by Judith Benhamou | Apr 15, 2021 | Art History, Art Market, Video interviews
The ultimate art-market star Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the 20th century’s star painter, but he is also the ultimate art-market star of the early 21st century. Looking at the numbers, according to the Artprice database 100 euros invested on average in a Picasso work...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 12, 2021 | Art History, Exhibition, Video interviews
Mass sanitization These are times of mass sanitization. Long before we wore masks and handwashing justifiably became a global obsession, in another field the presence of sex in art was banished from the major themes of exhibitions in the Anglo-Saxon world. Beyond the...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 7, 2021 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
The exception of Luxembourg Luxembourg is known for its unique system of banking. What is less well known is that the duchy is also unique in terms of its museums compared to France, since this type of cultural institution is currently open there. Ahead his...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 1, 2021 | Art Fair, Art Market, Contemporary art
A physical fair It’s almost miraculous. In Dubai, the most commercial city in the United Arab Emirates, where restaurants are open and tourism is flourishing even when it’s coming from Israel (1), the first physical contemporary art fair to be held since the...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 28, 2021 | Collection, Contemporary art, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/ZfsdRadJwx8 Abraham Accords Now that Dubai has become an exceptional place in the global context of a planet where travel is prohibited and in a diplomatic context which promotes exchanges – the “Abraham Accords”, the peace treaty signed on 15...