by Judith Benhamou | Mar 14, 2016 | Book, Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photography
Mapplethorpe Book-Cover Mapplethorpe Interior of R Mapplethorpe house Mapplethorpe Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was a great artist, not just a great photographer. He will forever be etched in memory as someone who immortalised in black and white those perfectly...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 11, 2016 | Museum
Picasso Picasso Picasso studio Picasso Like some bizarre coincidence, you turn up at a museum, meet the exhibition’s co-curator, and as if by some power of mimicry, she could easily pass for one of the muses of the said artist. So it happened with Cécile Godefroy,...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 10, 2016 | Art Market, Fair, Gallery, Old masters
Picasso Mughal miniature Rembrandt Rembrandt Juan de Mesa 270 galleries, from antiques to contemporary art, land in the Dutch city for nine days It is by no means the most expensive work on show at the 2016 edition of Tefaf Maastricht but it’s one of the...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 6, 2016 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum
By Leonardo da Vinci By Dürer By El Greco By Yayoi Kusama While the art world is in thrall to the latest fashions of contemporary art and the market, and while museums are ever more influenced (perhaps too much) by their generous patrons who keep these public...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 3, 2016 | Art Fair, Art Market, Contemporary art, Gallery, Modern Art
By René Magritte By John Coplans By John Coplans By Claire Tabouret By Thomas Downing By Thomas Downing The Armory Show is an event that is eagerly awaited in New York. The longest-running fair in the world capital of contemporary art, bringing together 205...