Dormant mystery In all major visual creation there lies a dormant mystery. Why does the artist decide to change style as if overnight? For the occasion of its summer exhibition, the excellent Beyeler Foundation in Basel has chosen one of the...
Maya at Musée Picasso:In the Picasso family, the beloved eldest daughter
https://youtu.be/K82lsVnLhtc Blockbuster The Picasso signature is a guarantee of success, and exhibitions exploring the life of the Spanish painter, from his diet to his status as a foreigner via his collections of tribal art, have proliferated...
Art Basel is almost back to normal and contemporary art continues to be very, very expensive
Turbulent times In these turbulent times for the economy, geopolitics, public health, and society, you might be surprised to learn that contemporary art prices are at an all-time high. Within this context we see the opening of Art Basel from 16...
The Hubert de Givenchy mega-sale in Paris: a challenge for Christie’s
https://youtu.be/Ux4oq351fQg Audrey Hepburn Hubert de Givenchy became a legendary figure thanks to two women. The first, who is the embodiment of cinematic grace, is Audrey Hepburn, for whom he designed the legendary silhouettes worn in films...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: Simon Hantai is reinstated with his impressive polychrome series
https://youtu.be/IvpNpXftP38 Not retinal art The 20th century will be defined as the period when art was completely called into question. It was Marcel Duchamp who proclaimed, very early on and contrary to what people had hitherto...
Douglas Gordon and Alberto Giacometti: elective affinities with a ghost
https://youtu.be/m4zh9NOUhzc After Zidane How do you exist in relation to Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) when you make sculpture? The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (born in 1966), former Turner Prize laureate and co-author with Philippe...
Robert Storr: “the art world today is almost entirely commercial”. A meeting with the great American art critic capable of numerous premonitions
https://youtu.be/P3i5fvE8ti8 Media hype As the modern and contemporary art sales opened with the auctioning of a portrait of Marilyn from 1964 by Andy Warhol for 195 million dollars, we realize that the media hype surrounding works presented at...
Brussels: while waiting for Christopher Wool, the futurist art of Neil Beloufa and the spiritual paintings of Cassi Namoda
Christopher Wool On 2 June 2022 Brussels will see the opening at the new and third space restored by the Xavier Hufkens gallery, over 2500m2, of an exhibition of one of the legends of American art from the late 20th century, Christopher Wool...
Arthur Jafa: the largest exhibition on the American artist has opened in Arles at the Luma Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59UEnXYLGNc Love was the message For an artist, producing a recognized masterpiece means being immediately put on the global map of the art world. In 2016 Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) created an extraordinary film...
Xinyi Cheng: when attitudes become colours, at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
https://youtu.be/wHFpfwlMM7w Harald Szeemann “When attitudes become forms.” In 1969 the great exhibition curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) came up with this expression as a title for an exhibition on the actions of artists, their...
Villa Medici: the art of doodling and scribbling from Leonardo to Cy Twombly
Suspending their attention The subject may seem trivial, but it is both unprecedented and fascinating how when the artist suspends their attention for a moment and their hand continues to work alone, it produces something unique. Gribouillis The French speak...
Maryan: the forgotten Polish artist’s “truth-paintings” at Moca in Miami and Kamel Mennour in Paris
https://youtu.be/tqRrN8CRO_E Zeitgeist Success in art is quite often linked to an element that may be considered superficial, and which is described in all languages using a German word: the zeitgeist. For a very long time Pinchas Burstein,...