Definite slowdown At TEFAF Maastricht, which brings together 271 galleries from 21 countries from March 15 to 20, 2025, dealers readily admit: The market is experiencing a definite slowdown, outside of truly exceptional pieces. And so, they are...
Centre Pompidou-Metz: Escaping the Current Western Order According to Manuel Borja-Villel
https://youtu.be/g0nKm0D89oI Manuel Borja -Villel https://youtu.be/Vg5B8EyEbfs In times of uncertainty, alongside the shouting oracles from the world of economics, strategy and politics, artistic minds are venturing their own alternative...
ARCO Madrid: Selling for Less, to Sell More
Not in a buying mood Amid global upheavals, even the wealthiest collectors are not in a buying mood. So, what can be done in a rather sluggish contemporary art market? Two strategies can be observed amongst the world's most powerful galleries....
Is It a Mountain or a Mathematical Curve? AI and Generative Art: Pioneering Works Up for Auction
Artificial intelligence Through March 5, Christie’s is hosting an online-only sale that began on February 20, featuring 34 works of art produced exclusively using artificial intelligence. This unprecedented auction, titled “Augmented...
Mark Bradford in Berlin: What You See is Not What You Think It Is
https://youtu.be/UBykyt766Js?si=uzKRGMcUMBR7jSOz The roots At the root of art, you’ll find the roots of the artist. Many artists hold fast to their roots and their early struggles, transforming these experiences into creative fuel. Mark...
Fondation Cartier: the Dazzling Olga de Amaral. When the Canvas becomes the Artwork
https://youtu.be/jNxVe4K8ttg Challenging the easel Here, what constitutes the very substance of the canvas becomes the artwork by itself. Since the 1920s and the advent of the Bauhaus movement, it has been officially agreed upon that a...
Marrakech, Gateway to the African Art Market
Arab World, focal point As the Chinese art market becomes increasingly insular, it is the Arab world which has become the new focal point, the new El Dorado of the contemporary art market. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the second iteration of the...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...
Paris :The Unexpected Union of Markus Lüpertz and Aristide Maillol
https://youtu.be/fhKLQQAXlN0?si=Vrsb39QNWStT0bb6 Markus Lüpertz Just as gifted artists push us to look differently at life itself, they also help us see the art of others in a new light. Such is the case of Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941), a...
Chiharu Shiota at the New Grand Palais: She Uses Kilometers of Thread For Healing
https://youtu.be/oh2poy5-aJw Healing Artists possess a precious ability: they can heal themselves through their work. Take Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972). She explains that when she decided to settle in Berlin—where she still lives...
London:The Making of Bacon’s Portraits like Real Life Pictures of Dorian Gray
https://youtu.be/4w_LrhEf9IE?si=hWT73BQgiHIRM_-E National portrait gallery There’s no better institution than the National Portrait Gallery in London to host a Francis Bacon (1909–1992) exhibition. Firstly, because this extraordinary painter...
Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum in New York: A Manifesto of “Blood Memories”
https://youtu.be/jTWVZ1gDQsI Human obsession Dance is a human obsession that social media has taken up in extraordinary ways: It’s one of the more heartening trends that spread on the new platforms. Young and old, professional and...