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...
Giacometti, Fontana, Cézanne…The Season’s Treasures in a Market Under Self-examination
Uncertainty What value do we place on art in times of immense uncertainty? Will Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculptures now be seen as safe havens? Or will they be cast aside due to income losses, especially on the stock market? These...
Centre Pompidou, Suzanne Valadon, Spiritual Mother of Alice Neel
https://youtu.be/pqnNVOd4QII Model for Toulouse-Lautrec Art history remembers her first and foremost as a model, who posed during several years for illustrious painters like Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de...
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...
Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum in New York: A Manifesto of “Blood Memories”
https://youtu.be/jTWVZ1gDQsI Human obsession Dance is a human obsession that social media has taken up in extraordinary ways: It’s one of the more heartening trends that spread on the new platforms. Young and old, professional and...
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...
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...