https://youtu.be/QQDpTPz3CFM Self-portraits For a few years now her very dark self-portraits, in black and white, depicting endless variations on the image of an artist who accessorizes her apparitions with the aid of objects from daily life,...
Louvre: a grandiose exhibition on the objects of Chardin, Rembrandt, Goya, Van Gogh, Dali…
https://youtu.be/43obYNEbLSc Like good old days At the Louvre you’d think we were back in the good old days before Covid: mass tourism has resurfaced with its crowds and queues under the Pyramid, but we’ve also seen the return of an extremely...
Dialogue between the Kramlich video collection and Caravaggisti paintings
https://youtu.be/HOlBNRU1ojM Western artistic virtuosity At the beginning of the 17th century, at a time when the Netherlands was one of the epicentres of western artistic virtuosity, a group of Dutch painters had the bright idea to embark upon...
Monet / Mitchell at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an immersion in pleasure
https://youtu.be/42LTjqCHHVw Obsessions Art history shows us that, regardless of the era, sometimes artists can find one another through certain obsessions. This autumn the Louis Vuitton Foundation looks at a textbook case of how two...
Donatello: the inventor of Renaissance sculpture. An exceptional exhibition in Florence
Exceptional men In the words of Vasari, the first biographer of the Renaissance talents: “All great artist evade historians’ classification. They are first and foremost exceptional men (…) Among these unclassifiables, Donatello is one of the...
The Lady and the Unicorn is once again on view in Paris and the Middle Ages are making a comeback among contemporary artists
https://youtu.be/asQ4IeoicJI Revisiting the past Each era has its own way of revisiting the past. In the 19th century, from the 1830s onwards, France developed a certain passion for the gothic style and all its expressions, while Victor Hugo...
Art Basel is almost back to normal and contemporary art continues to be very, very expensive
Turbulent times In these turbulent times for the economy, geopolitics, public health, and society, you might be surprised to learn that contemporary art prices are at an all-time high. Within this context we see the opening of Art Basel from 16...
Guggenheim Bilbao: what is the relationship between contemporary American sculptor Richard Serra and neo-impressionist French painter Georges Seurat?
https://youtu.be/5Im2OwRQnvA The meaning of the work “The meaning is what you bring to the work.” When I interviewed Richard Serra (born in 1938) in 2008 about his monumental installation at the Grand Palais in Paris called “Promenade”,...
Revolution in the museums: NFTs are now being exhibited in major institutions
https://youtu.be/yKeXf_Prlec Once reticent So far the institutions have been reticent. But now there are three serious museums exhibiting the work of two very prominent digital artists working with NFTs. Reminder Let’s remind ourselves that...
Venice Biennale: war, women and children first. A very dense journey through the biggest contemporary art exhibition in the world
In keeping with the times The Venice Biennale 2022 has never before been so in keeping with the times. Firstly because the vast majority of it is dedicated to women, the half of the global population demanding their rights with increasing...
Michael Armitage in Madrid before Basel: beauty makes the social message even more powerful
https://youtu.be/PW4IZ8UlY70 Opulent It’s an opulent kind of painting. Contrasting and shimmering hues, shapes arranged in spirals seemingly the product of reflections or anamorphoses. And these blurred representations, which even seem to have...
The modern and contemporary art market in four works plus comments from the buyer of the NFT for 28.9 million dollars
Strong on all fronts In New York, the sales of modern and contemporary art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which have been unusually spread over two weeks (1), take the pulse of the market as the world gradually starts to come out of confinement....