https://youtu.be/asQ4IeoicJI Revisiting the past Each era has its own way of revisiting the past. In the 19th century, from the 1830s onwards, France developed a certain passion for the gothic style and all its expressions, while Victor Hugo...
Tefaf Maastricht: the fair of extraordinary objects
You are rich Imagine that you are rich, very rich, and that you love art. Another possibility: imagine you are a curious die-hard fan of things created by man, without boundaries of time or space. If you recognize yourself in one of these two...
Maya at Musée Picasso:In the Picasso family, the beloved eldest daughter
https://youtu.be/K82lsVnLhtc Blockbuster The Picasso signature is a guarantee of success, and exhibitions exploring the life of the Spanish painter, from his diet to his status as a foreigner via his collections of tribal art, have proliferated...
Art Basel is almost back to normal and contemporary art continues to be very, very expensive
Turbulent times In these turbulent times for the economy, geopolitics, public health, and society, you might be surprised to learn that contemporary art prices are at an all-time high. Within this context we see the opening of Art Basel from 16...
Guggenheim Bilbao: what is the relationship between contemporary American sculptor Richard Serra and neo-impressionist French painter Georges Seurat?
https://youtu.be/5Im2OwRQnvA The meaning of the work “The meaning is what you bring to the work.” When I interviewed Richard Serra (born in 1938) in 2008 about his monumental installation at the Grand Palais in Paris called “Promenade”,...
Revolution in the museums: NFTs are now being exhibited in major institutions
https://youtu.be/yKeXf_Prlec Once reticent So far the institutions have been reticent. But now there are three serious museums exhibiting the work of two very prominent digital artists working with NFTs. Reminder Let’s remind ourselves that...
The Hubert de Givenchy mega-sale in Paris: a challenge for Christie’s
https://youtu.be/Ux4oq351fQg Audrey Hepburn Hubert de Givenchy became a legendary figure thanks to two women. The first, who is the embodiment of cinematic grace, is Audrey Hepburn, for whom he designed the legendary silhouettes worn in films...
Sanyu: the cursed artist in Paris who became the star of the Chinese modern art market
Unfair artworld The art world can be very unfair. Imagine a painter with a unique, fascinating style who makes compositions (nudes, animals, flowers, landscapes…) in pared-back and fluid forms, animated by strong contrasting colours, that are...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: Simon Hantai is reinstated with his impressive polychrome series
https://youtu.be/IvpNpXftP38 Not retinal art The 20th century will be defined as the period when art was completely called into question. It was Marcel Duchamp who proclaimed, very early on and contrary to what people had hitherto...
New York: six artworks that explain the good results at auction despite the global economic and geopolitical situation
Positive signs The official shop window of the global art market consists of a series of sales at auction organized twice a year in New York by Christie’s, Sotheby’s and to a lesser extent Phillips. At the time of writing this article the...
Douglas Gordon and Alberto Giacometti: elective affinities with a ghost
https://youtu.be/m4zh9NOUhzc After Zidane How do you exist in relation to Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) when you make sculpture? The Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (born in 1966), former Turner Prize laureate and co-author with Philippe...
Robert Storr: “the art world today is almost entirely commercial”. A meeting with the great American art critic capable of numerous premonitions
https://youtu.be/P3i5fvE8ti8 Media hype As the modern and contemporary art sales opened with the auctioning of a portrait of Marilyn from 1964 by Andy Warhol for 195 million dollars, we realize that the media hype surrounding works presented at...