by Judith Benhamou | Jun 8, 2017 | Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Photography
Walker Evans Walker Evans Walker Evans Walker Evans Walker Evans The tragedy of great artists is their far-sightedness means they’re often misunderstood. Take the American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975), one of the very big names in world photography, someone...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 12, 2016 | Collection, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Museum, Video interviews
This is the story of a man who in 1969 opened a store selling jeans and ended up with a ready-to-wear empire spanning 3,100 outlets across the globe. It’s also the story of the simple son of a cabinet-maker from San Francisco who accumulated a collection of...
by Judith Benhamou | May 1, 2016 | Museum
Andy Warhol SF MOMA Gerhard Richter Sigmar Polke Andy Warhol Contemporary room SF Moma In times past, the great European museums were founded around royal collections. In more recent memory, in the US particularly, it was through the largesse of business moguls that...
