Frivolity The situation is this: Miami, the famous Floridian resort city synonymous with frivolity, has become, against all odds, the epicenter of a very serious American art market. This phenomenon occurs annually during the first week of...
Arte Povera : Artist by Artist at the Pinault collection
Disparate offering As its name suggests, the Pinault Collection in Paris was designed to showcase the works of art amassed by the businessman François Pinault within the Bourse de Commerce. Up until now the site has presented exhibitions which...
Ahead of the Guggenheim in New York, Rashid Johnson is in Paris at Hauser & Wirth
https://youtu.be/b2cUd2wLFew?si=ygOjIGO90BtAHE7a Global scale The American artist Rashid Johnson (born in 1977) is one of the global stars of current art. This handsome man with his colossal stature and sparkling smile exhibits a rare...
New York Modern and Contemporary Auctions: The Best and Worst Surprises
Cattelan from the 2010s There are vogues in Contemporary art, and one might have thought that the New York-based Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (born in 1960) was purely a product of the 2010s. After all, it was in 2016 that this ace of...
Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York: from Duchamp to Cattelan, Monet to Magritte
https://youtube.com/shorts/sxNNq8lCSXk?si=0RW92w_x3qnCm0Jy Marcel Duchamp In 1964 Marcel Duchamp decided to reissue, in partnership with the Milanese dealer Arturo Schwartz, four “readymades” created in the 1910s. He was the one who invented...
“You saw nothing in Hiroshima”. How the Atom Changed Art, an exhibition in Paris
https://youtu.be/E8nWpzFloYY?si=tIyaq1PSIWQhwz04 Humanity’s greatest catastrophes In 1959, Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras released Hiroshima mon amour, a film punctuated like a refrain by the words of the Japanese hero who tells his French...
Paris-Photo: All the Shades of Man Ray at the Grand Palais
What is a collection? “The collection is a work of art that is offered up for viewing. At first, we advance as though in a forest, not knowing where we are, with no points of reference. But we meet people along the way with whom we enter into...
Wesselmann, the Pop artist who painted in 3D
https://youtu.be/rZJlJ75b7tc Backwards and forwards This is how the avant-garde works: in order to move forwards, it looks backwards. To allow their creation to grow and bear fruit, artists use the work of their elders as a catalyst. It was in...
Paris: the colossal impact of Art Basel at the Grand Palais
Grand-Palais effect There is an “Art Basel effect” within the art market, or in other words, how an entire city can be transformed over a few days by a massive influx of art professionals but also art fans, who come expecting the best in...
Frieze week in London from Manet to Emin: ambitions and surprises
Art Basel Paris The entire art world has been waiting for this crucial moment for a long time: the Art Basel Paris fair - with its international clout - which is taking place for the first time under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, one of...
Kengo Kuma and Leonor Antunes reinvent the space of a museum, the CAM Gulbenkian in Lisbon
Fabulous collections The Gulbenkian name is globally synonymous with fabulous collections. It first belonged to an Armenian businessman, Calouste being his first name (1869-1955), who managed at one time to obtain a 5% share of all oil...
Hong Kong: the ups and downs of the art market
https://youtube.com/shorts/YYT5sVEZMwQ?si=nijLyFSzf-8HR_yd Spirit of conquest always As the general context fuels many concerns across the world, the spirit of conquest still seems to be the watchword in the art market. In Hong Kong, for...