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...
Frieze: Brexit + Covid. How is London coping?
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...
Edmund de Waal: follow the artist’s guided tour through the Musée Nissim de Camondo, to celebrate the memory of a vanished fascinating family
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...
Alex Katz: the video interview with the 94-year-old painter who hates being bored
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...
La Maison de verre: the myth of one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture at auction
https://youtu.be/AT9mQcrSZRE A landmark of 20th-century architecture The Maison de Verre is nothing less than one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture. Located in Saint Germain des Près in the courtyard of an 18th-century...
The Albers, an ultra-modern couple united by abstraction. An exhibition in Paris and a testimony from Sheila Hicks
To think as a couple There are artists – and they are in the majority – who think as an individual, and there are others who think as a couple. This is the case, for example, of Christo and Jeanne Claude who created and authored their huge...
Art Basel: The spectacular resilience of the biggest contemporary art fair in the world
Resilience Resilience. Since the onset of the public health crisis sweeping the entire planet, this is a word that has been used extensively – and not always correctly. But if there’s a field that truly merits this label, it’s the art market....
Morozov Collection: the mega-exhibition of modern art from Russia at the Fondation Vuitton, episode 2
Modern Treasures For a long time Russia jealously guarded its modern art treasures, its breathtaking Matisses, the climactic sensations of its Monets, its radically cubist Picassos, the lost paradise of its Gauguins, without determining...
When surrealism influenced Rothko, Pollock, Pop: the Marseille exhibition that should be staged in New York
Made in USA Art is eminently political. Towards the end of the Second World War, when Europe had been bled dry and the way was paved for new forms of expression that were “made in the USA”, like the abstract expressionism of artists like...
L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped: Christo is brought back to life for fifteen days
https://youtu.be/mIKp-LgjBts Unconditional acclaim There are certain artworks which, however disconcerting their appearance, are still met with unconditional acclaim. https://youtu.be/W38rDXQSFNM Cézanne, El Greco, Picasso People never...
Centre Pompidou, Paris: the immense pleasure in the work of Georgia O’Keeffe
https://youtu.be/KwssqQpCJEU The "weaker" sex One good thing about trends is that they can lead us to rediscover certain major artists who have spent too long under the radar. This is true of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) who, within the...
Mariane Ibrahim, the Chicago gallery representing Amoako Boafo, opens a new space in Paris
https://youtu.be/2YQG-SnFnwU J'ai deux amours “J’ai deux amours” … On 18 September a new gallery space is due to open across 400m2 at 18 Avenue Matignon, in Paris, run by the French-Somali art dealer Mariane Ibrahim, with an inaugural...