Morning calm and soft power If there is one country that has mastered the art of soft power, it is South Korea. In just a few years, the “Land of Morning Calm” has become a global cultural reference point, especially for younger generations....
Maiolino at the Picasso Museum: The Golden Lion and Her Beautiful Clay Metaphors
https://youtu.be/Ng2-g8ImgEk?si=8_HaXiEnGgBXqQ2L The fate of women There’s a great deal embedded in the work of Anna Maria Maiolino. But nothing reveals itself at first glance. The artist—who, though born in Italy in 1942, has spent most of her...
Come Summer, Arles Blooms Into Capital of the International Scene, Now Featuring Wael Shawky and Ho Tzu Nyen
Van Gogh, tourist magnet The scorching sun, the Rhône winding majestically through the city, lively café terraces, Roman ruins, Van Gogh—the ever-present tourist magnet—and everywhere, down one alley or another, contemporary art exhibitions....
In a Little Paradise of Abstraction, on the Island of Porquerolles
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...