by Judith Benhamou | Jul 12, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/3XqOHlB25_8 In the corner of your mind Imagine that you were to give form, all in one place, to the fragments of ideas that you cherish, the ones that inhabit a certain part of your brain. Not the ideas that feed into conversations in daily life, but...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 6, 2022 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Dormant mystery In all major visual creation there lies a dormant mystery. Why does the artist decide to change style as if overnight? For the occasion of its summer exhibition, the excellent Beyeler Foundation in Basel has chosen one of the great textbook cases of...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 1, 2022 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition
Errors of judgment Writing about contemporary art also involves making errors of judgment on art that is currently being made. The creative output of the major protagonists is still in gestation and the viewer’s framework for understanding it is constantly adapting to...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Exceptional men In the words of Vasari, the first biographer of the Renaissance talents: “All great artist evade historians’ classification. They are first and foremost exceptional men (…) Among these unclassifiables, Donatello is one of the greatest.” And yet...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/asQ4IeoicJI Revisiting the past Each era has its own way of revisiting the past. In the 19th century, from the 1830s onwards, France developed a certain passion for the gothic style and all its expressions, while Victor Hugo was writing his...
