https://youtu.be/C0KMkaN-qx4 More open to change The public health crisis has made people more open to change and has led to a growing awareness of the importance of physical experiences (meeting friends, listening to live music)...
Tribute to Etel Adnan, poet and painter
https://youtu.be/eLoob9CzooM Recognition in Art can be belated. It was only in 2012, at Documenta in Kassel, that Etel Adnan(born in 1925) was honoured. Since then this woman warrior whose weapons were poetry and painting, this woman of magnificent sensibility...
De Kooning: “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine”. An astonishing dialogue between the two genius in Paris
https://youtu.be/q7rBYGoFz98 The legacy of the artist It is utterly fascinating to learn why an artist starts to paint such or such a thing that goes on to secure their artistic legacy. This is the subject on display until 10 January at the...
Will the Macklowe collection reach a billion dollars at Sotheby’s? Harry Macklowe also talks about his new collection
https://youtu.be/5lhu6XXCBNk Art market/Art history For the past few years now the art market has been making its grand entrance into art history. In museums there have been exhibitions dedicated to great art dealers such as Ambroise Vollard or...
Arthur Jafa. Inside the meandering mind of the Golden Lion award-winner, from Caravaggio to Kanye West
https://youtu.be/YFhT55y8xLs Love is the message... Let’s use the big words: Arthur Jafa (born in 1960) is probably one of the most relevant artists of our time thanks to his creation of three films headed by “Love is the message. The message...
Fiac : Paris’s powerful return to the global scene of the contemporary art market
Several art markets Seen in light of recent events, it could be said that there’s not one but rather several art markets. The star work in Paris: Calder So what’s the common thread between the sale for 21.4 million euros at Sotheby’s in London...
Frieze: Brexit + Covid. How is London coping?
Catastrophic Brexit Seen from Paris, in terms of the art market, the end to Britain’s membership of the European Union seems catastrophic. When Brexit was announced, many multinational galleries like Zwirner and Levy-Gorvy almost instantly...
Edmund de Waal: follow the artist’s guided tour through the Musée Nissim de Camondo, to celebrate the memory of a vanished fascinating family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvCcyJkZbsg Moise de Camondo First it was a house. From 1911 Moïse de Camondo used his mansion located in the Plaine-Monceau district of Paris as a place to house his collection of French art. Then it...
Alex Katz: the video interview with the 94-year-old painter who hates being bored
https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Same since the 1950s Imagine an artist who – since the 1950s – has always painted in the same style, with more or less the same subjects, using very similar colours. This is the American artist Alex Katz (born in...
Art Basel: The spectacular resilience of the biggest contemporary art fair in the world
Resilience Resilience. Since the onset of the public health crisis sweeping the entire planet, this is a word that has been used extensively – and not always correctly. But if there’s a field that truly merits this label, it’s the art market....
Damien Hirst: a new series of works which are photogenic but devoid of meaning
https://youtu.be/hbhprpFeE_0 Large scale and large number It must be the sensation of the season in Paris. At the Fondation Cartier, Damien Hirst (born in 1965), the superstar from the 1990s and former leader of the Young British Artists, is...
The artist Ser Serpas, 26, unveiled at Luma Zurich and the Pinault collection: a video interview
https://youtu.be/VnR1g5Y0BoY Dumas, Doig and Serpas Ser Serpas is 26 years old and she is astonishingly free. This young woman, who was born in Los Angeles and whose mother is a police officer, is one of the stars of the Pinault...