The stuff of dreams When the superstar of French culture André Malraux (1901-1976) - the former minister with a lyrical turn of phrase - stated in his book “Les voix du silence” (The Voices of Silence) that “the museum is a confrontation of...
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...
The art that makes you feel good (1)
Richard Prince (Choice of Edouard Carmignac) The online world In our new experience of the relationship between art and the internet, the online world has won. The sensation produced by the phone or computer screen almost always predominates...
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...
Basquiat at the Vuitton Foundation (2): When Yusaku Maezawa, the buyer of the $110.5m Basquiat, discusses his collection and his dreams of flying to the moon
The Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa (born in 1975), the eighteenth richest man in Japan according to Forbes, founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall, Zozotown, became an overnight celebrity in May 2017 when he announced that he’d purchased an enormous...
Glenstone Foundation in Potomac: A lesson in collecting contemporary art but also a contemplative experience
The American businessman Mitchell Rales (born in 1956) can’t be said to be wanting for money. Forbes values the wealth of this man, who started out in real estate in 1983, at 3.5 billion dollars and ranks him 652nd in their list of the world’s richest people in 2018....
At the Centre Pompidou: the fascinating ugliness of FRANZ WEST’s art. Testimonies from David Zwirner to Robert Fleck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj_FQj_faHw Imagine a world where the most popular slogan among young people is “peace and love”, a world where chemically induced paradises are the norm, where the orderly and materialist virtues of the capitalist middle...
At the Morgan Library and published by Taschen: the collection that sums up the world in 100,000 manuscripts from Michelangelo to Warhol
Jackson Pollock, Napoleon, Hirohito, Marie Antoinette, Oscar Wilde, Adam Smith, Malcolm X, Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Sigmund Freud, four twelfth-century popes, Andy Warhol, and many...
Damien Hirst: His gigantic resurrection is on display in Venice at the Pinault Foundation
This is the tale of an artist who for ten years has been very secretly working away on a repertoire of works that will reinvent his creation. This is the tale of Damien Hirst (born 1965), who is attempting a resurrection in Venice by way of a sprawling and...
Adrian Cheng wants a Kunsthalle for Beijing
In a very short amount of time, Hong Kong businessman Adrian Cheng, 36, has become a ubiquitous character in the globalized art world. In the space of two years, he’s emerged as an important funder for New York’s Metropolitan Museum, where he financed an education...
The Very Delicate Matter of the Rothschilds’ Rembrandts
Once upon a time there was a man who spent every one of his nights sleeping under the benevolent gaze of two exceptional human beings. Mr. and Ms. Soolmans were born in 1634 under the brush of one of art history’s most celebrated painters, Rembrandt. And so every...