by Judith Benhamou | May 5, 2022 | Art Market, Artists, Auction house, Contemporary Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgoz9L5WZqQ To shoot It’s all a question of language. In English people employ the same verb to mean “taking a photo” and “firing a gun”: to shoot. The scene took place in the autumn of 1964 in New York inside Andy Warhol’s...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 29, 2022 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Christopher Wool On 2 June 2022 Brussels will see the opening at the new and third space restored by the Xavier Hufkens gallery, over 2500m2, of an exhibition of one of the legends of American art from the late 20th century, Christopher Wool (born in 1965). For the...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 27, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59UEnXYLGNc Love was the message For an artist, producing a recognized masterpiece means being immediately put on the global map of the art world. In 2016 Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) created an extraordinary film which is 7:25 minutes...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
In keeping with the times The Venice Biennale 2022 has never before been so in keeping with the times. Firstly because the vast majority of it is dedicated to women, the half of the global population demanding their rights with increasing force. Next because the...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 17, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition
Incomprehensible words The relative danger of contemporary abstraction made by famous artists is that it engenders among art critics an outpouring of words that are most certainly lyrical, but also incomprehensible, as though the vocabulary should match the...
