by Judith Benhamou | Nov 27, 2024 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/b2cUd2wLFew?si=ygOjIGO90BtAHE7a Global scale The American artist Rashid Johnson (born in 1977) is one of the global stars of current art. This handsome man with his colossal stature and sparkling smile exhibits a rare characteristic. Although his work...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 24, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Cattelan from the 2010s There are vogues in Contemporary art, and one might have thought that the New York-based Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (born in 1960) was purely a product of the 2010s. After all, it was in 2016 that this ace of marketing, self-promotion and...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 18, 2024 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/GdhpcQyKQSQ?si=yGQ_hc1rmrktMve8 Lightbulb moments In the lives of artists there are major creative lightbulb moments, the fruit of their diligent research which, from one day to the next, opens up new horizons. In the contemporary period, the...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 14, 2024 | Art History, Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtube.com/shorts/sxNNq8lCSXk?si=0RW92w_x3qnCm0Jy Marcel Duchamp In 1964 Marcel Duchamp decided to reissue, in partnership with the Milanese dealer Arturo Schwartz, four “readymades” created in the 1910s. He was the one who invented the readymade concept. It...
by Judith Benhamou | Nov 7, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/E8nWpzFloYY?si=tIyaq1PSIWQhwz04 Humanity’s greatest catastrophes In 1959, Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras released Hiroshima mon amour, a film punctuated like a refrain by the words of the Japanese hero who tells his French lover, “You saw nothing...
