https://youtu.be/axefSbjy6mw Art history and 21st century How does one invent a new way of painting in the 21st century? There are few artists who belong to this small group who have managed to come up with new alternatives, to...
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...
Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno: a luminous dialogue in Paris
https://youtu.be/iWyIlMBh0lQ Les colonnes de Buren Reducing Daniel Buren to coloured lines on a white background would be like closing your eyes when looking at his art. In France, the artist (born in 1938) and now a veritable institution is...
“You don’t do business with a buyer in sandals and a t-shirt in the same way as in a New York gallery”: the American art market’s exodus to chic seaside resorts
We are on Long Island. Beyond the 45 kilometres of Hamptons coastline, about two hours from New York by car, there is a unique microclimate in America. With an atmosphere known for being tasteful and cool, surrounded by cornfields and old...
Lockdown: Francesco Clemente has reinvented himself in an extraordinary way
https://youtu.be/nVEw7ivxy_g A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art world, one will inevitably have heard of Francesco Clemente since the late 1970s. He is a famous exponent of the Italian art movement known as the...
Lee Krasner at the Guggenheim Bilbao: the rediscovery of an extraordinary painter eclipsed by the creative power of her husband
https://youtu.be/giE0LqylYOA Heroes who die young In art history, posterity favours misfortune and heroes who die young. We love Van Gogh, who died at 37 without having sold a single artwork. We love Nicolas de Staël, who killed himself due to...
Levy-Gorvy, Massimo de Carlo, Per Skarstedt, Marguo…The art dealers descending on Paris
Secondary first It is a little known fact that the majority of galleries representing living artists manage to maintain their business through sales on what is described as the “secondary market”. This involves the resale of older artworks...
In Paris: there may be no Fiac but there are the young artists from Paris Internationale
https://youtu.be/-Gp0p5XRMyI Cancellation On 15 October 2020 Paris’s contemporary art week was meant to have kicked off, which would ordinarily have accompanied the great French Fiac fair, with its plethora of all kinds of events,...
Paul B Preciado: trans activism and contemporary art, the interview
Transitioning Paul B Preciado was born in 1970 in Spain under the name Beatriz Preciado. Today he is one of the most influential philosophers in avant-garde circles. His writing is particularly distinctive. Without orthodoxy, he...
Frieze Viewing Room: the pros and cons of an emerging virtual market for contemporary art
Saturation of events It’s a radical digital revolution. As the coronavirus crisis settles in for the long term across the globe, the virtual initiatives staged by major art-market players are multiplying. Whereas in France the FIAC – which was...
Centre Pompidou Metz: the reciprocal influences of Yves Klein on Lucio Fontana and the Gutai movement
Coming from the sky Didn’t you know? Everything comes from above. In the 1940s watching the sky meant looking for planes that were going to bomb you. That’s where the H-bomb came from, which reduced people to human torches and annihilated all...
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...