https://youtu.be/zxItYejrUOI Magic There is a certain magic that exceptional artists possess — the ability to renew their vocabulary endlessly while remaining unmistakably themselves. It is not so much that they crave novelty; rather,...
Bourse de Commerce in Paris: Minimal, But Not Quite
https://youtu.be/oiqjrU6ZFY8 François Pinault Season after season in Paris — and in Venice at the Punta della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi — the Pinault Collection’s program continues to reveal different facets of the vast ensemble amassed by...
Irving Penn: A Historic Sale
https://youtu.be/k71kMCpGtt0?si=RZafvMibrTPPueHn Stylist of the female image Among the pantheon of modern fashion photographers stand two American talents turned legends: Richard Avedon (1923–2009) and Irving Penn (1917–2009). Among their many...
The Return of Madame X: John Singer Sargent’s Radical Icon at the Musée d’Orsay
https://youtu.be/S1NHvbciBFY?si=3FSAGe-7heUC0dcX Madame X and Princess X The title of the work is Madame X. Imagine a fashionable artist pretending to anonymize, in this way, the portrait of a well-known woman. The effect is guaranteed. In...
Bando, the Forgotten Franco-Japanese Modern Master, Is Rediscovered at Auction in Paris
Like Van Gogh “It is not because I sell little that I am a bad painter.” On August 22, 1882, Vincent van Gogh closed a letter to his brother Theo with these words, complaining of the hurtful remarks of a shortsighted art dealer. As he...
Georges de La Tour and There Was Light: The Mystical Beauty of Chiaroscuro in Paris
https://youtu.be/0Y81nKHGEMA?si=7njVbwZrhaV82n9T Light obsession For painters, light is an obsession. It is what gives life to a picture, sometimes to the point of provoking a mystical response.(Take for instance the light in Cézanne paintings,...
Panorama: Towards a New Model of Art Fair in Italy—Less Business-Oriented, More about Sharing
https://youtu.be/KnGmc6-kgdo Panorama Pozzuoli At a time when the art market is caught in a chasm of pessimism, a small four-day event in Italy breathed new life into the idea of the fair, animated by a fresh and invigorating spirit. Here...
How to Read the World Through Diagrams According to Rem Koolhaas. An other Radical Exhibition at Fondazione Prada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwNSOiLlTI Global celebrity The architect Rem Koolhaas (born in 1944) is a global celebrity in his field. Winner of the Pritzker Prize, he has signed such landmark projects as the CCTV tower in Beijing,...
When Giants Converse: The encounter of Lee Ufan and Michelangelo Pistoletto
https://youtu.be/9NV4pUxSQE4 In Lee Ufan Arles Through October 5, Lee Ufan Arles—the institution that the Korean artist opened in 2022 in the Camargue—presents “A Conversation Piece,” a dialogue between his own work and that of Michelangelo...
Frieze Seoul: in Seoul, the Soft Power Platform Faces the Art Market Crisis
Morning calm and soft power If there is one country that has mastered the art of soft power, it is South Korea. In just a few years, the “Land of Morning Calm” has become a global cultural reference point, especially for younger generations....
What Summer Has Wrought on the Art Market
Blum's gallery sunset https://youtu.be/6ZolG16fIOY?si=IyYLG7_pAmqacA5C On 1 July, a bombshell announcement shook the global art market. Blum, one of the most influential galleries in the United States—and more specifically Los...
Maiolino at the Picasso Museum: The Golden Lion and Her Beautiful Clay Metaphors
https://youtu.be/Ng2-g8ImgEk?si=8_HaXiEnGgBXqQ2L The fate of women There’s a great deal embedded in the work of Anna Maria Maiolino. But nothing reveals itself at first glance. The artist—who, though born in Italy in 1942, has spent most of her...