by Judith Benhamou | Jun 27, 2021 | Contemporary art, Museum, Video interviews
A lineage of collectors The Swiss billionaire Maja Hoffmann comes from a lineage of remarkable collectors. Her grandmother, Maja Sacher, was one of the founders of the art museum in Basel (See here the video interview of Maja Hoffmann) Childhood in Arles Maja Hoffmann...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 21, 2021 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Great painter It’s generally taken as a given that Gerhard Richter is one of the great painters from the latter half of the 20th century. But for anyone who may still have doubts on the subject, it’s worth paying a visit to the Kunsthaus Zurich before 25 July....
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 16, 2021 | African Art, Art Market, Tribal Art
To travel gloriously “What is the good of moving when a man can travel so gloriously sitting in a chair?” The great decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans offers a good description of the state of immobility conducive to savouring one’s surroundings, in a world of...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 13, 2021 | Architect, Architecture, Video interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcPjIvN450 Ego Are they starchitects? On 16 March 2021 the famous Pritzker Prize was awarded to a French couple: Anne Lacaton (born in 1955) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (born in 1954). Partners in life and in business, these two...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 10, 2021 | Art History, Art Market
A legendary artist For those who are truly interested in impressionist art, Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) is a legendary artist. He only painted for a period of seven years, before dying aged 28 after enlisting in the French army in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war....
