Trouvé’s immense dream drawings
https://youtu.be/3XqOHlB25_8 In the corner of your mind Imagine that you were to give form, all in one place, to the fragments of ideas that you cherish, the ones that inhabit a certain part of your brain. Not the ideas that feed into...