Modern Treasures For a long time Russia jealously guarded its modern art treasures, its breathtaking Matisses, the climactic sensations of its Monets, its radically cubist Picassos, the lost paradise of its Gauguins, without determining...
Damien Hirst: a new series of works which are photogenic but devoid of meaning
https://youtu.be/hbhprpFeE_0 Large scale and large number It must be the sensation of the season in Paris. At the Fondation Cartier, Damien Hirst (born in 1965), the superstar from the 1990s and former leader of the Young British Artists, is...
An homage to Christian Boltanski
14 July 2021 All his life Christian Boltanski was obsessed by death. At his final large-scale exhibition, a retrospective conceived as a single artwork in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, with its premonitory title “Faire son temps” (“Life in the making”), he spoke...
In Venice at the Prada Foundation, Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grimani: the three most beautiful exhibitions on show
https://youtu.be/6MAhlc0J7Uc Not the architecture Biennale No, it wasn’t the architecture biennale that made me rush to Venice. I initially found it intellectually stimulating, with all the societal and ecological questions it...
Les Lalanne in Versailles and Williamstown. The prodigious rise of their ostriches, cabbages and sheep at auction
Stephan Zweig “It was a doll’s house, this Little Trianon (…) This ‘Anglo-Chinese garden’ was to represent, not merely nature, but the whole of nature. In the microcosm of a few square kilometers, there was to be a quasi-microscopic...
Kunsthaus Zurich: The great landscape of Gerhard Richter’s extraordinary landscapes
https://youtu.be/B4sqjQECVgk Great painter It’s generally taken as a given that Gerhard Richter is one of the great painters from the latter half of the 20th century. But for anyone who may still have doubts on the subject, it’s worth...
Francis Bacon and Peter Beard: an unlikely friendship that takes the form of an exhibition in London
https://youtu.be/ELj2brIz4OA An Irishman and an American dandy Take an American dandy who liked women, wild animals and photography. Then take another dandy, an Irishman who loved men and made paintings depicting torment and suffering with...
Our brain is a battlefield: the theory behind the exhibition of the future. By Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar
https://youtu.be/-pI4A56LDfI Neologism Messenger RNA, mutated virus, comorbidity, NFTs, blockchain, quantum theory, big data... The world in 2021 is filled – along with our heads – with an assortment of new words which, prior to the public...
Sex and painting: the great art of love. An exhibition and a book that could only exist in France
Mass sanitization These are times of mass sanitization. Long before we wore masks and handwashing justifiably became a global obsession, in another field the presence of sex in art was banished from the major themes of exhibitions in the...
William Kentridge: the Mudam in Luxembourg displays his absolute masterpiece, a projection across 21 metres
The exception of Luxembourg Luxembourg is known for its unique system of banking. What is less well known is that the duchy is also unique in terms of its museums compared to France, since this type of cultural institution is currently open...
Grenoble, Beijing, New York: Giorgio Morandi is the subject of worldwide fascination
https://youtu.be/RqF3Z5EjvpM Morandi mystery There is a sense of mystery about Morandi. For an artist who seems to have painted the same subject his entire life – carafes, bowls and vases in muted colours – from his tiny bedroom in Bologna,...
Anselm Kiefer’s spectacular renaissance and his installation at the Panthéon in Paris
https://youtu.be/7Ytoz98rzSk Gagosian Le Bourget It’s probably the biggest aesthetic show of emotion in France right now. At Gagosian’s space located in Le Bourget, at the heart of the air terminal complex for private jets, which is...