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...
Huguette Caland at the Reina Sofia, Madrid: The Discovery of an Extraordinary Contemporary Painter
https://youtu.be/NdrPWXv6mQQ?si=SpI8w6fLMVkIZx70 Immense freedom Imagine an artist whose work features in the permanent collections of the world’s most prestigious institutions—from MoMA in New York to the Tate in London, from LACMA in Los...
Giacometti, Fontana, Cézanne…The Season’s Treasures in a Market Under Self-examination
Uncertainty What value do we place on art in times of immense uncertainty? Will Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculptures now be seen as safe havens? Or will they be cast aside due to income losses, especially on the stock market? These...
Geneva: Carol Bove Creates a Conceptual Artwork Spanning an Entire Museum Floor
https://youtu.be/6Xgimxy54t8 Carte Blanche Every winter through spring, the very traditional Museum of Art and History in Geneva lets loose by inviting a contemporary artist to reinterpret its collections. This unique carte blanche frees...
Art Dubai: The Fast Growing Art Bubble
Middle East Buying art—especially contemporary art—is an activity requiring financial ease as well as a calm state of mind. Wars, stock market downturns, shifting taxes… It’s fair to say this isn’t the most favorable time. And yet, a few...
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Most Feminist Painter in History
https://youtu.be/i2Jgl5PwlFo No great women artists “Why have there been no great women artists?” In 1971, American art historian Linda Nochlin published a groundbreaking article in ARTnews that challenged conventional thinking and...
PoMo: You Need to Venture to the Heart of Norway to Find this Impressive New, Small Contemporary Art Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjjY3S53wVI The king Munch While Norway, a constitutional monarchy, has been ruled for 34 years by King Harald V, in the art world, the country remains undeniably under the reign of one superstar painter, albeit...
David Hockney at Fondation Vuitton in Paris: a Bigger Sensation
https://youtu.be/TOzI08Ix4E8 Freedom always The first thing that strikes you upon looking closer at the life of David Hockney—the celebrated British painter who will turn 88 this July—is his freedom. He has always walked the path of...
Warsaw: The Contemporary Art Museum They’ve Been Waiting 20 Years For
https://youtu.be/C2aX2xqltow Testosterone-fueled, Soviet-style building In the center of Warsaw, on Parade Square, stands a 231-meter-high colossus in a dated architectural style: the Palace of Culture. A gift from Stalin, built...
Art Basel Hong Kong: In Asia, the Artists Are Overflowing with Creativity and the Museums Are Multiplying
The center of the art world For one week out of the year, the center of both the art world and the art market is found in Asia—more specifically, Hong Kong. That’s where, from March 28 to 30 this year, Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK) is being held,...
Guggenheim Bilbao: Refik Anadol’s AI Revolution Applied to Frank Gehry’s Creations
https://youtu.be/-u5ui10phds Using artificial intelligence This is not the kind of art one is used to seeing in a traditional museum. Nor is it one of those giant immersive installations, purely decorative, that rehash images from art...