https://youtu.be/eLoob9CzooM Recognition in Art can be belated. It was only in 2012, at Documenta in Kassel, that Etel Adnan(born in 1925) was honoured. Since then this woman warrior whose weapons were poetry and painting, this woman of magnificent sensibility...
https://youtu.be/WxPCbbmzXOM The Art Basel of photography “Paris Photo is to photography what Art Basel is to contemporary art. You can find the whole world there.” The largest fair in the world dedicated to photography is taking place...
https://youtu.be/q7rBYGoFz98 The legacy of the artist It is utterly fascinating to learn why an artist starts to paint such or such a thing that goes on to secure their artistic legacy. This is the subject on display until 10 January at the...
https://youtu.be/hpLbQbGgiR8 The fascinating Duchess of Alba There exists not one but two Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). He has gone down in collective memory as a portraitist to the Spanish royal family, where he...
https://youtu.be/hpLbQbGgiR8 The fascinating Duchess of Alba There exists not one but two Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). He has gone down in collective memory as a portraitist to the Spanish royal family, where he...
Autorship Not a year goes by without some controversy over the authorship of such and such an old master, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Salvator Mundi (See here and here the last reports about the Salvator Mundi and here about...
https://youtu.be/5lhu6XXCBNk Art market/Art history For the past few years now the art market has been making its grand entrance into art history. In museums there have been exhibitions dedicated to great art dealers such as Ambroise Vollard or...
https://youtu.be/YFhT55y8xLs Love is the message... Let’s use the big words: Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) is probably one of the most relevant artists of our time thanks to his creation of three films headed by “Love is the message. The message...
Several art markets Seen in light of recent events, it could be said that there’s not one but rather several art markets. The star work in Paris: Calder So what’s the common thread between the sale for 21.4 million euros at Sotheby’s in London...
Catastrophic Brexit Seen from Paris, in terms of the art market, the end to Britain’s membership of the European Union seems catastrophic. When Brexit was announced, many multinational galleries like Zwirner and Levy-Gorvy almost instantly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvCcyJkZbsg Moise de Camondo First it was a house. From 1911 Moïse de Camondo used his mansion located in the Plaine-Monceau district of Paris as a place to house his collection of French art. Then it...
https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Same since the 1950s Imagine an artist who – since the 1950s – has always painted in the same style, with more or less the same subjects, using very similar colours. This is the American artist Alex Katz (born in...