Christo died on 31 May 2020 at the age of 84. He was one of the very first artists that I interviewed early on in my career. I went to meet him in 1993 at his studio in Soho in New York, where I made his acquaintance through the dealer Daniel Varenne, now also...
https://youtu.be/IM2QdRGikHI Ebullient artist It has to be said: Neil Beloufa (born in 1985) is one of today’s most promising artists. The ever-ebullient French artist, represented by Kamel Mennour in Paris, François Ghebaly in Los Angeles...
Patrick Drahi It hit the art market like a bolt from the blue. On 17 June 2019, the French Moroccan-born businessman Patrick Drahi, who specializes in media and telecommunications, announced he had bought one of the world’s two leading auction...
https://youtu.be/B-BqBh5cN5g Works that no longer exist It’s a paradox: the first major exhibition to reopen in Paris addresses, fittingly, the subject of works that no longer exist. But what a pleasure to rediscover art without it...
Only from your computer Until 15 May the Frieze New York virtual fair can be accessed by anyone from their computer, which is the only medium available as a result of the global coronavirus crisis. Frieze London’s younger sister, which...
Silence It’s exceedingly difficult to get insiders to talk about the current evolution of the art market. A number of them refuse to make any statement, others tend to stick to abstract analyses, while a third group prefers to remain...
Between England and Colombia Oscar Murillo is a young artist (born in 1986) who lives between London and the village where he was born in Colombia, and he truly is a multifaceted figure. Sharing the Turner Prize There’s been a lot of talk...
In Japan The Korean artist Lee Ufan (born in 1936), has lived in Japan since he was 20 years old. He has been the subject of various major exhibitions, such as the Guggenheim in New York in 2011 and the park at the Château de Versailles in...
A Living encyclopedia of 20th century art The art historian and curator Germano Celant(1940-2020) has passed away on 29 April 2020, after contracting the coronavirus . He was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century art, which he...
Tirana in bright colors His first great exploit dates from the 2000s. Edi Rama (born in 1964) was the newly elected mayor of Tirana, the capital of Albania (a country with 2.8 million inhabitants), when he decided to have a number of the...
To reinvent obsessions The main strength of artists lies in their ability to reinvent identical obsessions. We are familiar with Subodh Gupta’s work through his installations – accumulations of metal kitchen utensils that have become the...
Leviathan: 72000m3 It was announced in 2011 but it was very difficult to grasp its importance at the time. When the Grand Palais in Paris staged an extraordinary show entitled Monumenta, following the participation of Richard Serra and Anselm...