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...
All the sublime lights of Matisse are in Basel at Fondation Beyeler
https://youtu.be/G3Dq9D7vIK0 Restless spirit When Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the son of a grain merchant, presented himself at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1892, the man who would go on to become one of the greatest painters of the 20th...
Jean Fautrier: Bargain prices at a Paris auction for one of the modern geniuses of French painting
Profession of silent things The genius of artists lies in their ability to give form to the unspeakable. In this regard, the famous 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin found the right expression when he said, "I, who make a profession of...
Caillebotte, “the man who loved men” in Paris before Chicago and Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/nrAm83D8B-E Hot topics Museums and art historians, despite their classical appearance, nowadays tend to focus on “hot topics”, in other words, art that expresses current concerns in an effort to address past injustices . Often...
Wesselmann, the Pop artist who painted in 3D
https://youtu.be/rZJlJ75b7tc Backwards and forwards This is how the avant-garde works: in order to move forwards, it looks backwards. To allow their creation to grow and bear fruit, artists use the work of their elders as a catalyst. It was in...
Paris: the colossal impact of Art Basel at the Grand Palais
Grand-Palais effect There is an “Art Basel effect” within the art market, or in other words, how an entire city can be transformed over a few days by a massive influx of art professionals but also art fans, who come expecting the best in...
Tarsila do Amaral: the Brazilian modernist genius is back in Paris
https://youtu.be/6OJ13CLW4i4?si=dJ1psKl41Ee9yw79 A Brazilian woman Regardless of the strength of her talent, this painter exhibited at least two handicaps for her time: she was a woman - the weaker sex in art - and Brazilian, therefore far...
Kengo Kuma and Leonor Antunes reinvent the space of a museum, the CAM Gulbenkian in Lisbon
Fabulous collections The Gulbenkian name is globally synonymous with fabulous collections. It first belonged to an Armenian businessman, Calouste being his first name (1869-1955), who managed at one time to obtain a 5% share of all oil...
Van Gogh was not a cursed artist. An intense exhibition at Orsay
https://youtu.be/Spvn1Ne8TKM?si=1DowF-U7LebnxhR8 An extraordinary exhibition at Orsay The Musée d’Orsay is presenting an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the last days of Vincent Van Gogh when he was living near Doctor Gachet in Auvers sur...
Abu Dhabi: a creative fair in collaboration with the Louvre AD and the future Guggenheim
Supported by the state It’s the only fair of its kind: a commercial show that’s entirely supported by the state, as a cultural event in its own right. Abu Dhabi Art, which features 80 exhibitors from 33 countries, is an event that has existed...