by Judith Benhamou | Apr 26, 2023 | Art History, Modern Art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/FDkRczRWVl0 More questions than answers The Musée d’Orsay has a particular fondness for Edgar Degas (1834-1917). We can understand why. He is one of the geniuses of modernity. However the last exhibition on him, “Degas à l’Opéra”, only dates...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 23, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/1eDs__BVvQg Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin, the unparalleled theoretician of photography, found the perfect words to describe, since the 1930s, our fascination with images from the past. He wrote: “For the last time the aura emanates from the early...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 20, 2023 | Biennale, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Global South If anyone mentions Sharjah, the contemporary art fans say: that’s where the Biennial is. People generally don’t know much about this emirate, which is part of the UAE, apart from the fact that it is wedged between the riches of Abu Dhabi with its...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 13, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtube.com/shorts/Wol5yiNvQSo?feature=share Crash in cryptocurrencies The world is changing at a rapid pace, and its artistic values are changing with it. The first chapter of this story starts in November 2022 when we witnessed a crash in...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 11, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/7hcG_sptgfI Like a little dead The German artist Thomas Demand (born in 1964) is a strange kind of photographer. He creates images that are all based on the same principle. In actuality, he has always created illusions of images according to a tried...
