by Judith Benhamou | Jul 22, 2025 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
Van Gogh, tourist magnet The scorching sun, the Rhône winding majestically through the city, lively café terraces, Roman ruins, Van Gogh—the ever-present tourist magnet—and everywhere, down one alley or another, contemporary art exhibitions. Arles is a beautiful small...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 20, 2025 | Abstraction, Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum
Never before attempted “Here, something never before attempted is being tried: to create the universe, create instinctively, and through love, the universe in which modern art might find both its rightful place and that otherworld once known as the...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 14, 2025 | Abstraction, Contemporary art, Exhibition
Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began moving away from purely figurative forms in order to bring painting closer...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 10, 2025 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art
Letizia Battaglia Often, when artists first begin documenting their lives through photography, they naturally start by capturing their happy days. But what comes next—in both their work and their lives—usually ends up telling another story. Case in point: Letizia...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 6, 2025 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art
https://youtu.be/QhDVh8aFuMs Aix en Provence It’s a safe bet that had Cézanne not been from Aix-en-Provence, the history of modern art would have gone down a very different path. In the final years of his life, the painter—whom Picasso would later call “the forefather...
