Soft power Power struggles in Asia have never been as significant as they are today in matters of soft power. More specifically, in the current art market the question is to know what city will be next in line to shine the brightest. Two...
Leonor Fini: the great rediscovery of the exuberant surrealist artist
https://youtu.be/QLPXvwrO9G0?si=g1RFq-Xr1MC8WKDV Free and creative She was free, unique, exuberant, original, creative and prolific. The Italian painter Leonor Fini (1907-1996) who moved to Paris in 1930 and would spend the rest of her life...
Theaster Gates creates social sculptures and sentimental readymades. From Chicago to Arles
https://youtu.be/kEz-PYdAB0c Imbibing what is happening Like everyone, I arrive at an exhibition and I wonder what there is to see. In certain cases, an opinion forms immediately. Photos, sculptures, paintings, installations and films allow...
Kapwani Kiwanga has created a blue labyrinth in one of the most beautiful museums in France
France's colonial past France’s colonial past is a subject that haunts artists across national borders. In Venice in 2021, for example, one of the most visited pavilions, belonging to the United States, was occupied by Simone Leigh who created...
Carrie Mae Weems at the Luma foundation: “Democracy is under threat”
https://youtu.be/nVonVjYHG9w New York, London and Arles In every impactful artistic work, it is the form and content that makes it. In Arles, Luma is hosting a large-scale, spectacular exhibition of the work of American artist Carrie Mae...
David Hammons: the documentary. “The more he says ‘fuck off’ to the art world the more they want him”
https://youtu.be/7qy3KJRXkS0 Strange and glorious The American artist David Hammons (born in 1943) is a strange and glorious figure, frequently absent, yet always seeming to appear where he’s least expected. He isn’t affiliated with any one...
Rencontres d’Arles: There is no hierarchy in photographic genres. There are only good, bad or boring photos
An augmented Provence Arles is first and foremost an unusual place, a kind of “augmented” Provence. It is here, for example, that we find exceptional Roman ruins such as the recently renovated site that tourists always forget to visit: the...
Tacita Dean at the Pinault collection: a new milestone in the history of art and film
https://youtu.be/lcQghJQVwRw The extraordinary new production of Video art Video art, like painting or sculpture, is an extraordinary mode of expression and one that is widely explored in the contemporary period. Two great artists have created...
Cy Twombly: some secrets revealed about the gestation of his works
https://youtu.be/_p31N7P2xJk Burden of classical painting Over the course of the 20th century artists have sought to cast off the burden of classical painting. Forget the figurative, forget western painting, forget “flat” painting that only...
Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Titian… A great Renaissance show at the Louvre
https://youtu.be/LF_wYDcCHnw La Grande Galerie How long has it been since you walked through the permanent collections, the holy of holies at the Louvre, the Grande Galerie? Across 460 metres stretches a display of one of the grandest episodes...
Elmgreen & Dragset: the remarkable big show of anxiety and mischief
https://youtu.be/uuXfYPW7Fp0 Four eyes Four eyes open wide onto our current age. For close to 30 years Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen born in 1961, Ingar Dragset born in 1969), two Scandinavian artists who live in Berlin, have been...
Art Basel: changes in the market at the world’s foremost art fair
Slow down The art market always has a few surprises up its sleeve. While at the New York auctions in May prices showed a certain degree of slow-down - naturally enough, given the global context - at the opening of the Art Basel fair on 12 June...