https://youtu.be/nQP6SzCMsGM?si=m-P4w3ULbJUfj1EB Worst enemies of humanity If you think that art is frivolous or that the concerns of the avant-garde are trivial, you should know that, before you, the worst enemies of humanity in the 20th...
Hamish Bowles in Marrakech: The Magical Charge of Yves Saint Laurent’s Couture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBBr4LFLL0 Objects of memory When it comes to ancient African art, the idea of an immaculate object is meaningless. They are works that bear the traces of experience, of ritual, of hands passing over...
Mark Bradford in Berlin: What You See is Not What You Think It Is
https://youtu.be/UBykyt766Js?si=uzKRGMcUMBR7jSOz The roots At the root of art, you’ll find the roots of the artist. Many artists hold fast to their roots and their early struggles, transforming these experiences into creative fuel. Mark...
Fondation Cartier: the Dazzling Olga de Amaral. When the Canvas becomes the Artwork
https://youtu.be/jNxVe4K8ttg Challenging the easel Here, what constitutes the very substance of the canvas becomes the artwork by itself. Since the 1920s and the advent of the Bauhaus movement, it has been officially agreed upon that a...
Nan Goldin in Berlin: A Great Artist Loses Steam
https://youtu.be/YD5pYQiT1D4?si=ILLi5ZhibqJP6aPN Great artist A “great artist.” When a painter, photographer or sculptor is associated with this label, it’s because they gained recognition by inventing their own universe. The American artist...
Paris :The Unexpected Union of Markus Lüpertz and Aristide Maillol
https://youtu.be/fhKLQQAXlN0?si=Vrsb39QNWStT0bb6 Markus Lüpertz Just as gifted artists push us to look differently at life itself, they also help us see the art of others in a new light. Such is the case of Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941), a...
Guggenheim New York: 1912 — When Paris Turned Painting into Magic Circles
https://youtu.be/-_9MYKJa9XM?si=uNFHeFS-xmGDFuM9 Paris: creative effervescence A nest teeming with artists: Paris was, for nearly a century up until the Second World War, the global epicenter of an unusually creative effervescence. From Camille...
Chiharu Shiota at the New Grand Palais: She Uses Kilometers of Thread For Healing
https://youtu.be/oh2poy5-aJw Healing Artists possess a precious ability: they can heal themselves through their work. Take Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972). She explains that when she decided to settle in Berlin—where she still lives...
London:The Making of Bacon’s Portraits like Real Life Pictures of Dorian Gray
https://youtu.be/4w_LrhEf9IE?si=hWT73BQgiHIRM_-E National portrait gallery There’s no better institution than the National Portrait Gallery in London to host a Francis Bacon (1909–1992) exhibition. Firstly, because this extraordinary painter...
Max Hollein and the Transformations Shaking Up the Metropolitan Museum
Immense ambitions It is a cultural beacon in the United States. It is also the torchbearer of encyclopedic museums worldwide, in competition with the Louvre for the title of world’s greatest museum. This institution housing over 2 million works...
Hilma af Klint in Bilbao: The Gehry Effect that Turns a Museum into a Temple
Klimt or Klint? There are two kinds of modern art enthusiasts. Those who, upon hearing the name Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), assume it to be a typo for a relative of Gustav Klimt, the famous Austrian painter. And the others, fewer in number, who...
Art Basel Miami Beach: Tremors of the Post-Election Market
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...