Quietly wise young man Painting has a kind of magic: it can open onto other senses. This is the case with the canvases of Yu Nishimura (born in 1982), which almost always evoke silence—or sometimes the crackling of old screens that distort...
Berthe Weill: Why Was This Missing Link in the History of Modern Art—the First Dealer of Picasso—Completely Forgotten? It Takes More Than a Keen Eye to Succeed
https://youtu.be/_RXKYlw-rB8?si=KFONA8qg-OgYqWnS La Boheme At the beginning of the 20th century, Montmartre was a territory of poverty and bohemia, filled with shantytowns, inhabited by street performers, circus people, "grisettes" and other...
Meriem Bennani at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris: Do You Know the Very Serious Language of Flip-Flops?
https://youtu.be/51tTGSImc5E?si=nLdlkp3wRhBTZSm0 Sense of astonishment This group of silent, motionless people does not have the attitude one ordinarily observes in a museum setting. They are rather young, sitting close together, among friends,...
London: Kerry James Marshall, one of the most important painters of our time
https://youtu.be/-pd-TWUaU24?si=lTTsXrJc7iOFXtVd Royal Academy In London, the Royal Academy is the country’s most renowned custodian of art. Inside, its neo-classical palace—with mouldings shaped like temples—fits squarely within the aesthetic...
Here Is the Testimony of Two Grande Dames of the Art World: Sheila Hicks and Monique Lévi-Strauss
https://youtu.be/3w93mVWNMJk?si=q5g1qmQ5fYn6dnxq Tristes tropiques In 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss published a masterpiece that would change minds forever: Tristes tropiques (published in 1961 in English). Not only did he dare to take on a...
Paris: Pablo Picasso and Philip Guston— the grotesque as a political weapon, a subject of our time
https://youtu.be/Q2aiNu3nGIw The grotesque and Picasso In the vast landscape of exhibitions devoted to exploring the work, life and habits of the greatest painter of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso, there is one obvious subject that had never...
The Great Magic of Wifredo Lam at MoMA: Where Trees Speak and Birds Are Gods
https://youtu.be/JlZFZgi-Jeo Magical beliefs It is an extraordinary world, steeped in magical beliefs and the polar opposite of a Western Cartesian mindset. It is inhabited by hybrid beings, stretched to the extreme, hidden within a...
Lina Ghotmeh, architect: imagination rises from the ruins
https://youtu.be/1_saHy29KRc?si=tAOHzieFFg6thPcw To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Judith Benhamou Reports, I invited five leading figures from the art world to speak publicly with us: Glenn Lowry, Maja Hoffmann, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lina...
Musée du Petit Palais, Paris. In the 18th Century Greuze Was Already Depicting Sexual Predators
https://youtu.be/BbtWXAtAKkI It's not a gallant scene She looks at you with her huge, innocent eyes, discreetly filled with fear. Her complexion is porcelain, and from her silky bodice emerges the nipple of a small milky breast. Her appearance...
Does a $236 Million Klimt Signal the End of the Market Crisis?
https://youtu.be/0hmym3W53No?si=5BLGmQ9yZBx3IK1l 236.4 million Rationality is the enemy of artists. They obey more poetic rules, which lend an exceptional magic to the works they produce. As a result, these paintings or sculptures can sometimes...
Studio Museum: The Harlem-Born Institution with a Flair for Discovering Artists Reopens in Grand Style
https://youtu.be/8NZC9iFStv8?si=ralfyE9dMdU5W4AL African American culture Barely a few hours after a Socialist mayor of Indian origin was elected to lead New York City, another politically crucial event was taking place in the same megalopolis,...
The Three Names That Matter in New York This November: Leonard Lauder, Gustav Klimt, and Marcel Breuer -COPY
https://youtu.be/Iyfu93YEhpE?si=gdTfSG7F5LGuNs_6 Generous trustees In the United States, unlike in France, museums are rarely funded by the public sector. To attract ever greater private generosity, they have developed an elaborate system of...