by Judith Benhamou | Nov 30, 2021 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
More open to change The public health crisis has made people more open to change and has led to a growing awareness of the importance of physical experiences (meeting friends, listening to live music) together with an invasion of the virtual sphere in the world...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 4, 2021 | Art History, Old masters, Video interviews
The fascinating Duchess of Alba There exists not one but two Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). He has gone down in collective memory as a portraitist to the Spanish royal family, where he prolifically depicted the monarch and his clique, his soldiers...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 31, 2021 | Art History, Exhibition
Autorship Not a year goes by without some controversy over the authorship of such and such an old master, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Salvator Mundi (See here and here the last reports about the Salvator Mundi and here about two Botticelli proposed...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 14, 2021 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Catastrophic Brexit Seen from Paris, in terms of the art market, the end to Britain’s membership of the European Union seems catastrophic. When Brexit was announced, many multinational galleries like Zwirner and Levy-Gorvy almost instantly opened branches in Paris....
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 10, 2021 | Art History, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Moise de Camondo First it was a house. From 1911 Moïse de Camondo used his mansion located in the Plaine-Monceau district of Paris as a place to house his collection of French art. Then it became a museum. La belle époque In 1935 he donated the whole site,...
