by Judith Benhamou | Oct 25, 2022 | Art History, Art Market, Auction
https://youtu.be/YjkhT5Pues4 1 billion Rarely has a sale been kept secret for so long. On 9 and 10 November Christie’s will be selling 184 lots in New York taken from the collection belonging to the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, who died in 2018 at the age of...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 13, 2022 | Contemporary art, Fair, Video interviews
London is resilient If Great Britain has been hit by a social and economic crisis, the largest art fair in the country seems to be faring well. On 12 October Frieze opened in Regent’s Park, with its two components, Frieze Masters (128 exhibitors) displaying works from...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 7, 2022 | Art Market, Furniture, Video interviews
A Porsche and a Boulle desk “Thirty years ago, when you wanted to show you were successful, first you’d buy a Porsche, followed by a Boulle desk, but those days are long gone, and familiarity with these high-quality furnishings has been lost.” The interior designer...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 27, 2022 | Contemporary art, Donations, Exhibition
Athens With its attractive climate, low rents, large wild spaces but also, it must be said, its very alluring tax system, Athens could become a major platform for contemporary art in Europe. It is like a new Berlin complete with sunshine, where ambitious young...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 24, 2022 | Cinema, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/hyQUAN_lEwI Proust on his deathbed In his studio opposite his desk he has displayed the reproduction of a portrait of Marcel Proust on his deathbed. The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (born in 1976) talks about how when he was a teenager in Beirut...
