https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7LAKrSwfDI Léonce Rosenberg The idea of reconstructing the interior space of an art collector has several advantages. Not only does it showcase artistic dialogues rather than individual artworks but it also...
Inside François Pinault’s Bourse de Commerce: the power of figurative painting and Ando’s architecture
https://youtu.be/Zn9YIvr9p5I A poor rural family What more is there to aspire to when you’re an 84-year-old billionaire who was born into a poor rural family in a Breton village? The answer lies in the district of Les Halles in Paris...
Ahead of Art Dubai: Pay a visit to the exciting community studio of the country’s most high-profile artists
https://youtu.be/ZfsdRadJwx8 Abraham Accords Now that Dubai has become an exceptional place in the global context of a planet where travel is prohibited and in a diplomatic context which promotes exchanges – the “Abraham Accords”, the peace...
Art market: speculation on figurative art, digital fatigue, and the growing power of Paris. No crash on the horizon for now…
Safe haven and resilience All the art market specialists agree on at least one thing concerning the forecasts for 2021: there won’t be a crash. This is primarily because, as the dealer and Picasso collector David Nahmad explains: “art remains...
Palazzo Butera: one of the most beautiful palaces in Sicily is all about Art and … immigration
City of migration Palermo is a fascinating city, and one that’s sparked a lot of conversation in recent years. Firstly, this is due to its current international relevance as it’s one of the major sites of migration from Africa to Italy, where its mayor Leoluca...
Le Petit Palais in Paris: the far-reaching project of a private collection of French drawings
Drawing specialist Louis-Antoine Prat is a drawing specialist who happens to be very French. Firstly because the Parisian taught the subject of French drawings at the École du Louvre for no less than 40 years. And secondly because he decided...
Dada and Surrealism: The largest collection of documents in the world goes on sale in Paris
Surrealism and Dada Surrealism and Dada were movements that radically revolutionized not just the art world but also our general ways of thinking, dreaming and writing. Intellectual revolutions If you want to possess testaments to this kind of human...
The Al Thani Collection of Indian jewellery: the auction following lavish exhibitions from Paris to Beijing
Grand tour Between 2016 and 2018 a fabulous collection of jewellery and precious objects went for a round-the-world tour with six stops from New York to London, Paris (the lavish exhibition at the Grand Palais was the subject of a report) to...
George Michael: the singer’s brief passion for the Young British Artists gave rise to a foundation in Dallas and auctions in London
A double success story? The story might go like this: an English pop singer from a modest background becomes a global superstar and buys and supports visual artists, also from modest backgrounds, who found fame around the same time as him: the rather...
Fondation Vuitton: Courtauld amassed pieces by Cézanne, Seurat and Manet in seven years. Zoom in on five exceptional artworks.
The good Impressionnism The word “Impressionism” may be ringing in the ears of the twenty-first-century man like a deterrent. Some people no longer want the endless greenish landscapes of late Pissarros,even though the artist was the great theorist of the movement,...
Tehran: how to keep hope alive through art. Journey to the land of the mullahs where there’s a very active art scene
She told me: “If I were you I would think twice before you decide to go to Tehran. The Grand Bazaar is on strike. The last time that happened the Shah was overthrown”. She’s an American-Iranian friend who receives daily news from Tehran via her family who live in the...
The Carmignac Foundation: Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Richter and Warhol on a paradise island in the south of France
The south of France, with its quality of light and its natural beauty, has long fostered the spirit of sharing in private collectors keen to reveal their treasures to the public. We could mention the Maeght Foundation, which opened in 1964 in Saint-Paul de Vence and...