https://youtu.be/zpbrtj6R_Lw?si=0NWKIFRn3LnPRcv0 By tradition By tradition, the English people have long harbored a visceral love for their countryside. For years, the archetype of this attachment was embodied by a sovereign—headscarf tied,...
The Immense Modern Cézanne at Beyeler
https://youtu.be/pbMMtJaGkEE?si=UV37tnEARM3b_ewu Rare privilege A substantial exhibition devoted to Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is always a major event. The colossal force of the Aixois master’s work rarely disappoints. So having the opportunity...
Berthe Weill: Why Was This Missing Link in the History of Modern Art—the First Dealer of Picasso—Completely Forgotten? It Takes More Than a Keen Eye to Succeed
https://youtu.be/_RXKYlw-rB8?si=KFONA8qg-OgYqWnS La Boheme At the beginning of the 20th century, Montmartre was a territory of poverty and bohemia, filled with shantytowns, inhabited by street performers, circus people, "grisettes" and other...
London: Kerry James Marshall, one of the most important painters of our time
https://youtu.be/-pd-TWUaU24?si=lTTsXrJc7iOFXtVd Royal Academy In London, the Royal Academy is the country’s most renowned custodian of art. Inside, its neo-classical palace—with mouldings shaped like temples—fits squarely within the aesthetic...
Here Is the Testimony of Two Grande Dames of the Art World: Sheila Hicks and Monique Lévi-Strauss
https://youtu.be/3w93mVWNMJk?si=q5g1qmQ5fYn6dnxq Tristes tropiques In 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss published a masterpiece that would change minds forever: Tristes tropiques (published in 1961 in English). Not only did he dare to take on a...
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris. In the 18th Century Greuze Was Already Depicting Sexual Predators
https://youtu.be/BbtWXAtAKkI It's not a gallant scene She looks at you with her huge, innocent eyes, discreetly filled with fear. Her complexion is porcelain, and from her silky bodice emerges the nipple of a small milky breast. Her appearance...
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,...