by Judith Benhamou | Feb 11, 2024 | Art History, Art Market, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Vulgar money For a long time money had a sulphurous smell as far as art historians were concerned; a vulgar reputation that prevented them from examining the artist’s preoccupations and market. People just liked to talk about the genius creators who sacrificed and...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 5, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photography, Photos, Video interviews
Between painting and cinema In the 1970s, when photography had yet to be seen as a “noble” art, he invented a new kind of artwork. The Canadian photographer Jeff Wall (born in 1946) had the idea of magnifying his large-scale images using huge, heavy...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 28, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Old masters, Paintings, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/5D4kTB8rfiA Supernatural powers of the artist We have a tendency to endow great artist with quasi-supernatural powers. The most illustrious theorists of psychoanalysis claim that certain painters and other sculptors have, in their works, anticipated...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 25, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
A little niche Over the past eleven years the Artgenève fair has slowly but surely grown into a key event in the contemporary art world for this international city, famous for its free port among other things. Helmed by its director Thomas Hug, it found a little niche...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 21, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Only women artists May 2009 marked a milestone in the history of contemporary art. That year, over the course of eight months, an exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou which was the largest ever staged to showcase the work of women artists from the 20th...
