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...
Monet at the Courtauld Gallery: It was in the London fog that the last water lilies were born
https://youtu.be/GdhpcQyKQSQ?si=yGQ_hc1rmrktMve8 Lightbulb moments In the lives of artists there are major creative lightbulb moments, the fruit of their diligent research which, from one day to the next, opens up new horizons. In the...
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...
The entire studio of a surrealist at auction: Clovis Trouille
Noticed by Aragon and Dali Imagine an artist who was noticed from 1930 by the poet Louis Aragon and the painter Salvador Dali. He would later join the surrealist group of André Breton. Imagine a painter whose body of work would be entirely made...
In the Parisian galleries ahead of Art Basel Paris
Paris is on full view At a time when Paris is on full view to the world following the Olympic Games and ahead of Art Basel Paris, which is taking place for the first time at the Grand Palais, French gallerists are redoubling their ambitions...
A single Caravaggio makes it worth the trip: the Borghese collection is in Paris
https://youtu.be/5XOitu1I8ag?si=x5wNqG6lvNwM3Yov It’s an image of a young man. He’s depicted in three quarter view, having taken off his shirt to reveal his robust shoulders. As though offering up another gift to the viewer, in his arms he...
A different idea of the territory. In the land of Edouard Glissant
Speaking of nations Land, territory, country. In living memory, from the United States to the Middle East, the Mediterranean to the Channel, politicians have always had on the tips of their tongues these words that speak of nations, of...