Ever since Marcel Duchamp presented an upside-down urinal which he called “Fountain” and the artistic community decided this was an act of significance, ever since artists began distorting silhouettes to imprint upon them their personal feelings and impressions while...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTJYVDMXfow The French language is facetious. In order to provide an emphatic and worthy name for amateur artists, for those who practise a hobby, it has found a unique description that’s even entered international usage:...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aes8g44lBog With all these artworks in the millions of dollars whose prices become the most memorable thing about them, with all the fairs you could ever want, with all these figurative or abstract paintings flooding the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKl4hIE6fqM There are certain people like that: the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was also interested in architecture and music, among other things. At the end of the 18th century Goethe the exceptional man of...
Contrary to what the president of the United States Donald Trump would have us believe, America is a multicultural country rich in diversity, particularly when it comes to art. As Adam Weinberg, director of the famous Whitney Museum dedicated to American art in New...
I met the American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (born in 1951) twice at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where he was in the process of installing his exhibition consisting of a dialogue between his own oeuvre and the sublime collections at the museum. Julian...
The prices of art at auction are constantly being pushed up. Although the large auction houses remain anxious to publish the satisfying results so as to globally keep up morale in the field, they also have a desire to conquer certain parts of the market, nowhere more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BilamdemOw4 There are names that circulate in the contemporary art world which resemble little refrains that get stuck in your head. You hear them here and there at art fairs and museums on the other side of the world, you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roF4jWEqBLg Even though Andy Warhol may not have had the museum namesake he deserved in New York – only Pittsburgh accepted a Warhol Museum after his premature death – and even though he isn’t actually buried there...
Sean Scully (born in 1945) cuts an imposing figure. Tall in stature, he moves slowly. His face is stern. He has thin lips. A shaved head. He could play the role of a bad guy in a film. He has a reputation for being difficult, but after spending a short time in his...
The next modern and contemporary art sales of the season will take place the week of the 12 November in New York. The programme features a large amount of expensive art, the most expensive of the last six months, being passed from one hand to another with creations...
“Lacquerware is light and soft to the touch and gives off hardly a sound. I know few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a...