https://youtu.be/0Y81nKHGEMA?si=7njVbwZrhaV82n9T Light obsession For painters, light is an obsession. It is what gives life to a picture, sometimes to the point of provoking a mystical response.(Take for instance the light in Cézanne paintings,...
Panorama: Towards a New Model of Art Fair in Italy—Less Business-Oriented, More about Sharing
https://youtu.be/KnGmc6-kgdo Panorama Pozzuoli At a time when the art market is caught in a chasm of pessimism, a small four-day event in Italy breathed new life into the idea of the fair, animated by a fresh and invigorating spirit. Here...
How to Read the World Through Diagrams According to Rem Koolhaas. An other Radical Exhibition at Fondazione Prada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwNSOiLlTI Global celebrity The architect Rem Koolhaas (born in 1944) is a global celebrity in his field. Winner of the Pritzker Prize, he has signed such landmark projects as the CCTV tower in Beijing,...
When Giants Converse: The encounter of Lee Ufan and Michelangelo Pistoletto
https://youtu.be/9NV4pUxSQE4 In Lee Ufan Arles Through October 5, Lee Ufan Arles—the institution that the Korean artist opened in 2022 in the Camargue—presents “A Conversation Piece,” a dialogue between his own work and that of Michelangelo...
Frieze Seoul: in Seoul, the Soft Power Platform Faces the Art Market Crisis
Morning calm and soft power If there is one country that has mastered the art of soft power, it is South Korea. In just a few years, the “Land of Morning Calm” has become a global cultural reference point, especially for younger generations....
What Summer Has Wrought on the Art Market
Blum's gallery sunset https://youtu.be/6ZolG16fIOY?si=IyYLG7_pAmqacA5C On 1 July, a bombshell announcement shook the global art market. Blum, one of the most influential galleries in the United States—and more specifically Los...
Maiolino at the Picasso Museum: The Golden Lion and Her Beautiful Clay Metaphors
https://youtu.be/Ng2-g8ImgEk?si=8_HaXiEnGgBXqQ2L The fate of women There’s a great deal embedded in the work of Anna Maria Maiolino. But nothing reveals itself at first glance. The artist—who, though born in Italy in 1942, has spent most of her...
Come Summer, Arles Blooms Into Capital of the International Scene, Now Featuring Wael Shawky and Ho Tzu Nyen
Van Gogh, tourist magnet The scorching sun, the Rhône winding majestically through the city, lively café terraces, Roman ruins, Van Gogh—the ever-present tourist magnet—and everywhere, down one alley or another, contemporary art exhibitions....
Barbara Hepworth at the Fondation Maeght: Harmony of Curves and Hollows in the Pine Grove
https://youtu.be/x5XqBEE-pWY Never before attempted “Here, something never before attempted is being tried: to create the universe, create instinctively, and through love, the universe in which modern art might find both its rightful...
In a Little Paradise of Abstraction, on the Island of Porquerolles
https://youtu.be/ZnmHebgEktk?si=RdUeRVC8oeA5GzWS Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began...
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles : Happy Days
Letizia Battaglia Often, when artists first begin documenting their lives through photography, they naturally start by capturing their happy days. But what comes next—in both their work and their lives—usually ends up telling another story....
Cézanne in Aix: If You Miss This Exhibit, You’ll Have Failed Your Summer
https://youtu.be/QhDVh8aFuMs Aix en Provence It’s a safe bet that had Cézanne not been from Aix-en-Provence, the history of modern art would have gone down a very different path. In the final years of his life, the painter—whom Picasso would...