Definite slowdown At TEFAF Maastricht, which brings together 271 galleries from 21 countries from March 15 to 20, 2025, dealers readily admit: The market is experiencing a definite slowdown, outside of truly exceptional pieces. And so, they are...
Centre Pompidou-Metz: Escaping the Current Western Order According to Manuel Borja-Villel
https://youtu.be/g0nKm0D89oI Manuel Borja -Villel https://youtu.be/Vg5B8EyEbfs In times of uncertainty, alongside the shouting oracles from the world of economics, strategy and politics, artistic minds are venturing their own alternative...
ARCO Madrid: Selling for Less, to Sell More
Not in a buying mood Amid global upheavals, even the wealthiest collectors are not in a buying mood. So, what can be done in a rather sluggish contemporary art market? Two strategies can be observed amongst the world's most powerful galleries....
Is It a Mountain or a Mathematical Curve? AI and Generative Art: Pioneering Works Up for Auction
Artificial intelligence Through March 5, Christie’s is hosting an online-only sale that began on February 20, featuring 34 works of art produced exclusively using artificial intelligence. This unprecedented auction, titled “Augmented...
Backstage at the Pritzker Prize, or How to Become a “Starchitect”
https://youtu.be/JNewZIS3RjU?si=uHz98K2vdQkVb176 The Nobel of Architecture Every year at the beginning of March, a piece of news makes waves across the globe: the announcement of that year’s recipient of the Pritzker Prize. In common parlance,...
Musée Picasso, Paris: What Was Once Called “Degenerate Art”
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...