https://youtu.be/ZnmHebgEktk?si=RdUeRVC8oeA5GzWS Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began...
Wangechi Mutu: After the Metropolitan Museum, the Villa Borghese
https://youtu.be/gNyuk6G2GBE?si=q_i4EeB_Y7jATAV7 Site of grandeur When sites of grandeur reach a certain level, they become religious. Which isn’t to say that visiting such places makes one believe more in Jesus or Buddha. Simply, the feeling...
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Great Return
https://youtu.be/uoNuSN7Ap3s Audacious and monumental Picture a colossal woman, 25 meters long and 9 meters wide, figured three-dimensionally in rounded, simplified shapes and covered in bright, contrasting colors. She is lying on her...
Art Basel in Basel: A Market Between Uncertainty and Resilience
Shielded form the world's Chaos? As Art Basel in Basel opened on June 17, with its festive spirit, endless dinners, and an exceptional program of museum exhibitions held across the city, one might have thought for a moment that the art market...
Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou — a Closing Statement That’ll Leave Its Mark
https://youtu.be/ZT3WhHz1xJU?si=TBv-NHSJDO6_cHL5 Wolfgang Tillmans (born in 1968) is a major figure in the global art scene. For some forty years, the German artist has practiced photography—but not merely in order to capture images. He’s what...
Venice: The Metamorphosis of Palazzo Grassi by Tatiana Trouvé
https://youtu.be/FvLBH3oc3Uk?si=CjemCFvJqRiFAjPg Palazzo Grassi Stepping into the world of Tatiana Trouvé (born in 1968) means entering her “magical mind,” tracing the contours of her unconscious, embracing her singular imagination. In Venice,...
Despite Global Turmoil, the Lalannes’ Work Keeps Breaking the €10 Million Mark
https://youtu.be/BlOYNbjqotc?si=ob2bXAAeUSpqXeDP Gloomy The world is in crisis. The general mood is gloomy, and the art market is feeling the strain, as evidenced by the noticeable drop in transactions during the recent modern and contemporary...
Musée d’Orsay: Lucas Arruda meets Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet and Paul Cézanne
https://youtu.be/1UTkrdude1Q A whirlwind of greenery Suddenly, the world of contemporary art has been swept up in a whirlwind of greenery. Lucas Arruda (born in 1983), a Brazilian landscape painter known for his small-format works, has...
The Art of Tarek Atoui: Mapping Sounds from Milan to Marrakech
https://youtu.be/s67KWsuD478?si=SrBg1ctuvi4jrjz3 Musical memory Did you know that a 500-millisecond music fragment is enough to trigger a person’s memory? In the brain, music is etched more deeply than an oft repeated fact. That’s why, when we...
Paris: The First Major Exhibition Critical of AI
https://youtu.be/LC9adSdclLQ The critique of criticism If art criticism consists in judging the work of artists, then AI criticism consists in examining the harm done by machines that appear to be creative. In Paris, the Jeu de Paume is...
New York: The $70 Million Giacometti Flop and the Rise of Women Artists
https://youtu.be/-u4wjReoASs Missed rendezvous The art market is a sprawling machine that brings together works of the mind—paintings, sculptures—with people who are so moved by such expressions that they are willing to invest significant sums...
Maurizio Cattelan at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. The Game-Changing Banana, the Clown and the Art Lover
https://youtu.be/GsvQtaylo6M Just a banana It seemed like a throwaway work. A banana taped to a wall with silver duct tape, unveiled in 2019 at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. A cheeky jab at the art system, its market and what counts as...