The scene takes place in Amsterdam’s red-light district. In the old alleyways thronging with groups of pimply teenagers doing the kind of window shopping that would be impossible anywhere else, somewhere amid these old, narrow streets where sailors once used to go to...
It is very difficult to come up with something new within the genre of fashion photography, which is highly codified, conventional and often boring in its perfection. Think super skinny models who have barely hit adolescence, perfect lighting, flawless complexions and...
She’s a mythical creature in the history of cinema. Marlene Dietrich, actress turned singer, German turned American, sometimes feminine sometimes androgynous, invented the image of a multifaceted and liberated woman. Her endless legs, those fingers elongated by a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtRGAW_yLQ In these times when extreme nationalism is sweeping the globe it is good to remember that the greatest art is always the fruit of multiple influences of disparate origins. In his “Introduction to the History of...
Gisèle Vienne: "Crowd" While Anne Imhof was staging dark, aesthetically pretentious performances on the theme of gutter punks, which resemble photoshoots for Nordic fashion magazines and for which she was unfortunately awarded the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice...
The multinational gallery-owner Larry Gagosian is not especially known for his soft-heartedness or his lack of interest in business. Hence why I was particularly surprised to learn last October that he would be exhibiting work by a choreographer in the vast Parisian...
Since time immemorial, mankind has wanted to be at the centre of things. In ancient times, for example, the centre of the world for Westerners was Athens followed by Rome, each of which was proud of its status as the central seat of power, whereas elsewhere, in the...
She’s the Wonder Woman of the French contemporary art world. Christine Macel (born in 1969) is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou and this year she was the artistic director of the biggest, most newsworthy contemporary art event in the world, the Venice Biennale or...
Those arriving in Miami for the first time are initially struck by the city’s ubiquitous palm trees with their branches dancing in the wind, the romantic sunsets over the ocean, and the frequent brazenness of the young women, expressed, among other things, via...
In the art world we often talk about the Guggenheim in Bilbao effect, or how a museum managed to transform the image of a city through its exhibitions and architecture. Perhaps we should henceforth be talking about the ABMB effect on Miami. The Florida city is best...
The art public adores suffering artists. They live badly, they die young, they’re ill, but every now and then they produce extraordinary things. In the rankings of this type of artist the gold medal goes to Vincent Van Gogh, but just behind him there is the Italian...
They are the world’s most famous partnership in contemporary art. British artists Gilbert (born in 1943) and George (born in 1942) have been creating art together under their first names for 50 years, since 1967. Yes, they think as one. They even move as one, like...