Forms of sounds What forms can we give to sounds? It’s a strange question, but it was posed in the early 20th century by major artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In our current age there is another artist, the Swiss American who...
Louis XV is back at Versailles
https://youtu.be/zVnd6yDx_co The death of 3 generation It is a very French exploration in that it is the stuff of legends: the childhood of a king. It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like during the early years of the life of Louis XV...
Louvre: a grandiose exhibition on the objects of Chardin, Rembrandt, Goya, Van Gogh, Dali…
https://youtu.be/43obYNEbLSc Like good old days At the Louvre you’d think we were back in the good old days before Covid: mass tourism has resurfaced with its crowds and queues under the Pyramid, but we’ve also seen the return of an extremely...
Anri Sala: Two minutes before death against the soundtrack of a clarinet
https://youtu.be/Vn-WM_Uzuz8 The shuttle Challenger On 28 January 1986 the American space shuttle Challenger exploded, exactly 73 seconds after take-off. There were seven astronauts on board, including Ronald McNair, a seasoned musician who...
Dialogue between the Kramlich video collection and Caravaggisti paintings
https://youtu.be/HOlBNRU1ojM Western artistic virtuosity At the beginning of the 17th century, at a time when the Netherlands was one of the epicentres of western artistic virtuosity, a group of Dutch painters had the bright idea to embark upon...
Art Basel Miami Beach: A unique artistic ecosystem
20 years ago Art Basel emerged at Miami Beach 20 years ago and since then no other art fair has made such a powerful impact on a city. For a long time fun-loving Miami has been on the receiving end of bad press, and the fair, since the early...
Travel through space with Yves Klein
https://youtu.be/OZeB6jA9KY4 With Saint Rita of Cascia “Saint Rita of Cascia, patron of impossible and desperate cases, thank you for all the powerful, decisive, marvellous help that you have given me up to now (…) Even if I am personally...
At the New York auctions there were paintings for keen connoisseurs or speculators
Vandalism On 18 November 2022 two environmental activists from the French movement known as “Dernière Rénovation” (Last Renovation) poured orange acrylic paint over a massive stainless steel sculpture, an equestrian self-portrait by American...
Abu Dhabi: a creative fair in collaboration with the Louvre AD and the future Guggenheim
Supported by the state It’s the only fair of its kind: a commercial show that’s entirely supported by the state, as a cultural event in its own right. Abu Dhabi Art, which features 80 exhibitors from 33 countries, is an event that has existed...
Tate Modern: this is how art history is made. Cézanne’s influence from Gauguin to Lucian Freud
Visual gust of wind Seeing a substantial exhibition of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is like being caught up in a visual gust of wind. There’s the beauty of the reddish and green hues that caress you, but also the simplified or even crude forms, the...
Paris Photo: the principles of valuing photography, from Le Gray to Serrano
Letizia Battaglia The setting of prices Each field of artistic creation is governed, in market terms, by unique rules. So the principles that dictate the setting of prices in photography have nothing to do with the market for paintings, for...
Centre Pompidou: the beautiful people of Alice Neel
https://youtu.be/wYDfZVjsCBg Immortality Without wanting to resort to big words, having your portrait done is a good way of attempting to achieve immortality. In New York it was Andy Warhol who, in the 1960s, brought the discipline back in...