https://youtu.be/U5-513yUZMM?si=TTwzLBKr5dzpOUYf Palazzo Strozzi The colossal Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has become, thanks to its director Arturo Galansino, in just a few years the benchmark site for two kinds of exhibitions. On the one hand...
Is the art market resilient or not? The Fisher Landau collection goes to auction as the world worries
Andy Warhol diaries “I did her portrait but it never really looked good, and the reason I wanted to do it again was because she has all these great paintings like Rauschenbergs and Picassos and I didn’t want to have mine looking bad there.” On...
Art advisors: whispering “secrets” into the ears of collectors
A colossal amount of money There has never been such a large number of contemporary art fairs in the world. Auction sales of current artistic creation bring in a colossal amount of money. Artists who are in fashion – thanks to social media –...
Van Gogh was not a cursed artist. An intense exhibition at Orsay
https://youtu.be/Spvn1Ne8TKM?si=1DowF-U7LebnxhR8 An extraordinary exhibition at Orsay The Musée d’Orsay is presenting an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the last days of Vincent Van Gogh when he was living near Doctor Gachet in Auvers sur...
Paris+: The augmented reality of Paris’s contemporary art scene
Emily in Paris+ There’s a Paris+ by Art Basel effect just like there’s an Emily in Paris effect. In the entertainment world, the sentimental and irreverent TV show has brought about a renewal of mass tourism to the French capital and we might...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: 110 artworks by Rothko for a major Parisian show
https://youtu.be/VOJw81WMAXA?si=mzr71W89HX-9gLBf Just paint No razzle dazzle or rigmarole, no frills or filters. Just paint. Nothing but paint. Colours and nothing but colours that interplay with a wild power. It was the artist who decided that...
Frieze Art Fair: the art ecosystem in London is still making sparks fly
At auction in Hongkong Despite what Sotheby’s is shouting from the rooftops, the Hong Kong sale from 5 October 2023 of a small part of the collection from the Long Museum in Shanghai – China’s most famous private museum – which acted as a test...
Lito: 21st-century lithographs are cloning the surface of paintings
A copy in relief At the recent inauguration of the breathtaking exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay dedicated to the last months of Vincent Van Gogh while he was living in Auvers sur Oise, a small space was reserved for not just one of the famous...
The orgiastic resurrection of Sardanapale at the Louvre
https://youtu.be/FDUOWldmgQU?si=Lwc7SW9QhY7oQPUA Feeling of ecstasy Among the lush and extraordinary offerings from exhibitions this October in Paris, there is one place that could easily be overlooked yet which, through the sight of a single...
Josefowitz: the man who created a market for some major figures of Post Impressionism
https://youtu.be/0yobqHVEOKE?si=yH5hdC0msvJRzg7j The Jeff Bezos of his time “He was a bit like the Jeff Bezos of his time. Samuel Josefowitz created a mail order company that sold records and then books. He went on to sell his business in order...
The largest private museum in Shanghai is selling off works by Modigliani, Zao Wou Ki, Harold Ancart… “It represents a tiny part of our collections”
https://youtu.be/iqzhNu_sHNA?si=UAoYTe1bUHZxBks3 Soft power In China, the story of private museums is only just beginning. Art collections on display to the public, spearheading a new kind of soft power, are encouraged by the government. These...
Pablo/Gertrude, Picasso/Stein: the invention of cubism in shapes and words
https://youtu.be/6nAnfg8Vqmg?si=R9gfzCgicK5dfzRo Friendship and art history In 1905, a story of friendship lay at the origin of one of the key episodes in modern art. The eccentric and visionary collector Gertrude Stein lived in Paris, at 27...