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...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 7, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Big numbers The Indian Ambani family is famous for various reasons. Firstly due to the father, Mukesh, an astute businessman who is largely responsible for growing his own father’s textile business, to the point of turning it into a telecommunications empire, among...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 3, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/JUWPy3kMnGA Once upon a time in New York Once upon a time there were two New Yorkers of different ages, races, and careers, who would produce over a short time period – between 1984 and 1985 – extraordinary paintings made in tandem. On one side there...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 28, 2023 | Art History, Contemporary art, Modern Art, Video interviews
Centre of the art World For a long while it was Europe, then the United States, that were at the centre of the art world’s preoccupations in terms of modern artistic creation. But gradually, spurred on by new, less self-centred notions, and – it must be said...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 23, 2023 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Draconian isolation Times have been hard. For three years draconian isolation measures have been imposed in China and, to a lesser extent, in its commercial forward base, Hong Kong, while the effervescent city has also been the site of marked political opposition,...