by Judith Benhamou | Feb 23, 2023 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
Global fairs The global art fair calendar is looking very full. Just after the Californian version of Frieze, which took place in Los Angeles in Santa Monica’s former airport, and just before Art Dubai (from 1 to 5 March 2023), the Arco fair is being held in Madrid,...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 17, 2023 | Art History, Exhibition, Old masters
 No taboos Super-erotic and without taboos. Nicolas Poussin(1594-1665), an artist’s artist favoured by art historians, considered to be the most austere of his era, had a period that was decidedly risqué. The painter who was the subject of a 2015 exhibition at the...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 15, 2023 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/5QDiYUJoRuY Enoura Observatory Odawarra, in the province of Kanagawa, is a coastal town 73 kilometres from Tokyo. It is here that the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (born in 1948), who lives in New York, decided to open a foundation in 2017. Overlooking the...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 9, 2023 | Art History, Old masters, Video interviews
 All about intimacy Talking about the great Dutch painter Vermeer (1632-1675) in terms of numerical data seems like a misinterpretation. This art legend, all delicacy and detail, known for his descriptions of 17th-century interiors from the city of Delft,...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 2, 2023 | Art Market, Auction
https://youtu.be/Lus0J0c_Gc8 A fairly placid market Compared to the excessive prices in the field of modern and contemporary art, the market for old masters seems to be fairly placid judging by the results of the January sales in New York. It’s a far cry from the...
