by Judith Benhamou | Jan 9, 2023 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Turbulent events Brazil continues to face turbulent events. In 2021, while the vast country was still in shock from the chaos of the pandemic but also amid major upheavals from the reign of Bolsonaro, who openly declared his antipathy towards the cultural world, the...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 19, 2022 | Art History, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/zVnd6yDx_co The death of 3 generation It is a very French exploration in that it is the stuff of legends: the childhood of a king. It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like during the early years of the life of Louis XV (1710-1774), the great...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 8, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/Vn-WM_Uzuz8 Â The shuttle Challenger On 28 January 1986 the American space shuttle Challenger exploded, exactly 73 seconds after take-off. There were seven astronauts on board, including Ronald McNair, a seasoned musician who had taken his saxophone...
by Judith Benhamou | Dec 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/HOlBNRU1ojM Western artistic virtuosity At the beginning of the 17th century, at a time when the Netherlands was one of the epicentres of western artistic virtuosity, a group of Dutch painters had the bright idea to embark upon an initiatory journey...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 30, 2022 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
20 years ago Art Basel emerged at Miami Beach 20 years ago and since then no other art fair has made such a powerful impact on a city. For a long time fun-loving Miami has been on the receiving end of bad press, and the fair, since the early days, has suffered from...