https://youtu.be/ohJSf3ag_9Q A new vocabulary There are certain artists – and they are rare – who are capable of inventing an entire vocabulary. This is true of the Icelandic-Danish artist who lives in Berlin, Olafur Eliasson (born in 1967),...
Paul Allen Collection: he was passionate, he bought masterpieces and the sale is entirely guaranteed so it cannot fail
https://youtu.be/YjkhT5Pues4 1 billion Rarely has a sale been kept secret for so long. On 9 and 10 November Christie’s will be selling 184 lots in New York taken from the collection belonging to the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, who died...
Tribute to Rodney Graham (1949-2022)
The Canadian artist Rodney Graham, born in 1949, has just died of cancer. I met him in 2016 at the Dijon Consortium where he had staged an extraordinary exhibition. He invented exceptional stories through his videos and installations...
Paris+ by Art Basel: artworks for millions of euros at the fair replacing the Fiac
High expectations It’s the question on everyone’s lips: with the arrival of the contemporary art fair Paris+ by Art Basel, which is now organized by the Swiss behemoth, what are the real changes? Expectations are high if we are to believe the...
Paris: the impressive show of Picasso’s sculptures at a commercial gallery
https://youtu.be/Z4pfMDkzLy8 24 times more paintings than sculptures 16,000: this is the number of painted works officially produced by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and inventoried in his catalogue raisonné. In 2000 the modern art historian Werner...
Frieze week: the London art scene is hyperactive despite the post-Brexit crisis
London is resilient If Great Britain has been hit by a social and economic crisis, the largest art fair in the country seems to be faring well. On 12 October Frieze opened in Regent’s Park, with its two components, Frieze Masters (128...
Monet / Mitchell at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an immersion in pleasure
https://youtu.be/42LTjqCHHVw Obsessions Art history shows us that, regardless of the era, sometimes artists can find one another through certain obsessions. This autumn the Louis Vuitton Foundation looks at a textbook case of how two...
This October Hamad Al Thani and Gordon Getty are selling their collections of classical decorative art. The anticipated awaking of a sleeping beauty of the art market
A Porsche and a Boulle desk “Thirty years ago, when you wanted to show you were successful, first you’d buy a Porsche, followed by a Boulle desk, but those days are long gone, and familiarity with these high-quality furnishings has been lost.”...
Fondazione Prada in Venice: Taryn Simon’s conversation piece is a journey through the human brain
https://youtu.be/JweHtN8cZqg Large amount of data The American artist Taryn Simon (born in 1975) has a singular visual oeuvre which always finds unique ways of addressing serious phenomena. She is adept at compiling large amounts of data to...
Kokoschka: A modern artist who foreshadowed the painting of today
https://youtu.be/_BT4Hum8Tm0 A life- size doll He was no stranger to heartbreak. The painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), also known as “Kokoschka the madman”, embarked upon a tortured relationship between 1912 and 1914 with one of the mythical...
Contemporary art market: a trajectory in overdrive
Michael Armitage On 21 September one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions on the global contemporary art scene opened at the White Cube gallery in London, showcasing the work of British-Kenyan artist Michael Armitage (born in 1984)....
Biennale de Lyon: an impressive journey through the ruins of contemporary society
Beirut https://youtu.be/wAV6ENMD32Y People never forget Beirut. Take Sam Bardaouil. Born in Lebanon, this world-class art historian is curating the sixteenth Lyon Biennale together with Till Fellrath, on show until 31 December. The duo, who...