by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2016 | Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition
Interviewing Tony Salame By Richard Prince (detail) By Richard Prince By Etel Adnan Arriving in Beirut always makes a big impression. You’re told the road to the airport is dangerous because it’s the path along which Hezbollah settled. My driver discretely crosses...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2016 | Art Fair, Art Market, Gallery
At ArtBasel Miami By Robert Mangold By Frank Stella by Frank Stella by Sigmar Polke By Sigmar Polke By Louise Bourgeois First and foremost, Miami is an atmosphere. The Floridian city is a strange combination of showboating, bling cars throbbing like Ferraris down...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2016 | Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
Danh Vo Peter Hujar’s portrait of a dog By Danh Vo By Danh Vo Bertrand Lavier work He came up onto the international art scene just a few years ago, but Danh Vo is already one of the stars of the globalized art scene, visible everywhere from New York’s Whitney...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2016 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum
Ryutaro Takahashi By Yayoi Kusama Ryutaro Takahashi What is it that drives collectors to accumulate works of art, to get into debt, to travel around the world to see the works of their protégés and, sometimes, to eventually present the fruits of their labors to the...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 7, 2016 | Art Market, Auction, Old masters
El Greco Fragonard, “Dans les blés” Belloto, “View of Dresden” The art market doesn’t do art justice. In other words, on one side of the ring are modes of art consumption centered on contemporary art, and on the other is art history, filtered...