by Judith Benhamou | Mar 1, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Interview
Before everyone else It’s not a good thing to be right before everyone else. The artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) whose work is haunted by themes of trauma and femininity only started to gain recognition in the 1970s. The Met, the Hayward, and Kunstmuseum Basel...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 21, 2022 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/a1VAviBtf5Y Finally the Venice Biennale Amid the great lethargy that’s descended on the world over the past two years, things have continued to advance, albeit at a slower pace and in a different way, including in art. This year finally sees the...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 16, 2022 | Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/OwcJ8lJnmVg Death’s triumph In what is known as classical art, painters and sculptors used to amuse themselves by creating vanitas works: dead game lying on a table, flowers or fruit from different seasons arranged within the same...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 14, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/RVCU9Qd68gg Romanticism Artists can have a kind of 21st-century romanticism, if we can call it that, which means that some of them aren’t satisfied with recognition. They’ll call into question all the signs that bring them value and credibility a...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 9, 2022 | Photography
Magnum There can be no doubt that the photographer Jonas Bendiksen (born in 1977) is nothing if not audacious. This Norwegian member of Magnum, the press agency founded during the postwar period by names as illustrious as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert...
