https://youtu.be/FvLBH3oc3Uk?si=CjemCFvJqRiFAjPg Palazzo Grassi Stepping into the world of Tatiana Trouvé (born in 1968) means entering her “magical mind,” tracing the contours of her unconscious, embracing her singular imagination. In Venice,...
Despite Global Turmoil, the Lalannes’ Work Keeps Breaking the €10 Million Mark
https://youtu.be/BlOYNbjqotc?si=ob2bXAAeUSpqXeDP Gloomy The world is in crisis. The general mood is gloomy, and the art market is feeling the strain, as evidenced by the noticeable drop in transactions during the recent modern and contemporary...
Musée d’Orsay: Lucas Arruda meets Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet and Paul Cézanne
https://youtu.be/1UTkrdude1Q A whirlwind of greenery Suddenly, the world of contemporary art has been swept up in a whirlwind of greenery. Lucas Arruda (born in 1983), a Brazilian landscape painter known for his small-format works, has...
The Art of Tarek Atoui: Mapping Sounds from Milan to Marrakech
https://youtu.be/s67KWsuD478?si=SrBg1ctuvi4jrjz3 Musical memory Did you know that a 500-millisecond music fragment is enough to trigger a person’s memory? In the brain, music is etched more deeply than an oft repeated fact. That’s why, when we...
Paris: The First Major Exhibition Critical of AI
https://youtu.be/LC9adSdclLQ The critique of criticism If art criticism consists in judging the work of artists, then AI criticism consists in examining the harm done by machines that appear to be creative. In Paris, the Jeu de Paume is...
New York: The $70 Million Giacometti Flop and the Rise of Women Artists
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...
From Notre Dame to the Venice Bienniale of Architecture, Bas Smets, The Belgian Who Recognizes the Intelligence of Trees
https://youtu.be/Sbn4I8oLnis?si=9t29EjfqRTQmc3KF Trees communicate and move The time has come to fundamentally reconsider our relationship with nature. If you believe that trees don’t communicate or move, you’re mistaken. That’s what Italian...
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...
Do You Know Marguerite, Matisse’s Daughter and Favorite Model?
A single face https://youtu.be/9mD4F33pn-E A long journey centered around a single face. Imagine this: Between 1901 and 1924 alone, Henri Matisse completed more than one hundred portraits of Marguerite (1894-1982), his eldest child. Matisse...
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...