by Judith Benhamou | Nov 6, 2024 | Art History, Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Photography, Video interviews
What is a collection? “The collection is a work of art that is offered up for viewing. At first, we advance as though in a forest, not knowing where we are, with no points of reference. But we meet people along the way with whom we enter into dialogue, and this is how...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 29, 2024 | Art History, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/G3Dq9D7vIK0 Restless spirit When Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the son of a grain merchant, presented himself at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1892, the man who would go on to become one of the greatest painters of the 20th century was brutally...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 29, 2024 | Art History, Art Market, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
Profession of silent things The genius of artists lies in their ability to give form to the unspeakable. In this regard, the famous 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin found the right expression when he said, “I, who make a profession of silent...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 27, 2024 | Art History, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/nrAm83D8B-E Hot topics Museums and art historians, despite their classical appearance, nowadays tend to focus on “hot topics”, in other words, art that expresses current concerns in an effort to address past injustices . Often discussed, for example,...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 21, 2024 | Art Basel, Art Market, Contemporary art, Museum, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/rZJlJ75b7tc Backwards and forwards This is how the avant-garde works: in order to move forwards, it looks backwards. To allow their creation to grow and bear fruit, artists use the work of their elders as a catalyst. It was in this way, from his very...
