by Judith Benhamou | Feb 25, 2025 | Exhibition, Fashion, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/nQP6SzCMsGM?si=m-P4w3ULbJUfj1EB Worst enemies of humanity If you think that art is frivolous or that the concerns of the avant-garde are trivial, you should know that, before you, the worst enemies of humanity in the 20th century—the Nazis—took great...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 19, 2025 | Exhibition, Fashion, Video interviews
Objects of memory When it comes to ancient African art, the idea of an immaculate object is meaningless. They are works that bear the traces of experience, of ritual, of hands passing over wood, of ointment: They are transformed into objects of memory. They...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2025 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Challenging the easel Here, what constitutes the very substance of the canvas becomes the artwork by itself. Since the 1920s and the advent of the Bauhaus movement, it has been officially agreed upon that a work of art may be entirely made of fabric or even...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 30, 2025 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist Nan Goldin (born in 1953)...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 15, 2025 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/oh2poy5-aJw Healing Artists possess a precious ability: they can heal themselves through their work. Take Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972). She explains that when she decided to settle in Berlin—where she still lives today—she had to move...
