by Judith Benhamou | Mar 23, 2021 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video art, Video interviews, Virtual reality
Technological progress and art history Contrary to all commonly held assumptions, art history is closely linked to the history of technological progress. It is said, for example, that Vermeer made use of the “camera obscura”, an optical technique that involved a...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 19, 2021 | Art History, Art Market, Modern Art, Video interviews
The scream “The Scream” by Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is a bit like the tree that conceals the forest. Or the story of how a painting conceived in four versions – which has become a cultural touchstone in global collective memory – has long overshadowed the rest...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/VhOaIxHu-Hc Non essential values? During a period of time that is both very market-centric and fairly disoriented, you might think that Renaissance literature, like art more generally, belongs to the category of “non-essential” values. However,...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 12, 2021 | Art Market, Video interviews
Art and Life “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” People tend to slightly overuse this quote by the great Fluxus artist Robert Filliou (1926-1987), but it perfectly articulates a desire for an existence driven by the pursuit of aesthetics in the broad...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 1, 2021 | Art History, Art Market, Old masters, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/N_50PZxHyoY There are successive stories of old masters on the art market and yet no two are quite alike. Absolute record The absolute record for an old masters work, 450 million dollars, was obtained by Christie’s in 2017 for the famous...
