https://youtu.be/nVEw7ivxy_g A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art world, one will inevitably have heard of Francesco Clemente since the late 1970s. He is a famous exponent of the Italian art movement known as the...
Altdorfer at the Louvre :The artists who are the best at marketing are the ones who make history
Biographers and trends No one should believe that art history presents a fair view of artistic creation. Artists’ legacies wax and wane according to the changing tastes of biographers and trends. Such is the case for the German artist Albrecht...
Sotheby’s: maintaining positive results at the expense of transparency at auction
Huge responsibility The major auction houses have a huge responsibility with regards to the entire art market. Through the publication of their official auction results – combined with market databases such as Artnet or Artprice acting as...
Manifesta in Marseille: the very political European biennial closes prematurely after facing challenges from the ex-mayor and Covid
https://youtu.be/OzL5Wq1KGQc European Dutch Biennal Manifesta is a Europe-wide contemporary art biennial that takes place each time in a different city, having originally been Dutch and directed by Hedwig Fijen. After having seen the edition...
Lee Krasner at the Guggenheim Bilbao: the rediscovery of an extraordinary painter eclipsed by the creative power of her husband
https://youtu.be/giE0LqylYOA Heroes who die young In art history, posterity favours misfortune and heroes who die young. We love Van Gogh, who died at 37 without having sold a single artwork. We love Nicolas de Staël, who killed himself due to...
Levy-Gorvy, Massimo de Carlo, Per Skarstedt, Marguo…The art dealers descending on Paris
Secondary first It is a little known fact that the majority of galleries representing living artists manage to maintain their business through sales on what is described as the “secondary market”. This involves the resale of older artworks...
Matisse: the most anticipated exhibition in Paris is disappointing despite the sublime artworks
https://youtu.be/qeah722Q5Ew Genius Henri Matisse is, without doubt, a painter of genius and an endless source of visual surprises and delight. The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth was...
In Paris: there may be no Fiac but there are the young artists from Paris Internationale
https://youtu.be/-Gp0p5XRMyI Cancellation On 15 October 2020 Paris’s contemporary art week was meant to have kicked off, which would ordinarily have accompanied the great French Fiac fair, with its plethora of all kinds of events,...
Paul B Preciado: trans activism and contemporary art, the interview
Transitioning Paul B Preciado was born in 1970 in Spain under the name Beatriz Preciado. Today he is one of the most influential philosophers in avant-garde circles. His writing is particularly distinctive. Without orthodoxy, he...
Victor Brauner: the forgotten surrealist eye rediscovered by the Musée d’art moderne in Paris
By Duchamp, Picabia, Bataille, Bunuel During the surrealist period, the visual organ was an obsession. Marcel Duchamp wanted to make “non-retinal” art, while in 1921 Francis Picabia produced a collage filled with pieces of text with the...
Tatiana Trouvé: her extraordinary headlines drawn during lockdown
https://youtu.be/-f26c9NbR2M Confined Generally, when speaking to artists during these extraordinary times – where the impact is felt on a global scale and involves a large part of the population being confined to their homes – they don’t...
Frieze Viewing Room: the pros and cons of an emerging virtual market for contemporary art
Saturation of events It’s a radical digital revolution. As the coronavirus crisis settles in for the long term across the globe, the virtual initiatives staged by major art-market players are multiplying. Whereas in France the FIAC – which was...