https://youtu.be/0hmym3W53No?si=5BLGmQ9yZBx3IK1l 236.4 million Rationality is the enemy of artists. They obey more poetic rules, which lend an exceptional magic to the works they produce. As a result, these paintings or sculptures can sometimes...
Studio Museum: The Harlem-Born Institution with a Flair for Discovering Artists Reopens in Grand Style
https://youtu.be/8NZC9iFStv8?si=ralfyE9dMdU5W4AL African American culture Barely a few hours after a Socialist mayor of Indian origin was elected to lead New York City, another politically crucial event was taking place in the same megalopolis,...
The Three Names That Matter in New York This November: Leonard Lauder, Gustav Klimt, and Marcel Breuer -COPY
https://youtu.be/Iyfu93YEhpE?si=gdTfSG7F5LGuNs_6 Generous trustees In the United States, unlike in France, museums are rarely funded by the public sector. To attract ever greater private generosity, they have developed an elaborate system of...
Rirkrit Tiravanija, an artist in the lineage of Buddha and Marcel Duchamp
https://youtu.be/JSfTrpvg_uU?si=04RiZ5xANr2NpEzS To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Judith Benhamou Reports, I asked five leading figures in the art world to come and speak to us in public: Glenn Lowry, Maja Hoffmann, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lina...
The Three Names That Matter in New York This November: Leonard Lauder, Gustav Klimt, and Marcel Breuer
https://youtu.be/Iyfu93YEhpE?si=gdTfSG7F5LGuNs_6 Generous trustees In the United States, unlike in France, museums are rarely funded by the public sector. To attract ever greater private generosity, they have developed an elaborate system of...
George Condo: All the Faces of Dread in a Beautiful Paris Exhibition
https://youtu.be/dYxajiWeE1E?si=Vlo8CQrkLFyll6Es The artmarket The art market can sometimes have a decisive influence on the way we perceive artists. That could well have happened with the American painter George Condo (born 1957), a star of...
Maja Hoffmann, founder of LUMA Arles: “A feeling of accomplishment? No!”
https://youtu.be/bKHToaaECbs?si=i93jaTWjeoMbxI6z 10th anniversary To celebrate the of Judith Benhamou Reports, I asked five leading figures in the art world to speak to us in public: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maja Hoffmann, Glenn Lowry, Rirkrit...
Glenn Lowry, President of MoMA for 30 years: “I never felt completely American”
https://youtu.be/hHgVqbSemng?si=KnuNcWtDrnn9-6n2 10th anniversary To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Judith Benhamou Reports, not only did I have our website logo redesigned and brought back to life by the highly talented graphic designer Yorgo Tloupas, founder of...
The Fondation Cartier returns to the heart of things — to the Palais Royal — with an architectural tour de force by Jean Nouvel
https://youtu.be/YlIWVJ8Ul7c Multidirectional vision Something remarkable happens when you arrive at this museum. Our gaze embraces everything — or almost everything — across three levels. The visitor is astonished by this multidirectional and...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: The Genius of Gerhard Richter on a Grand Scale
https://youtu.be/zxItYejrUOI Magic There is a certain magic that exceptional artists possess — the ability to renew their vocabulary endlessly while remaining unmistakably themselves. It is not so much that they crave novelty; rather,...
Bourse de Commerce in Paris: Minimal, But Not Quite
https://youtu.be/oiqjrU6ZFY8 François Pinault Season after season in Paris — and in Venice at the Punta della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi — the Pinault Collection’s program continues to reveal different facets of the vast ensemble amassed by...
Irving Penn: A Historic Sale
https://youtu.be/k71kMCpGtt0?si=RZafvMibrTPPueHn Stylist of the female image Among the pantheon of modern fashion photographers stand two American talents turned legends: Richard Avedon (1923–2009) and Irving Penn (1917–2009). Among their many...