"The art market of today sends very mixed messages.On the one hand, we continue to sell the most expensive, rarest and most important artworks.On the other hand, the paintings that are not so very rare, the works that trade at around 100 00 euros despite being made by...
Anish Kapoor (born in 1954) is not just an artist, he’s also a great illusionist. He is helping to set in motion the blurring of mankind’s perception and in doing so touches on a mystical part of us that makes us pleasantly uncomfortable. He makes our heads spin....
Two of the greatest artworks of the twentieth century were almost conceived in a brothel. The masterpiece “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon”, Picasso’s cubist manifesto now on display at Moma, doesn’t depict pretty girls from the south of France but rather creatures...
On Friday 8 June, Christie’s is auctioning a group of 62 artworks estimated at 800,000 euros owned by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. They all share the distinguishing feature of having once belonged to a Milanese dealer, Arturo Schwarz (born in 1924). Schwarz has now...
“I don’t want to dishearten you, but there will inevitably be a serious and lengthy crash caused by the large number of exhibitions and the weariness the public will feel towards contemporary painting. The crash may take place tomorrow or in ten years’ time, I don’t...
The south of France, with its quality of light and its natural beauty, has long fostered the spirit of sharing in private collectors keen to reveal their treasures to the public. We could mention the Maeght Foundation, which opened in 1964 in Saint-Paul de Vence and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBHxf2FvTyQ On the big international art show circuit, Kader Attia (born in 1970) is everywhere. He was exhibited at the penultimate Documenta in Kassel in 2012. One of his large-scale works was exhibited as part of the...
Over the past 3 months and up until 9 May the glorious central spiral of the Guggenheim in New York was occupied by the artist Danh Vo (born in 1975 in Vietnam raised in Denmark). He will be succeeded by Alberto Giacometti in June. Which just goes to show… But in my...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz4Bht6Ft3M The Centre Pompidou continues to multiply. Following the opening of a new branch in the East of France in Metz, an outpost in Malaga, and in anticipation of next year’s opening in Shanghai of a new Asian...
Millions of dollars are again going to be raining down. At the end of a week of sales dedicated to the impressive Rockefeller collection (cf. the Report) in which the first night of auctions alone brought in 646 million dollars and record prices for Monet, Matisse,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPR0ZxmoiZY It certainly isn’t politically correct to say so but artists that are categorized as “African American” are in fashion right now. Their work isn’t all of the same quality, but in the United States in particular...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiYqoZrZJ8E An exhibition doesn’t need to be large for it to be sublime. Right now, the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris is staging an exhibition of this kind. It is in this institution, the setting for what could be called...