https://youtu.be/DmbhooI2Fs0?si=GhMFyMMphOegxZ3T Sacred monster of French abstraction We thought we knew everything about Pierre Soulages—until the Musée du Luxembourg unveiled a remarkable small exhibition devoted to his work on paper. Many...
Art Basel in Paris: The Euphoria of Abundance and the Giant Sad Frog
Sad Kermit A 19.5-meter-long inflatable frog presides, temporarily, over Place Vendôme in Paris. The American artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980) brought it to Paris with the help of his London gallerist Sadie Coles, at the invitation of Clément...
The Fondation Cartier returns to the heart of things — to the Palais Royal — with an architectural tour de force by Jean Nouvel
https://youtu.be/YlIWVJ8Ul7c Multidirectional vision Something remarkable happens when you arrive at this museum. Our gaze embraces everything — or almost everything — across three levels. The visitor is astonished by this multidirectional and...
Frieze in London: the Good News
Consequences of Brexit Seen from France, the London art market—with the consequences of Brexit, the simultaneous rise of the French capital, and the growing importance of Art Basel Paris (to be held October 24–26, 2025, at the Grand...
Fondation Louis Vuitton: The Genius of Gerhard Richter on a Grand Scale
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,...