To travel gloriously “What is the good of moving when a man can travel so gloriously sitting in a chair?” The great decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans offers a good description of the state of immobility conducive to savouring one’s...
A welcome revolution driven by Macron: a Kanak curator is the new head of the Musée du Quai Branly
https://youtu.be/XE0qmphievc The end of colonial ruls Even before the world was put on hold due to the arrival of a highly contagious virus, our society was already experiencing a profound shift in values. A number of countries that were...
Oceania at Quai Branly: A visual punch in the face
Spiritual beauty It’s like a visual punch in the face. A beauty that is both powerful and spiritual. The Oceania exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly, which has come from the Royal Academy in London, is quite possibly one of the most beautiful currently on...
African Art: the hands of the greatest artists are at last beginning to be identified and their works presented at auction
The world of African art collecting has been rocked by an announcement made by Emmanuel Macron on 23 November. Following the submission of a report on the restitution of artworks to Africa, the president of the French Republic has decided to return 26 works requested...
Dada Africa: The show which speaks about Tribal art, the Dada movement and the birth of performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ovEJCxnmw Western modernity has been greatly influenced by tribal art: this is nothing new. It is common to see African masks alongside cubist pieces and other modern artworks, as is the case in the excellent Derain...
Pablo Picasso: an exhibition reveals his bewitching primitive statues
Magisterial, beautiful and comprehensively documented. ' Primitive Picasso' at the Musée du Quai Branly is pieced together like a police investigation and questions commonly held assumptions about the greatest painter of the 20th century,Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Or...