Arab World, focal point As the Chinese art market becomes increasingly insular, it is the Arab world which has become the new focal point, the new El Dorado of the contemporary art market. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the second iteration of the...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...
Paris :The Unexpected Union of Markus Lüpertz and Aristide Maillol
https://youtu.be/fhKLQQAXlN0?si=Vrsb39QNWStT0bb6 Markus Lüpertz Just as gifted artists push us to look differently at life itself, they also help us see the art of others in a new light. Such is the case of Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941), a...
The Remains of the Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent Collections
Global elegance https://youtu.be/wJTfJ8AeCjg?si=TYIBI3YQnZZZ6WH1 For a long time, the ecosystem of global elegance was driven from Paris by two rival clans. On one side was Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), founder of his eponymous fashion house...
Guggenheim New York: 1912 — When Paris Turned Painting into Magic Circles
https://youtu.be/-_9MYKJa9XM?si=uNFHeFS-xmGDFuM9 Paris: creative effervescence A nest teeming with artists: Paris was, for nearly a century up until the Second World War, the global epicenter of an unusually creative effervescence. From Camille...
Chiharu Shiota at the New Grand Palais: She Uses Kilometers of Thread For Healing
https://youtu.be/oh2poy5-aJw Healing Artists possess a precious ability: they can heal themselves through their work. Take Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972). She explains that when she decided to settle in Berlin—where she still lives...
London:The Making of Bacon’s Portraits like Real Life Pictures of Dorian Gray
https://youtu.be/4w_LrhEf9IE?si=hWT73BQgiHIRM_-E National portrait gallery There’s no better institution than the National Portrait Gallery in London to host a Francis Bacon (1909–1992) exhibition. Firstly, because this extraordinary painter...
Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum in New York: A Manifesto of “Blood Memories”
https://youtu.be/jTWVZ1gDQsI Human obsession Dance is a human obsession that social media has taken up in extraordinary ways: It’s one of the more heartening trends that spread on the new platforms. Young and old, professional and...
Max Hollein and the Transformations Shaking Up the Metropolitan Museum
Immense ambitions It is a cultural beacon in the United States. It is also the torchbearer of encyclopedic museums worldwide, in competition with the Louvre for the title of world’s greatest museum. This institution housing over 2 million works...
Hilma af Klint in Bilbao: The Gehry Effect that Turns a Museum into a Temple
Klimt or Klint? There are two kinds of modern art enthusiasts. Those who, upon hearing the name Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), assume it to be a typo for a relative of Gustav Klimt, the famous Austrian painter. And the others, fewer in number, who...
Art Basel Miami Beach: Tremors of the Post-Election Market
Frivolity The situation is this: Miami, the famous Floridian resort city synonymous with frivolity, has become, against all odds, the epicenter of a very serious American art market. This phenomenon occurs annually during the first week of...
Arte Povera : Artist by Artist at the Pinault collection
Disparate offering As its name suggests, the Pinault Collection in Paris was designed to showcase the works of art amassed by the businessman François Pinault within the Bourse de Commerce. Up until now the site has presented exhibitions which...