https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aes8g44lBog With all these artworks in the millions of dollars whose prices become the most memorable thing about them, with all the fairs you could ever want, with all these figurative or abstract paintings flooding the...
Mr and Mrs… There are certain artists like that, especially when it comes to women, who are always presented as a couple. Take Sonia Delaunay, who is systematically associated with Robert, her guru. Take Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the other half of sculptor Jean Arp… We’re...
Certain figures take their place in the art history pantheon because they’ve invented something new. These rare artists have looked at the world with unusual acuteness and have been bold enough to convey a new message through their art. Within this hall of fame...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKl4hIE6fqM There are certain people like that: the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was also interested in architecture and music, among other things. At the end of the 18th century Goethe the exceptional man of...
Contrary to what the president of the United States Donald Trump would have us believe, America is a multicultural country rich in diversity, particularly when it comes to art. As Adam Weinberg, director of the famous Whitney Museum dedicated to American art in New...
The world of African art collecting has been rocked by an announcement made by Emmanuel Macron on 23 November. Following the submission of a report on the restitution of artworks to Africa, the president of the French Republic has decided to return 26 works requested...
In Japan, the designation of “national treasure” is the highest honour to convey the exceptional value accorded to cultural property of universal significance. In Paris, with relatively little publicity, there are currently no less than six Japanese national treasures...
On 15 November 2017 a painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for 450,312,500 dollars, the highest amount ever attained at auction, which was one of around twenty known to us by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci. This result gave rise to various...
I met the American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (born in 1951) twice at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where he was in the process of installing his exhibition consisting of a dialogue between his own oeuvre and the sublime collections at the museum. Julian...
The prices of art at auction are constantly being pushed up. Although the large auction houses remain anxious to publish the satisfying results so as to globally keep up morale in the field, they also have a desire to conquer certain parts of the market, nowhere more...
The position of outsider is an uncomfortable one. You’re neither the best nor the worst. Phillips auction house, owned by the Russian luxury-goods company Mercury Group, finds itself similarly situated. Yet since 2014 it has been led by one of the greatest experts on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BilamdemOw4 There are names that circulate in the contemporary art world which resemble little refrains that get stuck in your head. You hear them here and there at art fairs and museums on the other side of the world, you...